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Nettastomatidae (Duckbill eels)
Etymology: Facciolella: Latin, diminutive of falx, falcis = sickle (Ref. 45335); karrerae: Named in honor of Dr. Christine Karrer, Hamburg, in recognition of her contributions to the knowledge of Anguilliformes of the western Indian Ocean and her studies on deep-sea fishes of the Red Sea of the Senckenberg-Museum.
Eponymy: Dr Luigi Facciolà (1851–1943) was an Italian physician and ichthyologist who was the first to recognise and describe the Witch-Eel genus (1911) but in doing so used a preoccupied name (Nettastomella). [...] Dr Christine Karrer is a German biologist and ichthyologist at the Zoologisches Museum der Universität Hamburg. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 700 - 2000 m (Ref. 40802). Deep-water
Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 36.1 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 40802)
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Probably inhabiting holes found on soft sea-bottom.
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Klausewitz, W., 1995. Deep water and deep-sea fishes of the Red Sea. XIX. Description of a new species of the deep-sea eel genus Facciolella (Pisces: Osteichthyes: Anguilliformes: Nettastomatidae). Senckenbergiana marit. 26(1/2):45-50. (Ref. 40802)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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