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The new species is distinguished from congeners in having the following combination of the characters: anus positioned anterior to middle of total length, pre\u2010anal length 40.0%\u201343.1% of TL; short wedge\u2010shaped pointed vomerine teeth patch, three or four rows in anterior portion, tapering posteriorly with four uniserial teeth; supraorbital canal with four or five pores; pre\u2010dorsal vertebrae 9\u201310; pre\u2010anal vertebrae 49\u201353; total vertebrae 141\u2013146; body greenish\u2010brown in colour; extremities of the lower jaw with minute dark pigmentation patches before the rictus, bicoloured pectoral fin. <jats:italic>A. indicum<\/jats:italic> shares few characters with the Indian water species, <jats:italic>Ariosoma gnanadossi<\/jats:italic>, but readily differs from the latter in having more pre\u2010anal vertebrae (49\u201353 <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 47 in <jats:italic>A. gnanadossi<\/jats:italic>); fewer lateral\u2010line pores (130\u2013137 <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 145); shorter tail (54.9%\u201357.9% TL <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 60.1% TL); smaller eye (15.1%\u201317.7% HL <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 19.2% HL); smaller interorbital width (11.8%\u201315.7% HL <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 18.2% HL); longer upper jaw (26.9%\u201330.2% HL <jats:italic>vs.<\/jats:italic> 19.2% HL). In addition, molecular analysis using partial mitochondrial COI gene suggests that <jats:italic>A. indicum<\/jats:italic> is genetically closer to <jats:italic>Ariosoma maurostigma<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Ariosoma melanospilos<\/jats:italic> with a divergence of 15.0% and 15.8%, respectively, and forms a well\u2010supported monophyletic clade.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1111\/jfb.15055","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,13]],"date-time":"2022-04-13T05:25:15Z","timestamp":1649827515000},"page":"1447-1454","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["<scp><i>Ariosoma indicum<\/i><\/scp> sp. nov., a new species of congrid eel (Anguilliformes: Congridae: Bathymyrinae) from the Indian waters"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"100","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4636-3056","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paramasivam","family":"Kodeeswaran","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"ICAR\u2010National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources  Lucknow India"},{"name":"Faulty of Fisheries Science Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies  Kochi India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3648-6607","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ayyathurai","family":"Kathirvelpandian","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICAR\u2010National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources  Lucknow India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8990-8311","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Smrutirekha","family":"Acharya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Estuarine Biology Regional Centre Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur\u2010on\u2010Sea  Ganjam India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0473-9166","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Swarup Ranjan","family":"Mohanty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Estuarine Biology Regional Centre Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur\u2010on\u2010Sea  Ganjam India"},{"name":"Environmental Science Laboratory, Department of Zoology Ravenshaw University  Cuttack India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3547-7039","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anil","family":"Mohapatra","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Estuarine Biology Regional Centre Zoological Survey of India, Gopalpur\u2010on\u2010Sea  Ganjam India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4842-9562","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thipramalai Thangappan Pillai","family":"Ajith Kumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICAR\u2010National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources  Lucknow India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1377-8597","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kuldeep Kumar","family":"Lal","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ICAR\u2010National Bureau of Fish Genetic Resources  Lucknow India"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,4,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_8_2_1","first-page":"191","article-title":"Studies on the conger eels of Japan. 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