Protanguilla palau

Familia: Protanguillidae
Genus: Protanguilla
Species:

Protanguilla palau Johnson, Ida & Sakaue, 2012

• Holotype: NSMT-P 98249
• Paratypes: CBM-ZF 12278 (1), 12279 (1); FSKU-P24231(1), P24232 (1); NSMT-P 98250 (1); USNM 396016 (2), 396051 (1), 396052 (1).
• Type locality: Underwater cave, western fringing reef of Ngemelis Island, Palau, depth 35 meters.

Note: Appeared first as Protoanguilla palau in electronic version (not nomenclaturally available, also would have been preoccupied) name changed to Protanguilla palau in hard copy version. Name changed because †Protoanguilla is preoccupied in fossil eels.

Etymology: Palau, where the type series was collected, a noun in apposition.

• Johnson, G.D., H. Ida, J. Sakaue, T. Sado, T. Asahida & M. Miya, 2012: A ‘living fossil’ eel (Anguilliformes: Protanguillidae, fam. nov.) from an undersea cave in Palau. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), 279 (1730): 934–943. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1289

• Springer, V.G. & Johnson, G.D. 2015. The Gill-Arch Musculature of Protanguilla, the Morphologically Most Primitive Eel (Teleostei: Anguilliformes), Compared with That of Other Putatively Primitive Extant Eels and Other Elopomorphs. Copeia 103(3): 595–620. DOI: 10.1643/CI-14-152 Reference page. 

• Protanguilla palau in Catalog of Fishes, Eschmeyer, W.N., Fricke, R. & van der Laan, R. (eds.) 2025. Catalog of Fishes electronic version.
• Protanguilla palau in FishBase,
  Froese, R. & Pauly, D. (eds.) 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication, www.fishbase.org, version 02/2024.
• Protanguilla palau – Taxon details on National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).
• Protanguilla palau in the World Register of Marine Species