Dysomma longirostrum

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| species = longirostrum

| authority = Chen & Mok, 2001

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Dysomma longirostrum is an eel in the family Synaphobranchidae (cutthroat eels).[http://www.fishbase.org/summary/Dysomma-longirostrum.html Dysomma longirostrum] at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Chen Yu-Yun and Michael Hin-Kiu Mok in 2001.Chen, Y.-Y. and H.-K. Mok, 2001 [ref. 25465] A new synaphobranchid eel, Dysomma longirostrum (Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae), from the northeastern coast of Taiwan. Zoological Studies v. 40 (no. 2): 79-83. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling eel which is known from Taiwan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 100–150 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 19.6 centimetres.

The species epithet refers to the eel's long snout.