* Macrocephenchelys brevirostris (Chen & Weng, 1967) ⋏ffiAEdaª Rhynchoconger brevirostris Chen & Weng, 1967:54, fig. 40 (type locality: Tungkang, southwestern Taiwan). Chen, 1969:132; Shen 1984a:113; Chen & Yu, 1986:253; Shen et al., 1993:117. Macrocephenchelys brevirostris (Chen & Weng, 1967): Smith in Randall & Lim, 2000:586; Karmovskaya, 2004:S24; Shao et al., 2008:239; Ho et al. 2010:23, table 1; Ho & Shao, 2011:24, table 1. Remarks. This is a common deepwater species collected by bottom trawls, more abundant off southwestern than in northeastern Taiwan. It is likely a senior synonym of Macrocephenchelys soela Castle, 1990, described from Australia. According to Karmovskaya (2004), this species also occurs in the Philippines and New Caledonia.

Published as part of Ho, Hsuan-Ching, Smith, David G., Mccosker, John E., Hibino, Yusuke, Loh, Kar-Hoe, Tighe, Kenneth A. & Shao, Kwang-Tsao, 2015, Annotated checklist of eels (orders Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes) from Taiwan, pp. 140-189 in Zootaxa 4060 (1) on page 148, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4060.1.16, http://zenodo.org/record/243651