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Family Bolitaenidae
Genus Eledonella Verrill, 1884
1884. Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 144.
Type Species (monotypy) Eledonella pygmaea Verrill

Eledonella pygmaea Verrill, 1884

• 1884. Eledonella pygmaea Verrill, Trans. Conn. Acad. Sci., vol. 6, p. 145.
• 1949. Eledonella pygmaea Verrill: Thore. Dana Rep., 33, p. 39.

Thore (1949) recorded this species from New Zealand from a specimen obtained by the Dana Expedition and has presented a full account of its distribution, anatomy and general biology as far as this could be deduced from the Dana collections. The first specimen available for study in this country was obtained by the Zoology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, at their Station 85.

Locality: VUZ 85, 41° 47′ S. 175° 2′ E, south of Cape Palliser in c. 600 fathoms, over c. 800 fathoms.