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Coloconger meadi Kanazawa 1957

Description

Coloconger meadi Kanazawa 1957

(Fig. 2 A)

Material examined. Three specimens, 341.0–382.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26833 (3, 341.0–382.0 mm), T, E-503.

Distribution. Coloconger meadi was previously known from its type locality in the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Caribbean, French Guiana, Suriname and WSA (Smith 1989a; Uyeno et al. 1983; Séret & Andreata 1992).

Notes

Published as part of Melo, Marcelo R. S., Nunan, Gustavo W. A., Braga, Adriana C. & Costa, Paulo A. S., 2009, The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 and 23 S, pp. 1-20 in Zootaxa 2234 on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190386

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Colocongridae
Genus
Coloconger
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Kanazawa
Species
meadi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Coloconger meadi Kanazawa, 1957 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009

References

  • Smith, D. G. (1989 a) Family Colocongridae. In: Bohlke, E. B. (Ed.), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Pt 9, 1. Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 1 (9), New Haven, pp. 413 - 419.
  • Uyeno, T., Matsuura, K. & Fujii, E. (1983) Fishes Trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, pp. 108.
  • Seret, B. & Andreata, J. V. (1992) Deep-sea fishes collected during the oceanographic cruise MD- 55 off Brazil (6 May - 2 June 1987). Cybium, 16, 81 - 100.