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Bathycongrus dubius Breder 1927

Description

Bathycongrus dubius (Breder 1927)

(Fig. 2 D)

Material examined. One specimen, 278.0 mm TL: MNHN 1989–352 (1, 278.0 mm), MD, 62 CB 104.

Distribution. Bathycongrus dubius was described from the Caribbean Sea off Colombia (12º16’N, 72º40’W), and is known from the western Atlantic from off Georgia, USA to Southern Brazil (Castro & Bonecker 2004; Smith 1989b; Menezes et al. 2003; 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 7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190386

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Congridae
Genus
Bathycongrus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Breder
Species
dubius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bathycongrus dubius Breder, 1927 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009

References

  • Castro, M. S. & Bonecker, A. C. T. (2004) Leptocephali collected off the eastern coast of Brazil (12 o - 23 o S). Zootaxa, 935, 1 - 28.
  • Smith, D. G. (1989 b) Family Congridae. 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. 460 - 567.
  • Menezes, N. A., Buckup, P. A., de Figueiredo, J. L. & Moura, R. L. (2003) Catalogo das especies de peixes marinhos do Brasil. Edusp, Sao Paulo, 160 pp.
  • 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.