Bathyuroconger vicinus Vaillant 1888
Description
Bathyuroconger vicinus (Vaillant 1888)
(Fig.2 F)
Material examined. Eight specimens, 720.0–886.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26811 (2, 797.0–840.0 mm), T, E-507; MNRJ 26812 (1, 752.0 mm), T, E-506; MNRJ 26813 (4, 720.0–752.0 mm), T, E-522; MNRJ 26814 (1, 886.0 mm), T, E-523.
Distribution. Bathyuroconger vicinus is being reported for the first time in the WSA. It was described from several sites off the west coast of Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, and is also known to have a wide distribution in the tropical eastern Atlantic from Cape Verde to Angola, throughout the tropical western Atlantic from the Gulf of Mexico through the Caribbean to the northern coast of South America and the Indo- Pacific, from South Africa to Hawaii (Uyeno et al. 1983; Castle 1986a; Smith 1989b; Reiner 1996; Smith 1999; Smith 2002).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Congridae
- Genus
- Bathyuroconger
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Vaillant
- Species
- vicinus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bathyuroconger vicinus Vaillant, 1888 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009
References
- Uyeno, T., Matsuura, K. & Fujii, E. (1983) Fishes Trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, pp. 108.
- Castle, P. H. J. (1986 a) Family No. 40: Congridae. In: Smith, M. M. & Heemstra, P. C. (Eds.), Smiths' Sea Fishes. Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 161 - 165.
- 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.
- Reiner, F. (1996) Catalogo dos peixes do Arquipelago de Cabo Verde. Publicacoes avulsas do IPIMAR, Lisboa, 339 pp.
- Smith, D. G. (1999) Congridae. In: Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.), FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 3. Batoid Fishes, Chimaeras and Bony Fishes part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, pp. 1397 - 2068.
- Smith, D. G. (2002) Congridae. In: Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.), FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2. Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, pp. 743 - 750.