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Pseudophichthys splendens Lea 1913
Description
Pseudophichthys splendens (Lea, 1913)
(Fig. 2 H)
Material examined. One specimen, 277.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26828 (1, 277.0 mm), T, E-498.
Distribution. Pseudophichthys splendens was described from the eastern North Atlantic, and is widespread in the tropical Atlantic. In the eastern Atlantic, it is known from the Azores to the Gulf of Guinea (Smith 1990); in the western Atlantic it is known from the east coast of Florida, USA, throughout the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Guyana to about 30º S off the Atlantic coast of South America (Uyeno et al. 1983; Smith 1989b; Smith 2002).
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 8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190386
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Congridae
- Genus
- Pseudophichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lea
- Species
- splendens
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pseudophichthys splendens Lea, 1913 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009
References
- Smith, D. G. (1990) Congridae. In: Quero, J. C., Hureau, J. C., Karrer, C., Post A. & Saldanha L. (Eds.), Check-list of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA), Vo l. 1. JNICT, Lisbon, SEI, Paris, and UNESCO, Paris, pp. 156 - 167.
- Uyeno, T., Matsuura, K. & Fujii, E. (1983) Fishes Trawled off Suriname and French Guiana. Japan Marine Fishery Resource Research Center, Tokyo, pp. 108.
- 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.
- 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.