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Xenomystax congroides Smith and Kanazawa 1989
Description
Xenomystax congroides Smith and Kanazawa 1989
(Fig. 2 I)
Material examined. Three specimens, 316.0–768.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26815 (1, 768.0 mm), T, E-502; MNRJ 26816 (1, 491.0 mm), T, E-518; MNRJ 26851 (1, 316.0 mm), T, E-511.
Distribution. Xenomystax congroides is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from off Suriname, and was also known from the Atlantic coast of Florida, USA, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean to the mouth of the Amazon, in the northern coast of Brazil (Smith 1989b).
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
- Xenomystax
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith and Kanazawa
- Species
- congroides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xenomystax congroides and, 1989 sec. Melo, Nunan, Braga & Costa, 2009
References
- 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.