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Hoplunnis similis Smith 1989
Description
Hoplunnis similis Smith 1989
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Material examined. One specimen, 305.0 mm TL: USU 0 1327 (1, 305.0 mm), MD, 0 5 CP11.
Distribution. Hoplunnis similis was known from its type locality, in the Bahamas (20º53’N, 73º26’W), and from Florida, USA, Honduras and Nicaragua and southern Brazil (Castro & Bonecker 2004; Smith 1989c).
Remarks. USU 0 1327 was reported by Séret and Andreata (1992) as Facciolella oxyrhyncha; another lot of F. oxyrhyncha was listed by those authors (USU 01391), but was not found in the USU collection.
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 9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190386
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nettastomatidae
- Genus
- Hoplunnis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith
- Species
- similis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hoplunnis similis Smith, 1989 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 c) Family Nettastomatidae. 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. 568 - 612.
- 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.