Published December 31, 2009
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Atractodenchelys phrix Robins
Description
Atractodenchelys phrix Robins an Robins 1970
(Fig. 3 I)
Material examined. One specimen, 300.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26829 (1, 300.0 mm), T, E-534.
Distribution. Atractodenchelys phrix is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from the eastern Caribbean (11º36’ N, 62º52’ W) and is also known from the western Caribbean Sea, the Atlantic Ocean north of Puerto Rico to the coast of Florida (Robins & Robins 1989).
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 12, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190386
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Synaphobranchidae
- Genus
- Atractodenchelys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Robins
- Species
- phrix
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Robins, C. H. & Robins, C. R. (1989) Family Synaphobranchidae. 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. 207 - 253.