Myroconger compressus Gunther 1870
Description
Material examined. - MMF 41909, 606 mm TL, MMF 41910, 526 mm TL, MMF 41911, 390 mm TL, 16°15’N 23°05’W, Baía de Sal Rei, Boa Vista Island, 215 m, cruise Cabo Verde 2005‑06, sta. 22, 5 Jun. 2005, SFST.
Additional material. - 171 specimens, 303‑620 mm TL, caught between 104 and 905 m depth, from off São Vicente, Santa Luzia, Boa Vista, Santiago and Sal islands.
Remarks. - A tropical demersal species occurring in a few scattered localities of the eastern Atlantic: from St. Helena, and Dakar, Senegal (Smith, 1990), São Tomé and Príncipe (Smith, 1990; Afonso et al., 1999), the Cape Verde Islands (Brito et al., 1999; González et al., 2004; Menezes et al., 2004; González and Tariche, 2009), and the Vavilov Underwater Ridge (the eastern part of the Atlantic Ocean) (Parin et al., 2010). The present material was caught in both traps used (Tab. II). Their major presence in bottom traps (81%) confirms its demersal nature. Gonad examination revealed that the red eel is a gonochoristic species. The 620 mm TL specimen is apparently the largest ever recorded (538 mm TL: Smith, 1990).
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MMF
- Event date
- 2005-06-05
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-06-05
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Family
- Myrocongridae
- Genus
- Myroconger
- Species
- compressus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myroconger compressus Gunther, 1870 sec. González, Martins, Santana, Triay-Portella, Monteiro, García-Martín, Jiménez, González-Lorenzo, Pajuelo, Lorenzo & Biscoito, 2014
References
- SMITH D. G., 1990. - Myrocongridae. In: Check-List of the Fishes of the Eastern Tropical Atlantic (Clofeta), Vol. 1 (Quero J. C., Hureau J. C., Karrer C., Post A. & Saldanha L., eds), p. 149. Lisbon: JNICT; Paris: SEI; and Paris: UNESCO.
- AFONSO P., PORTEIRO F. M., SANTOS R. S., BARREIROS J. P., WORKS J. & WIRTZ P., 1999. - Coastal marine fishes of Sao Tome Island (Gulf of Guinea). Arquipelago - Life Mar. Sci., 17 (A): 65 - 92.
- BRITO A., HERRERA R., FALCON J. M., GARCIA-CHARTON J. A., BARQUIN J. & PEREZ-RUZAFA A., 1999. - Contribucion al conocimiento de la ictiofauna de las islas de Cabo Verde. Rev. Acad. Canar. Cienc., 11 (3 - 4): 27 - 41.
- GONZALEZ J. A., GARCIA-MEDEROS A. M., PEREZ-PENAL- VO J. A. et al. [13 authors], 2004. - Prospeccion con nasas para crustaceos y peces en aguas profundas de las Islas Cabo Verde. Resultados de la campana " Taliarte 2003 - 08 ". Inf. Tec. Inst. Canario Cienc. Mar., 11: 1 - 76.
- MENEZES G. M., TARICHE O., PINHO M. R., DUARTE P. N., FERNANDES A. & ABOIM M. A., 2004. - Annotated list of fishes caught by the R / V Arquipelago off the Cape Verde archipelago. Arquipelago - Life Mar. Sci., 21 A: 57 - 71.
- GONZALEZ J. A. & TARICHE O. (eds), 2009. - Um Olhar sobre a Biodiversidade marinha e bases para a sua Gestao sustentavel. Potenciais recursos pesqueiros de profundidade de Cabo Verde. 176 p. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Direccion General de Rela- ciones con Africa, Gobierno de Canarias.
- PARIN N. V., KUKUEV E. I. & PAKHORUKOV N. P., 2010. - Species composition, distribution, and behavior of Fish on the Vavilov Underwater Ridge (the Atlantic Ocean). J. Ichthyol., 50 (1): 12 - 19. [Original Russian text, published in Vopr. Ikhti- ologii, 2010, 50 (1): 16 - 23].