Material examined. - MMF 43114, 390 mm TL, 16°35’N 22°54’W, Baía de Santa Maria, Sal Island, cruise Cabo Verde 2005‑06, caught at surface over a substrate of sand and pebbles with green (Avrainvillea sp.) and red algae and rhodoliths at 13 m depth, 21 Jul. 2012, hand net.

Additional material. - Another specimen was caught at 15°26’N 23°27’W, Bancona Bank, NE of Santiago Island, cruise Taliarte 2003‑08, caught at surface over a hard substrate at 35‑40 m depth, 17 Aug. 2003, hand net.

Remarks. - A tropical demersal eastern Atlantic species found burrowing in coarse sand along rocky coasts. Known from the Canary Islands and Western Sahara (Leiby, 1990), the Cape Verdes (Franca and Vasconcelos, 1962; Blache and Cadenat, 1971; Brito et al., 1999) and São Tomé Island (Afonso et al., 1999) to Annobon Island, Equatorial Guinea (Leiby, 1990). Information on its bathymetric distribution is scarce. In the Canaries it has been found between 3 and 15 m (Brito et al., 2002), and recently between 1 and 25 m (in sea grass meadows) (Espino et al., 2007; Arturo Boyra, pers. com. 2014). Our specimens were caught while actively swimming at surface at night, over 13 to 35 m depth, probably due to the large number of small organisms concentrated around the vessel, attracted by its bright lights.