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Hymenocephalus aterrimus Gilbert 1905

Description

Hymenocephalus cf. aterrimus Gilbert 1905

(Fig. 3 C)

Material examined. One specimen: MNRJ 27013 (1, 92.1 mm), T, E-498.

Distribution. Collected from off Bahia, at depths from 614 to 629 m. Hymenocephalus aterrimus was described from off the Kauai Island, Hawaii. It is known to have a worldwide distribution in tropical regions of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (Iwamoto 1999; Iwamoto 2002); in the WSA, it was previously recorded from northeastern Brazil (3°22’ S, 37°49’ W) by Marshall and Iwamoto (1973b).

Notes

Published as part of Melo, Marcelo R. S., Braga, Adriana C., Nunan, Gustavo W. A. & Costa, Paulo A. S., 2010, On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 ° and 23 ° S, pp. 25-46 in Zootaxa 2433 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.194741

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References

  • Iwamoto, T. (1999) Order Gadiformes. In: Carpenter K. E. & Niem, V. H (Eds.) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 3. Batoid Fishes, Chimaeras and Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae), FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes, Rome, pp. 1986 - 1998.
  • Iwamoto, T. (2002) Macrouridae. In: Carpenter K. E. (Ed.) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2. Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae), FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5., Rome, pp. 601 - 1374.
  • Marshall, N. B. & Iwamoto, T. (1973 b) Genus Hymenocephalus Giglioli, 1882. In: Cohen, D. M., Marshall, N. B., Ebeling, A. W., Rosen, D. E., Iwamoto, T., Sonoda, P., McDowell, S. B., Weed II, W. H. & Woods, L. P. (Eds.) The fishes of Western North Atlantic. Memoirs Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Number One, Part Six, New Haven, pp. 601 - 612.