The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 and 23 S
Author
Melo, Marcelo R. S.
Author
Nunan, Gustavo W. A.
Author
Braga, Adriana C.
Author
Costa, Paulo A. S.
text
Zootaxa
2009
2234
1
20
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.190386
2d3519b8-8a78-40de-a505-6edb799990cc
1175-5326
190386
Bathyuroconger vicinus
(Vaillant 1888)
(
Fig.2
F)
Material examined.
Eight specimens, 720.0–886.0 mm TL:
MNRJ
26811 (2, 797.0–840.0 mm), T, E-507;
MNRJ
26812 (1, 752.0 mm), T, E-506;
MNRJ
26813 (4, 720.0–752.0 mm), T, E-522;
MNRJ
26814 (1, 886.0 mm), T, E-523.
Distribution.
Bathyuroconger vicinus
is being reported for the first time in the WSA. It was described from several sites off the west coast of Africa and the
Cape Verde
Islands, and is also known to have a wide distribution in the tropical eastern Atlantic from
Cape Verde
to
Angola
, throughout the tropical western Atlantic from the Gulf of
Mexico
through the Caribbean to the northern coast of South
America
and the Indo- Pacific, from
South Africa
to Hawaii (
Uyeno
et al.
1983
;
Castle 1986a
;
Smith 1989b
;
Reiner 1996
;
Smith 1999
;
Smith 2002
).