Bathyuroconger vicinus (Vaillant 1888)

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, Zootaxa 2234, pp. 1-20 : 7

Bathyuroconger vicinus (Vaillant 1888)

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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).

Figures

FIGURE 2. (A) Coloconger meadi (MNRJ 26833, 382.0 mm); (B) Acromycter perturbator (MNRJ 27114, 280.0 mm); (C) Ariosoma sp. (USU 0 0 998, 254.0 mm); (D) Bathycongrus dubius (MNHN 1989 - 352, 278.0 mm); (E) Bathycongrus vicinalis (MNRJ 26831, 323.0 mm); (F) Bathyuroconger vicinus (MNRJ 26812, 752.0 mm); (G) Gnathophis sp. (MNHN 1989 - 351, 277.0 mm); (H) Pseudophichthys splendens (MNRJ 26828, 277.0 mm); (I) Xenomystax congroides (MNRJ 26815, 768.0 mm); (J) Avocettina acuticeps (MNRJ 27111, 536.0 mm).