Bathycongrus vicinalis ( Garman 1899)

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

Bathycongrus vicinalis ( Garman 1899)

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Material examined. Three specimens, 286.0–323.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26830 (1, 299.0 mm), T, E-502; MNRJ 26831 (1, 323.0 mm), T, E-534; USU 0 1251 (1, 286.0 mm), MD, 53 CB 92.

Distribution. Bathycongrus vicinalis is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from Cuba, and is also known from Florida, USA to off the Amazon River mouth, in Northern Brazil ( Smith 1989b). USU 0 1251 was reported by Séret and Andreata (1992) as A. perturbator .

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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).