Avocettina acuticeps (Regan 1916)

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 : 8

Avocettina acuticeps (Regan 1916)

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Material examined. Four specimens, 235.0–748.0 mm TL: MNRJ 27107 (1, 748.0 mm), T, E-522; MNRJ 27111 (1, 536.0 mm); MNRJ 27112 (1, 235.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003020801; MNRJ 27113, (1, 249.0 mm), T, E-524.

Distribution. Avocettina acuticeps was described from a leptocephalus collected off southern Brazil, 21°00’ S, 37°50’ W ( Nielsen & Smith 1978).

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).