Xenomystax congroides Smith and Kanazawa 1989

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

Xenomystax congroides Smith and Kanazawa 1989

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Material examined. Three specimens, 316.0–768.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26815 (1, 768.0 mm), T, E-502; MNRJ 26816 (1, 491.0 mm), T, E-518; MNRJ 26851 (1, 316.0 mm), T, E-511.

Distribution. Xenomystax congroides is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from off Suriname, and was also known from the Atlantic coast of Florida, USA, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean to the mouth of the Amazon, in the northern coast of Brazil ( Smith 1989b).

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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).