Nemichthys curvirostris Strömman 1896

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 : 8-9

Nemichthys curvirostris Strömman 1896

Material examined. Two specimens, 714.0–556.0 mm TL: MNRJ 32554 (2, 556.0–714.0 mm), T, E-523.

Distribution. Nemichthys curvirostris is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from the western North Atlantic, from off Puerto Rico and has a circumglobal distribution between 40o N and 50o S, but is rarely found in the western Pacific ( Nielsen and Smith 1978).

Remarks. Nemichthys curvirostris is being reported from a single lot with two specimens. Nielsen and Smith (1978) noticed that the distribution of N. curvirostris in the South Atlantic matches the collection stations made by the German R/V Walther Herwig in mid-Atlantic and that no other specimens were collected from off the coast of South America neither by that vessel nor other researchers. Menezes et al. (2003) reported N. scolopaceus from Northern Brazil, but referred to three lots (MCZ 61453, 86702, 147394) collected in the mid-Atlantic, outside Brazilian waters.