Gnathophis

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

Gnathophis sp.

( Fig. 2 G)

Material examined. One specimen, 277.0 mm TL: MNHN 1989-351 (1, 277.0 mm), MD, 62 CB 103.

Remarks. Gnathophis sp. is known only from a single specimen identified earlier by Séret and Andreata (1992) as Gnathophis sp. aff. mystax (Delaroche 1809) . The number and pattern of lateral line pores are similar to Gnathophis bathytopos , with the second and the seventh to 13th pores elevated and a total of 39 pores to anal-fin origin, but it differs from G. bathytopos by having a pale stomach, and may represent an undescribed species (Smith pers. comm. 2005).

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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).