Nettastoma melanura Rafinesque 1810

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 : 9

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Material examined. 17 specimens, 412.0–724.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26817 (4, 505.0–724.0 mm), T, E- 503; MNRJ 26818 (1, 522.0 mm), T, E- 541; MNRJ 26819 (1, 507.0 mm), T, E- 518; MNRJ 26820 (1, 637.0 mm), T, E- 499; MNRJ 26821 (5, 523.0–650.0 mm), T, E- 517; MNRJ 26822 (1, 481.0 mm), T, E- 543; MNRJ 26823 (4, 412.0–653.0 mm), T, E- 502.

Distribution. Nettastoma melanura was described from Sicily, and is also known from the Mediterranean Sea and the tropical Atlantic. In the eastern Atlantic, it is recorded from Portugal to the Gulf of Guinea; in the western Atlantic, from the east coast of Florida, USA, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, to southern Brazil ( Figueiredo et al. 2002; Smith 1989 c).

References

Figueiredo, J. L, Santos, A. P., Yamaguti, N., Bernardes, R. A. & Rossi-Wongtschowski, C. L. B. (2002) Peixes da Zona Economica Exclusiva da Regiao Sudeste - Sul do Brasil: Levantamento com Rede de Meia-Agua. Edusp, Sao Paulo, 242 pp.

Smith, D. G. (1989 c) Family Nettastomatidae. In: Bohlke, E. B. (Ed.), Fishes of the Western North Atlantic, Pt 9, 1. Memoir Sears Foundation for Marine Research 1 (9), New Haven, pp. 568 - 612.

Figures

FIGURE 3. (A) Nemichthys scolopaceus (MNRJ 26839, 623.0 mm); (B) Hoplunnis similis (USU 0 1327, 305.0 mm); (C) Nettastoma melanura (MNRJ 26820, 637.0 mm); (D) Venefica cf. procera (MNRJ 26799, 640.0 mm); (E) Venefica sp. 1 (MNRJ 26808, 992.0 mm); (F) Venefica sp. 2 (MNRJ 26809, 494.0 mm); (G) Serrivomer schmidti (MNRJ 26842, 423.0 mm); (H) Stemonidium hypomelas (MNRJ 26838, 267.0 mm); (I) Atractodenchelys phrix (MNRJ 26829, 300.0 mm); (J) Diastobranchus capensis (MNRJ 26783, 642.0 mm); (K) Dysommina rugosa (MNRJ 27126, 242.0 mm); (L) Histiobranchus cf. australis (USU 0 1303, 559.0 mm).