Acromycter perturbator (Parr 1932)

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 : 6-7

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Acromycter perturbator (Parr 1932) View in CoL

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Material examined. 60 specimens, 115.0–290.0 mm TL: MNRJ 27096 (2, 147.0–271.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003021301; MNRJ 27100 (1, 255.0 mm), T, D-502; MNRJ 27101 (3, 239.0–241.0 mm), T, D-504; M NR J 27102 View Materials (1, 267.0 m m), AG, AS TRO 2 0 0 3021403; M NRJ 27104 (1, 272. 0 m m), A G, ASTRO 2003021002; MNRJ 27105 (2, 267.0–290.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003020701; MNRJ 27108 (1, 221.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003020802; MNRJ 27109 (1, 187.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003082403; MNRJ 27110 (1, 269.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003020803; MNRJ 27114 (6, 224.0–282.0 mm, 1 cs), T, D-503; MNRJ 27115 (16, 186. 0–282.0 mm), AG, ASTRO 2003020703; MNRJ 27116 (9, 192.0–265.0 mm, 1 cs), AG, ASTRO 2003082704; USU 0 1402 (6, 234.0–107.0 mm), MD 55 CB 95; USU 0 1406 (4, 115.0–224.0 mm), MD, 43 CB 77; MNHN 1989-345 (1 of 3, 238.0 mm, x-rayed), MD, 43 CB 77; MNHN 1989-346 (1, 290.0 mm, x-rayed), MD, 44 CB 78; MNHN 1989-347 (2 of 6, 172.0–217.0 mm, x-rayed), MD, 55 CB 95; MNHN 1989-348 (1, 253.0 mm, x-rayed), MD, 58 CB 98; MNHN 1989-350 (1, 288.0 mm, x-rayed), MD, 65 CB 106.

Distribution. Acromycter perturbator was described from the Bahamas, and is also known from the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico and the WSA ( Smith 1989b; Séret & Andreata 1992).

References

Seret, B. & Andreata, J. V. (1992) Deep-sea fishes collected during the oceanographic cruise MD- 55 off Brazil (6 May - 2 June 1987). Cybium, 16, 81 - 100.

Smith, D. G. (1989 b) Family Congridae. 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. 460 - 567.

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).