Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe 1843)

Melo, Marcelo R. S., Braga, Adriana C., Nunan, Gustavo W. A. & Costa, Paulo A. S., 2010, On new collections of deep-sea Gadiformes (Actinopterygii: Teleostei) from the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 ° and 23 ° S, Zootaxa 2433, pp. 25-46 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.194741
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6199545
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scientific name	Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe 1843)
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Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe 1843) View in CoL

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Material examined. 42 specimens: MNRJ 26929 (1, 351.0 mm), T, D-464; MNRJ 26882 (1, 460.0 mm), T, D-502; MNRJ 26989 (1, 251.0 mm), T, E-510; MNRJ 26990 (2, 219.0–428.0 mm), T, E-502; MNRJ 30638 (1, 554.0 mm), T, E-503; MNRJ 30432 (1, 443.0 mm), T, E-498; MNRJ 30433 (6, 340.0–440.0 mm), T, E- 541; MNRJ 30434 (1, 528.0 mm), T, E-541; MNRJ 30435 (1, 449.0 mm), T, E-518; MNRJ 30436 (7, 348.0– 468.0 mm), T, E-534; MNRJ 30437 (1, 533.0 mm), T, E-517; MNRJ 30438 (1, damaged, ca. 400.0 mm), T, E- 517; MNRJ 30470 (3, 425.0–502.0 mm), T, E-546; MNRJ 30471 (3, 420.0–500.0 mm), T, E-499; MNRJ 30472 (3, 371.0–543.0 mm), T, E-503; MNRJ 30473 (2, 431.0–523.0 mm), T, E-503; MNRJ 30474 (4, 388.0– 458.0 mm), T, E-521; MNRJ 30475 (2, 371.0–543), T, E-543; MNRJ 30638 (1, 554.0 mm), E-503.

Distribution. Collected from off Bahia, Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, at depths from 457 to 822 m. Malacocephalus laevis was described from off Madeira, and is known from the tropical Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans (Cohen et al. 1990; Geistdoerfer 1990; Menezes & Figueiredo 2003).