Hymenocephalus billsam Marshall & Iwamoto 1973

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 : 35

Hymenocephalus billsam Marshall & Iwamoto 1973

( Fig. 3 D)

Material examined. 35 specimens: MNRJ 26940 (3, 98.8–119.0 mm), T, E-503; MNRJ 27010 (2, 76.0–111.0 mm), T, E-510; MNRJ 27011 (2, 81.0–91.0 mm), T, E-511; MNRJ 27012 (6, 89.0–99.0 mm), T, E-543; MNRJ 27014 (4, 90.0–118.0 mm), T, E-499; MNRJ 27015 (4, 116.0–135.0 mm), T, E-517; MNRJ 27016 (4, 63.0– 108.0 mm), T, E-522; MNRJ 27119 (10, 76.0–118.0 mm), T, D-538.

Distribution. Collected from off Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, at depths from 233 to 1275 m. The type locality of Hymenocephalus billsam is off Puerto Rico, but the paratypes were collected from several parts of the Gulf of Mexico and southern Brazil ( Marshall & Iwamoto 1973b; Menezes & Figueiredo 2003a). It was recorded in Argentina by Cousseau (1993).

Figures

FIGURE 3. (A) Coryphaenoides thelestomus * (MNRJ 27044, 441.0 mm); (B) Haplomacrourus nudirostris (MNRJ 26880, 319.0 mm); (C) Hymenocephalus cf. aterrimus (MNRJ 27013, 92.1 mm); (D) Hymenocephalus billsam (MNRJ 26940 98.8 mm); (E) Macrosmia phalacra (MNRJ 26891, 105.6 mm); (F) Macrouroides inflaticeps * (MNRJ unknown, ca. 200.0 mm); (G) Malacocephalus laevis (MNRJ 30474, 390.0 mm); (H) Malacocephalus occidentalis (MNRJ 30476, 305.0 mm); (I) Malacocephalus okamurai (MNRJ 26988, 300.0 mm); (J) Nezumia atlantica (MNRJ 26922, 326.0 mm); (K) Nezumia suilla (MNRJ 26887, 235.0 mm); (L) Sphagemacrurus grenadae (MNRJ 26879, 208.0 mm). Asterisk indicates pictures taken on board of the collecting vessel, prior to the specimen fixation.