Nettastoma melanura Rafinesque 1810

(Fig. 3 C)

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 1989c).