Malacocephalus occidentalis Goode & Bean 1885

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

Malacocephalus occidentalis Goode & Bean 1885

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Material examined. 22 specimens: MNRJ 26877 ( 12, 267.0–348.0 mm), T, D- 464; MNRJ 26917 ( 2, 267.0– 391.0 mm), T, E- 534; MNRJ 26920 ( 1, 190.0 mm), T, E- 500; MNRJ 26991 ( 1, 340.0 mm), T, E- 503; MNRJ 26992 ( 3, 390.0–445.0 mm), T, E- 541; MNRJ 30476 ( 3, 305.0–402.0 mm), T, E- 546.

Distribution. Collected from off Bahia, Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro, at depths from 360 to 822 m. Malacocephalus occidentalis was described from off North Carolina, USA ( 35 ° 44 ’ N, 74 ° 51 ’ W), and is known from about 40 ° N to 40 ° S in the western Atlantic, and 30 ° N to 20 ° S in the eastern Atlantic (Cohen et al. 1990; Menezes & Figueiredo 2003 a).

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.