Halosaurus guentheri Goode & Bean, 1896

Fermon, Yves, Bailly, Nicolas, Cardiec, Floriane, Causse, Romain, Chartrain, Emmanuel, Chirio, Laurent, Bruyne, Godefroy De, Deynat, Pascal, Hopkins, Carl D., Lamboj, Anton, Mennesson, Marion I., Beh, Jean-Hervé Mve, Paugy, Didier, Sidlauskas, Brian, Sullivan, John P., Weghe, Jean-Pierre Van De, Vigliotta, Thomas R. & Zee, Jouke Van Der, 2022, An annotated checklist of the fishes of Gabon, Cybium 46 (2), pp. 2-3 : 112

Halosaurus guentheri Goode & Bean, 1896

Occurrence: questionable

Maximum length: 60 cm TL

Water type: marine

Environment: bathydemersal

Depth range: 550-1600 m

Migration: unknown

IUCN status: LC – Least concern (2015)

Source: preserved

Distribution and remarks: East Atlantic: known from Western Sahara to Mauritania, and the Canary Islands. There is also a CAS museum record of this species from “off Ghana ” and a USNM specimen from “off Gabon ”, a probable misidentification.