Xenomystax congroides Smith and Kanazawa 1989
- Dataset
- The deep-sea Anguilliformes and Saccopharyngiformes (Teleostei: Elopomorpha) collected on the Brazilian continental slope, between 11 and 23 S
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Congridae
- genus
- Xenomystax
- species
- Xenomystax congroides
distribution
Distribution. Xenomystax congroides is being reported by the first time in the WSA. It was described from off Suriname, and was also known from the Atlantic coast of Florida, USA, throughout the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean to the mouth of the Amazon, in the northern coast of Brazil (Smith 1989 b).
materials_examined
Material examined. Three specimens, 316.0 – 768.0 mm TL: MNRJ 26815 (1, 768.0 mm), T, E- 502; MNRJ 26816 (1, 491.0 mm), T, E- 518; MNRJ 26851 (1, 316.0 mm), T, E- 511.