Pisces, Ophidiiformes, Ophidiidae, Brotula barbata (Bloch & Schneider, 1801): first record off Ceará,northeastern Brazil

By

Paiva, Carolina Cerqueira De
Osório, Frederico Moreira
Jucá-Queiroz, Bruno
Lotufo, Tito Monteiro da Cruz

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2010-8-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

6

Series / Issue

Issue: 3

Pages

360--361

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/6.3.360

 

Abstract

Brotula barbata is recorded for the first time from Ceará, northeastern Brazil. The species was previously known in the western Atlantic from North Carolina to southeastern Brazil, but there are some gaps between these regions. A single specimen was collected from a traditional line fishing fleet operating in the Mucuripe Sea, Ceará, during August 2007. We noticed a meristic difference between the specimen examined and the information from the literature. However this difference did not make the identification difficult. The new record of B. barbata fills geographic distribution gaps of this species in the western Atlantic.