Sphagemacrurus hirundo (Collett, 1896) Material examined. - MMF 42815, partially damaged, 180 mm PDL, 160 mm HL, 15°08’N 23°47’W, Ribeira da Barca, Santiago Island, 268‑292, cruise Camarão‑1, sta. 8‑D2, rocky bottom, 27 Nov 2011, BT. Remarks. - A benthopelagic deep-water species found between 873 m and 2330 m depth (Merrett and Domanski, 1985; Geistdoerfer, 1990). An eastern Atlantic species mostly known from insular areas and adjacent seamounts: the Azores (Collett, 1896, holotype), Madeira (Geistdoerfer, 1986), the Canaries (Merrett and Domanski, 1985) and the Cape Verde Islands (Maio Island) (Roule, 1919). Also present in the Bay of Cadiz (Nybelin, 1948). This is the southernmost record for the species.

Published as part of González, José A., Martins, Albertino, Santana, José I., Triay-Portella, Raül, Monteiro, Carlos, García-Martín, Verónica, Jiménez, Sebastián, González-Lorenzo, Gustavo, Pajuelo, José G., Lorenzo, José M. & Biscoito, Manuel, 2014, New and rare records of teleost fishes from the Cape Verde Islands (eastern-central Atlantic Ocean), pp. 289-300 in Cybium 38 (4) on page 295, DOI: 10.26028/cybium/2014-384-007, http://zenodo.org/record/13617414