Hymenocephalus cf. aterrimus Gilbert 1905 (Fig. 3 C) Material examined. One specimen: MNRJ 27013 (1, 92.1 mm), T, E-498. Distribution. Collected from off Bahia, at depths from 614 to 629 m. Hymenocephalus aterrimus was described from off the Kauai Island, Hawaii. It is known to have a worldwide distribution in tropical regions of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans (Iwamoto 1999; Iwamoto 2002); in the WSA, it was previously recorded from northeastern Brazil (3°22’ S, 37°49’ W) by Marshall and Iwamoto (1973b).

Published as part of 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, pp. 25-46 in Zootaxa 2433 on page 35, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.194741