Phaenomonas longissima (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963)

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), Cybium 38 (4), pp. 289-300 : 293

Phaenomonas longissima (Cadenat & Marchal, 1963)

Material examined. ‑ MMF 42806, 430 mm TL, 10 mm PDL, 16°09’N 22°55’W, Baía do Sal Rei, Boa Vista Island , at surface over a substrate of sands and stones at 20 m depth, cruise Camarão‑2, 14 Mar. 2012, hand net .

Remarks. - This tropical benthic species was first recorded from the Cape Verdes by Cadenat and Roux (1964) as Sphagebranchus foresti . The specimen was X-rayed and vertebral count was 205. In the Atlantic Ocean it is known from Senegal and Ghana and from the islands of Cape Verde, Ascension and St. Helena ; also from Brazil ( Froese and Pauly, 2014). Found from tide pools down to 60 m depth, sometimes burrowing in sand or mud ( McCosker et al., 1989; Leiby, 1990). Our finding seems to be the first collection of this species swimming freely at surface.