Hymenocephalus billsam Marshall & Iwamoto 1973

(Fig. 3 D)

Material examined. 35 specimens: MNRJ 26940 (3, 98.8–119.0 mm), T, E-503; MNRJ 27010 (2, 76.0–111.0 mm), T, E-510; MNRJ 27011 (2, 81.0–91.0 mm), T, E-511; MNRJ 27012 (6, 89.0–99.0 mm), T, E-543; MNRJ 27014 (4, 90.0–118.0 mm), T, E-499; MNRJ 27015 (4, 116.0–135.0 mm), T, E-517; MNRJ 27016 (4, 63.0– 108.0 mm), T, E-522; MNRJ 27119 (10, 76.0–118.0 mm), T, D-538.

Distribution. Collected from off Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, at depths from 233 to 1275 m. The type locality of Hymenocephalus billsam is off Puerto Rico, but the paratypes were collected from several parts of the Gulf of Mexico and southern Brazil (Marshall & Iwamoto 1973b; Menezes & Figueiredo 2003a). It was recorded in Argentina by Cousseau (1993).