Shortjaw lizardfish

materials_examined

Material examined: UFBA 2821 (1 ex.: 283 mm SL), Brazil, Bahia, São João da Mata, off Praia do Forte, collector G. Marcovaldi, depth 300 m, 26 October 2006. TAMAR 0 0 54 (1 ex.: 275 mm SL), Brazil, Bahia, São João da Mata, off Praia do Forte, collector G. Marcovaldi, depth 400 m, 27 May 2007. On May 27, 2007, two slender, silvery, lizardfishes were collected off Bahia, São João da Mata, Praia do Forte at a depth of about 400 m. One of them, smaller and slender, was easily identified as the Caribbean lizardfish (or smallscale lizardfish), Saurida caribbaea, a common species of the genus in the area. The other one, stouter, larger and with the upper jaw longer than the lower, thus different of the smaller one, was preserved in the TAMAR collection and later identified by the first author as Saurida normani, the Shortjaw lizardfish. This is a fish rarely observed in Brazilian waters and, as far as known there are no other voucher specimens in any Brazilian scientific institution, despite having been recorded for the region by Carvalho- Filho (1999) and Costa et al. (2007). We examined two male specimens, both collected at a depth of about 400 m. Diagnostic characters: Based on the exa

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