New eastern Pacific Ocean record of the rare deep-water fish, Psychrolutes phrictus (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae)

Autores/as

  • Hugo Aguirre-Villaseñor Instituto Nacional de Pesca
  • Edgar Cruz-Acevedo
  • Carolina Salas-Singh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmb.2016.06.013

Palabras clave:

Blob sculpin, Benthic, Mexican Pacific coast, Hypoxic conditions, Morphometrics, Meristics

Resumen

Psychrolutes phrictus is a benthic deep sea fish known from the eastern North Pacific. On 30 March 2008, a specimen of the blob sculpin P. phrictus (297 mm LT) was caught off the Guerrero coast, Mexico (17°45'24"N, 101°59'04"W). The blob sculpin was taken at a depth of 1,100 m within a temperature range of 3.88–4.25 °C, where hypoxic (0.57–0.39 mg/l) conditions prevailed; the specimen was captured over a muddy bottom using a benthic sledge. Representatives of this species had never been reported off the Mexican Pacific coast; our new record extends the known southern most range by 1,733 km, from 33°19'N to 17°45'N for the American coast. Although high variations in morphometric and meristic values are known for the 4 species of the genus Psychrolutes (P. paradoxus, P. phrictus, P. sigalutes, and P. sio) from the eastern Pacific Ocean, a combination of traits and species distribution allow us to identity this specimen as P. phrictus.

Biografía del autor/a

Hugo Aguirre-Villaseñor, Instituto Nacional de Pesca

Investigador Titular C

Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera, Mazatlán

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Publicado

2016-08-08

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NOTAS CIENTÍFICAS (cancelada desde 2017)