Nuevos registros de Balistes polylepis (Balistidae), Sphoeroides lobatus (Tetraodontidae), Mola mola y M. ramsayi (Molidae) en San Antonio, Chile (Pisces, Tetraodontiformes)

Abstract

The finding of three specimens of Balistes polylepis Steindachner, 1876, in San Antonio (33°35'S), Santo Domingo (33°37'S) and Cartagena (33°32'S) and one specimen of Sphoeroides lobatus Steindachner, 1870 in Matanza (33°58'S) and one specimen of Mola mola Linnaeus, 1758 and three specimens of M. ramsayi (Giglioli, 1833), to the west of Las Cruces (33°31 'S) increases the known geographic distribution for these species from northern Chile to central Chile. Their presence is associated to El Niño phenomena of 1982-1983 and 1997-1998.