El pez mesopelagico Centrolophus Niger (Gmelin, 1789) (Pisces: Perciformes) y su hallazgo en aguas del talud continental chileno situadas sobre la placa Sudamericana

Abstract

A specimen of Centrolophus niger (Gmelin, 1789) (Perciformes: Centrolophidae), caught as by catch of the "chilean cardenalfish" Epigonus crassicaudus de Buen 1959, was studied. The specimen was caught on October 14, 2003, on the continental slope just off shore Valdivia Province (39°04′S;73°57′W), at 400 m deep, through midwater trawler fishing. This one is the southernmost record of this genus and species, being simultaneously the first record in Chilean continental slope waters of South American Plate, and the second record for the Chilean ichthyofauna.