Abstract

CASTRO-AGUIRRE, José Luis et al. New record of Coryphaenoides oreinos (Teleostei: Gadiformes: Macrouridae) in the central Mexican Pacific. Hidrobiológica [online]. 2007, vol.17, n.2, pp.189-192. ISSN 0188-8897.

The grenadier fish Coryphaenoides oreinos is newly reported for Mexican waters, corresponding an adult of unknown sex, which was caught at the ocean surface over very deep water (3045 m), off Manzanillo, Colima (México). It represents the first specimen of this species in a Mexican Ichthyological collection.

Keywords : Coryphaenoides oreinos; Macrouridae; new record; Mexican Pacific.