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Hidrobiológica
Print version ISSN 0188-8897
Abstract
MEDINA-ROSAS, Pedro and RAYMUNDO-HUIZAR, Alma. Second report of the chimaera Harriotta raleighana (Chondrichthyes: Rhinochimaeridae) in Banderas Bay, Jalisco, Mexico. Hidrobiológica [online]. 2019, vol.29, n.2, pp.89-92. Epub Mar 05, 2021. ISSN 0188-8897.
Background:
Chimaeras are cartilaginous fish that live in waters more than 200 m deep. There are two species of the genus Harriotta in the Rhinochimaaeridae Family, but only one, H. raleighana Goode & Bean 1895, occurs in Mexican waters. In almost one hundred years it has been collected only six times in the Mexican Pacific, and it is considered a rare and poorly known species.
Goals:
this note describes the last and most recent specimen collected in this region.
Methods:
in early 2018 a specimen was found in a fishing net in the south of Bahia de Banderas, Jalisco, and represents the second record in the area, the only place in Mexico with two records.
Results:
data and measurements are included. A female weighing 1.343 kg, with a total length of 85.5 cm, corresponding to the largest specimen ever collected in México. Digestive tract was empty.
Conclusions:
this is the second report for this species for Jalisco, particularly in Bahía de Banderas, the only place in Mexico with two records of this rare species.
Keywords : chimaera; rare species; archibenthic; abyssal.