Open AccessA NEW RECORD FROM THE SOUTHERN COLOMBIAN CARIBBEAN OF THE GULPER SHARK CENTROPHORUS GRANULOSUS (SCHNEIDER) (PISCES: CENTROPHORIDAE)
Author(s) -
Hernando Hernández-Hamón,
Samuel Núñez R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
boletin de investigaciones marinas y costeras/boletín de investigaciones marinas y costeras
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2590-4671
pISSN - 0122-9761
DOI - 10.25268/bimc.invemar.1998.27.0.336
Subject(s) - bathyal zone , geography , fishery , caribbean region , habitat , archaeology , biology , ecology , latin americans , benthic zone , linguistics , philosophy
There aren't records of Centrophoridae for the Southern Caribbean. Some of its species are generally known from bathypelagic habitats and are occasionally collected by deep exploratory field studies For the Colombian Caribbean, this is the First record of a male specimen (850 mm TL) of Centrophorus granulosus (Schneider, 1801) incidentally captured using a longline at 200 m depth on the continentalshelf off Bahía Taganga, Santa Marta.