Eduardo García-Mercado

• National Autonomous University of Mexico

Three specimens (387-436 mm standard length and 1300-1815 g of weight) of the Black driftfish Hyperoglyphe bythites were collected at a depth between 150 to 200 m from south of Veracruz, Mexico. This report represents the first confirmed record of the species in Mexico and the southernmost record of the species.

The presence of three adult specimens of the Snake mackerel, Gempylus serpens Cuvier, 1829 (with 564-743 mm of standard length), on the southern coast of Veracruz, Mexico, has been recorded. Their morphological and meristic characteristics are presented here, and these characteristics concur with the ones found in the western Atlantic. The presence...

In wildlife and cultured environments, it is common to find some specimens of the flatfish group with morphological and color abnormalities. The present study shows two cases in three specimens of abnormalities in flatfishes collected on Mexican coasts. A new record of reversal in Citharichthys macrops (95.9 mm of standard length) collected in the...

The presence of Parachromis managuensis has been reported for the first time in the Tres Palos Lagoon, State of Guerrero, on the coastal Lagoon of the Mexican Pacific slope. Two specimens (189 mm and 215 mm standard length) were caught by local fishermen from the community of San Pedro de Las Playas. A description of the morphological and meristic...