Gabriela Delpiani

• Dr. Biology
• Dr. at National University of Mar del Plata

Patagonotothen ramsayi has the highest concentrations at Burdwood Bank, playing a key ecological role in the demersal food web. The aim of this study was to describe and analyze the feeding ecology of longtail southern cod in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank (MPAN-BB). From 369 specimens sampled, 229 (62.06%) contained food. Prey-s...

The Squalus genus comprises a group of small demersal sharks occurring circumglobally, popularly known as dogfish sharks. This genus exhibits a conserved morphology, thus making correct morphological identification difficult. Considering these taxonomic problems and the scarcity of molecular data, the present study aimed to identify Squalus genus M...

The yellowfin notothen Patagonotothen guntheri is an important fish species in the Marine Protected Area Namuncurá-Burdwood Bank (MPAN-BB) due to its high abundance and significant ecological role. Thus, diet composition and feeding habits were analyzed. To fulfill this purpose, percentage frequency of occurrence, prey-specific abundance, and prey-...

The first non-coastal Sub-Antarctic Marine Protected Area (Namuncurá) in Argentina was created in 2013, at Burdwood Bank (MPAN-BB), an undersea plateau located about 200 km south from Malvinas/Falkland Islands, SW Atlantic Ocean. The main contribution of this work was to explore fish species composition and the structure of fish assemblages in thre...

The detection of substituted or mislabeled seafood may have different consequences on consumers and the environment, including economic losses due to potential commercial fraud, public health effects, uncontrolled impacts on fish species of threatened status, and damage to populations due to overfishing. The molecular identification of processed me...

The present study provides quantitative and qualitative analyses of the dentition of Discopyge tschudii. Overall, 193 individuals (99 males and 94 females) of D. tschudii were collected on scientific trawl surveys conducted by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development (INIDEP) and commercial vessels in Argentina. Discopyge tschu...

A description of the tooth morphology of 234 jaws from the southern thorny skate Amblyraja doellojuradoi in the south-west Atlantic Ocean is given. Seven rows of teeth were selected and length and width of each tooth in these rows were measured. It was found that functional series corresponds to the third teeth and the average width and length of t...

The study of the feeding habits of elasmobranch populations should help to elucidate the ecological role of these fishes in the marine ecosystem. Feeding habits of the apron ray, Discopyge tschudii from San Jorge Gulf were investigated. An evaluation of whether the diet of D. tschudii changes with body size, seasons, maturity stage and sex was perf...

A ocorrência de Nesiarchus nasutus é registrado pela primeira vez em águas argentinas, sendo a esta ocorrência mais meridional da espécie no Atlântico Sudoeste. Isto sugere que as características ambientais flutuantes da área seriam adequadas para a presença de espécies tropicais e subtropicais na mesma.

During the research programme conducted on the OV Puerto Deseado in the summers of 2011 and 2013, 36 stations were sampled using a demersal net at depths between 53–590m in the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetland Islands.Atotal 3378 fish specimens belonging to 36 species were recorded. Notothenidae was the best-represented family in species numb...

A new species of Merizocotyle Cerfontaine, 1894 (Monogenea: Monocotylidae) is described from the nasal tissues of three deep sea rajid skates: the southern thorny skate, Amblyraja doellojuradoi (Pozzi), broadnose skate, Bathyraja brachyurops (Fowler), and yellownose skate, Zearaja chilensis (Guichenot), collected off Buenos Aires Province, Argentin...

The feeding ecology of the southern thorny skate, Amblyraja doellojuradoi, on the Argentine Continental Shelf was evaluated using generalized linear models. Amblyraja doellojuradoi preyed mainly on crabs (85.41% index of relative importance (IRI)) and to a lesser extent on polychaetes (4.98% IRI), teleosts (3.28% IRI), isopods (2.03% IRI), other cr...

La présente note décrit un cas aberrant de nageoire supplémentaire chez un spécimen de Zearaja chilensis (Guichenot, 1848), capturé au large de la Patagonie dans les eaux argentines.

Teeth morphology has been widely used in taxonomic, biological and fossil teeth studies of Chondrichthyes. Herein, dental abnormalities in Amblyraja doellojuradoi are described. Almost 10% of 182 specimens sampled presented any of these types of dental anomalies: (1) an additional incomplete tooth row between two complete rows, (2) an increasing to...

Teeth morphology has been widely used in taxonomic, biological and fossil teeth studies of Chondrichthyes. Herein, dental abnormalities in Amblyraja doellojuradoi are described. Almost 10% of 182 specimens sampled presented any of these types of dental anomalies: (1) an additional incomplete tooth row between two complete rows, (2) an increasing to...

This work constitutes the first description of the clasper of Amblyraja doellojuradoi. The characterization was based on both external morphology and the composition of the internal cartilages. A comparison based on these structures with other species of the genus is provided. Considering all of the cartilages, the basal and terminal series of A. d...

Egg cases of 21 oviparous chondrichthyan species from the south-west Atlantic Ocean are described and compared. The catshark Schroederichthys bivius has a cigar-shaped egg case with curled tendrils only at the posterior end. Egg cases of the elephant fish Callorhinchus callorynchus are spindle-shaped with anterior and posterior tubular extensions a...