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Second record of the blue runner Caranx crysos (Perciformes: Carangidae) in Argentine waters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2011

Sergio M. Delpiani*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, (7600), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Pablo H. Lertora
Affiliation:
Museo del Mar, Mar del Plata, Argentina
Ezequiel Mabragaña
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, (7600), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
Juan M. Díaz de Astarloa
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, (7600), Argentina Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET)
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Correspondence should be addressed to: S.M. Delpiani, Laboratorio de Ictiología, Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Funes 3350, Mar del Plata, (7600), Argentina email: [email protected]
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Abstract

In the present paper a specimen of the blue runner Caranx crysos, a thermophilic species commonly found in subtropical Atlantic waters, was newly reported from the Mar del Plata coast. The presence of the blue runner in Argentine waters could be explained by the warm drift theory.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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