Resumen de First report of the hapuku wreckfish Polyprion oxygeneios (Polyprionidae) in Argentinian waters

Andrés C. Milessi, Agustín M. De Wysiecki, Alfredo Carvalho Filho, Rodrigo Wiff

• The hapuku wreckfish Polyprion oxygeneios is recorded for the first time in Argentinian waters. Four specimens were caught off Mar del Plata (38°S, Argentina) in depths between 60 and 260 m during austral summer (three by sport fishers and one in a research cruise). Up to the present, this species was consistently misidentified with its congener, the common wreckfish P. americanus, off Argentina. These records represent a connection between previous records from Brazil and the more austral circumglobal distribution of the species.