Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)

Description

The fish collection began in 1970, in the ex Instituto de Biología Marina (currently INIDEP) under the direction of Dr. Fernando Cervigón, eminent Spanish ichthyologist established in Venezuela. The samples come mainly from the research cruises carried on by the INIDEP but there are also those delivered by fishing vessels crew and recreational fishermen. The specimens are fixed in water with 10 % formaldehyde and then preserved in a solution of 75 % ethyl alcohol and 25 % distilled water. The collection acronym is INIDEP. The principal origin area is the Southwestern Atlantic continental shelf between 34° - 55° S and adjacent areas, but it also contains samples from South Georgia and South Shetland Islands, Southern Ocean. The data are digitized and they have been entered into the Sistema Nacional de Datos Biológicos (http://datos.sndb.mincyt.gob.ar/), Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva de la Nación. The holotype and 16 paratypes of Bathyraja cousseauae Díaz de Astarloa & Mabragaña, 2004, the holotype and 9 paratypes of Dipturus argentinensis Díaz de Astarloa, Mabragaña, Hanner & Figueroa, 2008 and 1 paratype of Myliobatis ridens Ruocco, Lucifora, Díaz de Astarloa, Mabragaña & Delpiani, 2012 make all part of the collection. The collection contains 376 species of 164 Families representing 64 % of the total number of species presently known as occurring in the abovementioned Southwestern Atlantic sector. The collection contains 58 species of Antarctic origin (members of the Families Nototheniidae, Bathydraconidae, Chanichthyidae, Liparidae, among others), they constitute 21,3 % of the species mentioned by Gon & Hemstra for the Southern Ocean. On the continental shelf and adjacent areas 41 of those species have been captured, the rest (16 species, corresponding to 5 Families) come from the Southern Ocean.

Contacts

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Santiago A. Barbini
email: sbarbini@mdp.edu.ar

Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP)
Paseo Victoria Ocampo Nº1
Mar del Plata
B7602HSA
Buenos Aires
AR