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Rev. BioL Trop., 45(2): 937, 1997

First account oí tbe Birdbeak Dogfish , calcea, (: SquaUdae) from tbe northern coast of Peru

(Received 5-VI-96. Corrected 24-X-96. Accepted 7-XI-96)

Key words: Deania, chondrichtyes, dogfi�h, Peru, shark, , new record.

Birdbeak Dogfish, Deania calcea (Lowe, 1839) of the Department of Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences (CAS 58066). Previolls range: This species is known This species was first known fram South from the northeastem Atlantic from Iceland to American waters by a single maJe (750 mm westem Africa, southern and southwestem 11.,)specimen of Deaniae glantina (= D. caJeea Africa, southem , , and of Compagno 1984) collected off Valparaiso, Southern Japan (Compagno 1984). In the Chile, by de Buen (1960). The known limits of eastern Pacific ít ranges along the coast of this species were established when Meléndez Chile from the southern Golfo de Arica and Meneses (1991) provided additional (18°26'S, 7003TW), to near Constitución specimens with complete capture data, (35°20'S, 73°00W) (Meléndez and Meneses expanding the range in Chile from 18°26'S to 1991). 35°20'S. This new northem record suggests D, caleea has an eastern Pacific distribution from New Range: This species is now known southern Chile to at least northem Peru. fram off the Bahía de Sechura (5°01 '8), along the northern Peruvían coast, extending the known eastern Pacific range of this species at REFERENCES least 1400 km and over 13 degreesfurther north 1960. than previously reported. de Buen, F, Tiburones, rayas y quimeras en la Estación de Biología Marina de Montemar, Chile. Rev. BioL Mar. 10: 3-50. Comments: This new record is based on 1966. an adult female, 886 mm total length (after Chin, E, Cruise report, research vessel Antun Bruun, cruise 16, Marine Laboratory, Texas A&M preservation), trawled from the continental University, Galveston, Texas, Special Report no. 6, 36 shelf of Peru off the Bahía de Sechura (5°01'S, p.

81025W) at 200-311 m depth from 1125-1325 Compagno, L.V, 1. 1984. FAO Species Catalogue. VoL 4. hrs on 3 June 1966 by the R/V Anton Bruun, of the World, An annotated and iIIustrated cruise 16 (Chin 1966). The specimen was not guide of shark species known lo date. Part L to Larnnifonnes. FAO Fisheries formally documented until now. Identification Synopsis (125) vol. 4, pt. 1: 1-249, was based on comparisons and morphological 1991. descriptions in Compagno (1984). This Meléndez, R. & D. Meneses, Tiburones del Talud Continental recolectados entre Arica (18°19'S) e Isla specimen is housed in the research collections Mocha (38°30'S), Chile, Investig. Mar. 17-18-19 (1989-1990-1991): 3-73.

Douglas J. Long Departrnent of lChthyology, California Acaderny of Sciences, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, Califoruia 94118, U.S.A.