Revista Chilena de Historia Natural ISSN: 0716-078X
[email protected] Sociedad de Biología de Chile Chile BREMEC, CLAUDIA; SCHEJTER, LAURA Benthic diversity in a submarine canyon in the Argentine sea Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, vol. 83, núm. 3, 2010, pp. 453-457 Sociedad de Biología de Chile Santiago, Chile Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=369944295012 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative BENTHOS FROM A CANYON IN ARGENTINA 453 REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 83: 453-457, 2010 © Sociedad de Biología de Chile LETTER TO THE EDITOR Benthic diversity in a submarine canyon in the Argentine sea Diversidad bentónica en un cañón submarino en el mar argentino CLAUDIA BREMEC1, 2, * & LAURA SCHEJTER1, 2 1 Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Paseo Victoria Ocampo N° 1, Mar del Plata, B7602HSA, Argentina 2 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina *Corresponding author:
[email protected] INTRODUCTION to communicate novel information about the benthic species composition in deep The extensive Argentinean continental shelf is Argentinean bottoms and to discuss faunal dominated by soft sediments, mainly affinities with the neighbouring Patagonian composed of sand with minor quantities of scallop fishing grounds located at lower shelf shells and mud. Its external edge, where the depth. continental slope starts, varies between 110 The material was collected in April 2005 at and 165 m depth approximately and usually a canyon located at 43º35’ S and 59º33’ W, 325 associated with the 200 m isobath.