Abstract
We report the observation of two juvenile specimens of Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874, south of Arica, Chile, which expands the current known distributional range of the species, by adding a previously unrecorded locality. The importance of the presence of breeding populations in the northern coast of Chile is discussed.
Highlights
The Ariidae family is one of two families of the order Siluriformes, which are widely represented in marine waters
The American species likely arrived from Africa long after the breakup of Gondwana (Betancur-R. and Armbruster 2009)
There is a lack of scholarly agreement on the distribution of G. peruvianus
Summary
The Ariidae family is one of two families of the order Siluriformes, which are widely represented in marine waters. Galeichthys Valenciennes, 1840 is the sole genus of the Galeichthyinae, one of the two subfamilies of Ariidae (Betancur-R. and Armbruster 2009; Marceniuk et al 2012) and comprises one species in the Eastern Pacific. Ocean and three species restricted to southern Africa The American species likely arrived from Africa long after the breakup of Gondwana (Betancur-R. and Armbruster 2009). Sashed Catfish, Galeichthys peruvianus Lütken, 1874, is a relatively common species with an apparently wide distribution on the Pacific coasts of the American continent, occurring mainly in the coast of Peru and central-northern Chile (Betancur-R. and Armbruster 2009) with additional records in Colombia (Alvarez-León, 2019), Mexico (Ruelas-Inzunza and Paez-Osuna 2007), and Ecuador (Bearez 1996). There is a lack of scholarly agreement on the distribution of G. peruvianus
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