PARENT SESSION
Poster Session #12: Marine Ecology.
Monday, August 5. Presentation from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Exhibit Hall B & C, TCC

Range extension for Octopus hubbsorum Berry 1953 (Mollusca;octopodidae) in the Mexican Pacific.

López, Ernesto^*,1, Enciso, Ildefonso¹, Ríos, Eduardo¹, Pérez, Martín¹, Martínez, Alejandro¹, Robles, Guadalupe¹, ¹ UNIVERSIDAD DE GUADALAJARA-CUCBA, GUADALAJARA, JALISCO, MÉXICO

ABSTRACT- Hubbs' octopus Octopus hubbsorum is reported at 24 localities along of the Mexico Pacific coast. The distribution species of the previously recorded in the Gulf of California (28 55'N, 113 32'W ) and in Melaque (southern coast of Jalisco) (19 12'N, 105 40'W) is extended south to Salina Cruz, Oaxaca (16 10'N, 95 14'W). Specimens were captured with a the short pole with the hook in the rocky substrates of the subtidal zone to depths 30 m. This is the principal target species of octopus in the fisheries of this vast region.

KEY WORDS: Octopus hubbsorum , IN THE MEXICAN PACIFIC