Pasiphaea barnardi (Decapoda, Caridea, Pasiphaeidae) in the southern fjords of Chile

The glass shrimps belonging to genus Pasiphaea are scarcely registered in Chilean waters, with just 5 of the 66 species recognized today. Of these Pasiphaea acutifrons is reported erroneously to some localities in different oceans, this due basically to an ambiguous diagnosis. Recently, a paper was published that analyze the taxonomic status of this species, limiting the range of variability of its diagnostic characters and restricting its distribution. In Chile P. acutifrons is distributed from Iquique to Magellan Strait, but the informed diagnostic characters are not in agree with those of this specie. By this reason is proposed a study to analyze the material referred as P. acutifrons with the object verify the status of this species in Chile.Original Abstract: Los camarones vidrio del genero Pasiphaea estan pobremente representados en las aguas de Chile con solo 5 de las 66 especies reconocidas a nivel mundial; de ellas Pasiphaea acutifrons ha sido citada erroneamente para diferentes localidades en diferentes oceanos, debido basicamente a lo ambiguo de su diagnosis. En una reciente publicacion se analizo el estatus de esta especie limitando la variacion de los caracteres diagnosticos y restringiendo su distribucion geografica a Sudamerica. En Chile P. acutifrons es citada desde Iquique al Estrecho de Magallanes, sin embargo los caracteres diagnosticos informados no coinciden con aquellos indicados para esta especie. Por tal motivo se planteo el objetivo de reestudiar el material de P. acutifrons citado para Chile con el fin de verificar el estatus de esos registros.