First Record of pughead in Fat snook, Centropomus parallelus Poey, 1860 (Perciformes: Centropomidae) Bruna Cabral Carneiro Batista, Tiago Ribeiro de Souza, Milena Ramires, Matheus Marcos Rotundo

Abstract

 This study aimed to describe the skeletal morphology and identify the degree of severity of the first record of pughead in Centropomus parallelus (Perciformes: Centropomidae). In 2017, a specimen was caught in artisanal fishing into an estuary of the Una do Prelado River, in the Sustainable Development Reserve of Barra do Una, Peruíbe, São Paulo - Brazil. Together this anomalous specimen, another fish of the same species, with similar size and normal conditions, were radiographed for comparative analysis. The observed anomaly was restricted to head region, but these consequences and the causes, were not determined. So, the monitoring is important to understand the nature and frequency of this anomaly.