First Record of the San Blas Skate Dipturus Garricki (bigelow and Schroeder, 1958) in the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea

A San Blas skate (Dipturus garricki) was incidentally captured at a depth of ~284m in the Guatemalan Caribbean Sea, ca. 11km northeast of El Quetzalito. The immature female with a total length of 742mm and disc width of 610mm had morphological characteristics consistent with Dipturus garricki. This is the first record of this little-known skate in the western Caribbean region. This new record is significant due to the scarcity of records of this species along its distribution in the Western Atlantic (N = 19).