{"id":6282,"date":"2026-08-08T00:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:40:40","slug":"torpedinidae-de-chile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/torpedinidae-de-chile\/","title":{"rendered":"Torpedinidae de Chile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phylum&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/chordata-de-chile\/\">Chordata<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/chondrichthyes-de-chile\/\">Chondrichthyes<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;| Orden&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/torpediniformes-de-chile\/\">Torpediniformes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;<\/strong>Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente (<strong>temporal<\/strong>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Citar como:\u00a0<\/strong>Rom\u00e1n-de la Fuente, T.\u00a0<em>Torpedinidae de Chile<\/em>. ChileFauna. Recuperado el [inserte fecha de consulta] de [URL]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00bfEres especialista en este grupo y deseas ser el investigador a cargo? Escribe a tomasromandlf@gmail.com. \u00a1Gracias!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Torpedinidae<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Henle, 1834<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">La familia <strong>Torpedinidae<\/strong> agrupa a los peces cartilaginosos conocidos como <strong>rayas torpedo<\/strong> o <strong>tremielgas<\/strong>, pertenecientes al orden Torpediniformes. Se caracterizan por presentar un disco pectoral casi circular y suave, desprovisto de escamas placoides o espinas en la piel, y una cola corta y musculosa provista de una aleta caudal bien desarrollada y dos aletas dorsales. Su rasgo fisiol\u00f3gico m\u00e1s emblem\u00e1tico es la presencia de un par de potentes \u00f3rganos el\u00e9ctricos reniformes situados a ambos lados del disco pectoral. Estos \u00f3rganos, compuestos por columnas de electrocitos (c\u00e9lulas musculares modificadas), son capaces de emitir descargas de alto voltaje para inmovilizar presas \u2014principalmente peces tele\u00f3steos y crust\u00e1ceos\u2014 y defenderse eficazmente de sus depredadores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ecol\u00f3gicamente, los torped\u00ednidos son peces bent\u00f3nicos y de h\u00e1bitos predominantemente nocturnos que habitan en fondos arenosos, mudosos o rocosos desde aguas costeras poco profundas hasta la plataforma continental y el talud superior en oc\u00e9anos de todo el mundo. Pasan la mayor parte del d\u00eda semienterrados en el sustrato, confiando en su capacidad de camuflaje para pasar desapercibidos antes de lanzar un ataque en emboscada. En cuanto a su reproducci\u00f3n, son viv\u00edparos aplacentarios (ovoviv\u00edparos), donde los embriones se alimentan del saco vitelino y de secreciones uterinas hasta el momento del parto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Torpedinidae<\/strong>\u00a0de Chile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">En Chile, la familia Torpedinidae est\u00e1 representada por tres especies, destacando el torpedo (<em>Tetronarce tremens<\/em>, hist\u00f3ricamente clasificada como <em>Torpedo tremens<\/em>), un batiodeo que habita a lo largo de las costas del oc\u00e9ano Pac\u00edfico sureste. Esta especie habita en el fondo marino desde zonas submareales hasta profundidades considerables en la plataforma continental, cazando peque\u00f1os peces mediante descargas el\u00e9ctricas para aturdirlos. Pese a no tener un alto valor comercial y no ser blanco de la pesca dirigida, se ve impactada de forma directa e incidental por las operaciones de pesca de arrastre bent\u00f3nico que operan en las aguas territoriales chilenas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>N\u00famero de taxones en Chile:<\/strong>\u00a03 (especies v\u00e1lidas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Tetronarce microdiscus<\/em> (Parin &amp; Kotlyar, 1985)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Tetronarce semipelagica <\/em>(Parin &amp; Kotlyar, 1985)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Tetronarce tremens<\/em> (de Buen, 1959)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Referencias<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>H\u00fcne, M. (2019).&nbsp;<\/strong>Lista sistem\u00e1tica actualizada de los peces de Chile. Gbif.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gbif-chile.mma.gob.cl\/ipt\/resource?r=peces#anchor-versions\">https:\/\/gbif-chile.mma.gob.cl\/ipt\/resource?r=peces#anchor-versions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phylum&nbsp;Chordata&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;Chondrichthyes&nbsp;| Orden&nbsp;Torpediniformes Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente (temporal) Citar como:\u00a0Rom\u00e1n-de la Fuente, T.\u00a0Torpedinidae de Chile. ChileFauna. Recuperado el [inserte fecha de consulta] de [URL] \u00bfEres especialista en este grupo y deseas ser el investigador a cargo? Escribe a tomasromandlf@gmail.com. \u00a1Gracias! \u2014 Torpedinidae\u00a0Henle, 1834 La familia Torpedinidae agrupa a los peces cartilaginosos conocidos &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/torpedinidae-de-chile\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torpedinidae de Chile<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-especies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Torpedinidae de Chile - ChileFauna<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chilefauna.cl\/index.php\/torpedinidae-de-chile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Torpedinidae de Chile - ChileFauna\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Phylum&nbsp;Chordata&nbsp;| Clase&nbsp;Chondrichthyes&nbsp;| Orden&nbsp;Torpediniformes Investigador(es) a cargo:&nbsp;Tom\u00e1s Rom\u00e1n de la Fuente (temporal) Citar como:\u00a0Rom\u00e1n-de la Fuente, T.\u00a0Torpedinidae de Chile. 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