1 INTRODUCTION In recent decades, the global degradation of shallow reefs (Bayraktarov et al., 2014; Duran et al., 2018; Gómez-Cubillos et al., 2015; González-Díaz et al., 2018), has caused the scientific community to focus its activities on mesophotic reefs study (Baker et al., 2016; Davis et al., 2019; González-Zapata et al., 2018; Hinderstein et al., 2019; Kahng et al., 2010), considering them as a refuge for shallow water species, since these ecosystems start between 30 and 40 m up to...
