The systematic status of a specimen belonging tu the Nettastomatidae family, coilected during the fishing campaigns made in 1995 aboard the B/P Orense, in the waters ofthe Economic Exclusive Zone (E.E.Z) of the Salvadoran Pacific was established. Literature allowed identification of the individual as Venefica tentaculata (Garman, 1899). This is the first record ofthis batipelagig flsh in Central American waters. 11ie sample was compared with those at the reference collection of the National Museum of Natural Histoiy (Washington, DC) and The Academy ofNatural Sciences (Philadelphia).