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- Title
Occurrence of the Smallscale Codlet, Bregmaceros nectabanus in the Mediterranean Sea, previously misidentified as B. atlanticus in this region.
- Authors
Harold, Antony S.; Golani, Daniel
- Abstract
Background: We report the occurrence of Bregmaceros nectabanus as the only species of this genus occurring in the Mediterranean Sea. Results: All previously published records of B. atlanticus from the Mediterranean are based on misidentifications. Among the features that distinguish B. nectabanus are its nearly unpigmented abdomen, presence of a thin dorsolateral longitudinal stripe below the second dorsal fin, and a distally fimbriate opercular spine. Conclusions: Since this species is known also from the Red Sea it is evidently a Lessepsian migrant that reached the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.
- Subjects
MEDITERRANEAN Sea; SUEZ Canal (Egypt); CODLETS; INTRODUCED species; FISH morphology; SPECIES diversity
- Publication
Marine Biodiversity Records, 2016, Vol 9, p1
- ISSN
1755-2672
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s41200-016-0071-0