Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.59.1.14

Confirmed occurrence of Indian Ocean twospot Cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Osteichthyes: Apogonidae) in the Levantine Sea: first record from the Syrian coast

Malek ALI orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-0431 ; Marine Sciences Laboratory, Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
Majd KHADDOUR ; Marine Sciences Laboratory, Basic Sciences Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
Christian CAPAPÉ ; Laboratoire d’Ichtyologie, case 104, Université Montpellier II, Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc, 34 095 Montpellier cedex 5, France

Abstract

The authors present the first record of Indian Ocean twospot Cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus from the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean).The species is described including morphometric measurements and meristic counts. This new finding confirms the establishment of a viable population of C. novemstriatus occurs at present in the Levant Basin.

Keywords

Osteichthyes; Apogonidae; Cheilodipterus novemstriatus; Lessepsian migration; population

Hrčak ID:

204593

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/204593

Publication date:

9.7.2018.

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