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https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.62.1.9

First documented record of smalleye squaretail Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, 1810 (Perciformes, Stromatoidea) along Calabrian coasts (Southern Italy, Central Mediterranean)

Alex Carnevale ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Gianni Giglio ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Francesco Luigi Leonetti ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Luca Lanteri ; Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Concetta Milazzo ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Sandro Tripepi ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy
Emilio Sperone ; Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy

Abstract

The first record of Tetragonurus cuvieri Risso, 1810 off Calabrian coast (Southern Italy, Central Mediterranean) is reported. The specimen, a male of 361 mm total length, was found at a depth of 7 m during a scientific visual census research activity, in March 2017. The sighting was located off the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria (Paola: 39.355453N, 16.029192E). The present finding represents the 1st documented record for the Tyrrhenian coast of the Calabria region.

Keywords

Tetragonurus cuvieri; biometrics; Calabria; Central Mediterranean; new record

Hrčak ID:

260980

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/260980

Publication date:

26.7.2021.

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