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https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.64.1.2

First record of yellowbar angelfish Pomacanthus maculosus (Pomacanthidae) from the Syrian coast (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Christian Capapé orcid.org/0000-0002-6630-2728 ; Laboratory of Ichthyology, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Vienna Hammoud ; Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences, Tartous University, Tartous, Syria
Aola Fandi ; Environmental Prevention Department, Higher Institute for Environmental Research, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
Malek Ali ; Marine Sciences Laboratory, Production Animal Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

Abstract

On 16 June 2022, two specimens of Pomacanthus maculosus (Forsskål, 1775) were observed in the Syrian marine waters.
One specimen was captured and classified, measured, preserved in formaldehyde and deposited at Tishreen University. It is
a second substantiated record in the Levant Basin, and the first for the Syrian coast. The successful establishment of a viable
population of P. maculosus in the Mediterranean Sea remains a suitable hypothesis which cannot be totally ruled out.

Keywords

Pomacanthidae; morphometric measurements; meristic counts; Lessepsian migrant; Levant Basin

Hrčak ID:

304345

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/304345

Publication date:

14.6.2023.

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