Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

Pencil cardinal Epigonus denticulatus Dieuzeide 1950, a western Mediterranean fish: Newly recorded from the Syrian marine waters (Eastern Mediterranean)

Amir Ibrahim, Firas Alshawy^♦, Chirine Hussein

Department of Fisheries Resource, High Institute of Marine Research, Tishreen University, Lattakia - Syria

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Fisheries at High Institute of Marine Research, Tishreen University, Lattakia Syria

ABSTRACT

Due to its location between the continents of the ancient world, Mediterranean Sea is exposed to various climatic conditions, which play a role in the differences in biodiversity between the western, central and eastern Mediterranean. The family Epigonidae spread in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, Epigonus denticulatus is one of the Epigonidae spread in the western Mediterranean and was not record before in the eastern Mediterranean except for the Turkish coasts. In this paper, we present the species Epigonus denticulatus as the first record in the Syrian marine waters, which has the possibility of spreading towards the south in the eastern Mediterranean.

Keywords: Mediterranean, Epigonidae, Epigonus denticulatus, Syrian marine waters

Species, 2023, 24(73), e25s1025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e25s1025

Published: 24 March 2023