Northernmost occurrence of the offshore rockfish, Pontinus kuhlii (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), in the Mediterranean Sea | Zendy

António Pais | Zendy; Lorenzo A. Chessa | Zendy; G. Delrio | Zendy

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Northernmost occurrence of the offshore rockfish, Pontinus kuhlii (Scorpaeniformes: Scorpaenidae), in the Mediterranean Sea

Author(s) -

António Pais,

Lorenzo A. Chessa,

G. Delrio

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

acta ichthyologica et piscatoria

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357

H-Index - 24

eISSN - 1734-1515

pISSN - 0137-1592

DOI - 10.3750/aip2005.35.2.12

Subject(s) - meristics , scorpaenidae , rockfish , fishery , mediterranean sea , mediterranean climate , geography , population , overfishing , mediterranean basin , fish <actinopterygii> , oceanography , biology , geology , archaeology , demography , sociology

An adult male specimen of the offshore rockfish, Pontinus kuhlii (Bowdich, 1825), was caught off the coast of Alghero (NW Sardinia, Italy) in August 2004. That capture represents the second documented record of this Atlantic migrant in Italian waters, after more than a century from the first report. Furthermore, the new specimen is the largest specimen of this species ever recorded in the Mediterranean Basin and the most northern capture for this geographic area. Morphologic and meristic characters of the collected fish are described and the existence of a Mediterranean population is hypothesized.

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