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Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 3, 78 - 85, 26.12.2016
https://doi.org/10.28978/nesciences.286371

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  • Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S., Vella, N. (2015 a). Morphological and genetic barcoding study confirming the first Stegastes variabilis (Castelnau, 1855) report in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science, 16(3), 609-12.
  • Vella, A., Vella, N., Agius Darmanin, S. (2015 b). First record of Lutjanus fulviflamma (Osteichthyes: Lutjanidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 21(3), 307-15.
  • Vella, N., Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S. (2016 a). The first record of the lowfin chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) from Malta. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 22(2), 175-81.
  • Vella A, Vella N, Agius Darmanin S. (2016 b). The first record of the African sergeant, Abudefduf hoefleri (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biodiversity Records, 9(1), 1-5.
  • Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S., Vella, N. (2016 c). The first records of Indo-Pacific sergeant Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) and further notes on the occurrence of sergeant major A. saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Malta: expanding populations of an invasive genus in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 22(1), 1-15.

The first record of the longjaw squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (Holocentriformes: Holocentridae), in the Mediterranean Sea

Year 2016, Volume: 1 Issue: 3, 78 - 85, 26.12.2016
https://doi.org/10.28978/nesciences.286371

Abstract

Research and monitoring of coastal habitats and biodiversity is increasingly contributing to
the discovery of new alien species, which highlights the use of long-term monitoring for
timely assessment and management due to marine environmental changes. Research work
undertaken through coastal snorkelling surveys and working with fishermen allow for
additional monitoring effort to record biodiversity changes and new alien species presence.
One such new alien fish species was observed during spring snorkelling research while a
specimen was collected in August 2016 to undertake detailed morphological, meristic and
genetic analyses. Mitochondrial DNA barcoding analyses were undertaken to confirm the
species' identity as the family Holocentridae is composed of a number of species that have
very similar and overlapping morphological characters which may lead to misidentification.
This research led to the identification of the first record of a specimen of Longjaw
squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765), in the Mediterranean Sea. This is a
subtropical reef-associated species native to the Atlantic Ocean and may compete with native
Mediterranean reef species. 

References

  • Azzurro, E., Victor, M.T., Lombarte, A., Maynou, M., Simberloff, D., Rodríguez-Pérez, A., Solé, R.V. (2014). External morphology explains the success of biological invasions. Ecology Letters, 17, 1455-63.
  • Bariche, M., Torres, M., Smith, C., Sayar, N., Azzurro, E., Baker, R., Bernardi, G. (2015). Red Sea fishes in the Mediterranean Sea: a preliminary investigation of a biological invasion using DNA barcoding. Journal of Biogeography, 42, 2363-73.
  • Bowen, B.W., Bass, A.L., Muss, A., Carlin, J., Robertson, D.R. (2006). Phylogeography of two Atlantic squirrelfishes (Family Holocentridae): exploring links between pelagic larval duration and population connectivity. Marine Biology, 149(4), 899-913.
  • Carpenter, K.E. (ed.) (2002). The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 2: Bony fishes part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication No. 5. Rome, FAO, 601-1374.
  • Carpentieri, P., Lelli, S., Colloca, F., Mohanna, C., Bartolino, V., Moubayed, S., Ardizzone, G.D. (2009). Incidence of Lessepsian migrants on landings of the artisanal fishery of South Lebanon. Marine Biodiversity Records, 2:e71.
  • Chen, W.J., Santini, F., Carnevale, G., Chen, J.N., Liu, S.H., Lavoue, S., Mayden, R.L. (2014). New insights on early evolution of spiny-rayed fishes (Teleostei: Acanthomorpha). Frontiers in Marine Science, 1:e53.
  • Dornburg, A., Moore, J.A., Webster, R., Warren, D.L., Brandley, M.C., Iglesias, T.L., Peter, C., Wainwright, P.C., Near, T.J. (2012). Molecular phylogenetics of squirrelfishes and soldierfishes (Teleostei: Beryciformes: Holocentridae): Reconciling more than 100 years of taxonomic confusion. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution, 65, 727-38.
  • Froese, R., Pauly, D. (2016) FishBase. URL http://www.fishbase.us. Accessed 15th September 2016.
  • Galil, B.S. (2006). Shipwrecked – Shipping impacts on the biota of the Mediterranean Sea. Chapter 3 in Davenport, J. and J. L. Davenport (eds.), The Ecology of Transportation: Managing Mobility for the Environment. Springer publishers, The Netherlands.
  • Golani, D. (2010). Colonization of the Mediterranean by Red Sea fishes via the Suez Canal - Lessepsian migration. In: Golani, D., Appelbaum-Golani, B. (eds), Fish Invasions of the Mediterranean Sea: Change and Renewal. Sofia: Pensoft.
  • Golani, D., Orsi-Relini, L., Massuti, E., Quignard, J.P., Dulčić, J., Azzurro, E. (2013). CIESM-Atlas of Exotic Fishes - List [WWW Document]. 2013. URL. http://www.ciesm.org/atlas/appendix1.html. Accessed 15th September 2016.
  • Haas, G., Steinitz, H. (1947) Erythrean fishes on the Mediterranean coast of Palestine. Nature, 160, 28.
  • Kearse, M., Moir, R., Wilson, A., Stones-Havas, S., Cheung, M., Sturrock, S., Buxton, S., Cooper, A., Markowitz, S., Duran, C., Thierer, T., Ashton, B., Mentjies, P., Drummond, A. (2012). Geneious Basic: an integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data. Bioinformatics, 28, 1647-9.
  • Keskin, E., Atar, H.H. (2013). DNA barcoding commercially important fish species of Turkey. Molecular Ecology Resources, 13, 788-97.
  • Kimura, M. (1980). A simple method for estimating evolutionary rate of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences. Journal of Molecular Evolution, 16, 111-20.
  • Kocher, T.D., Thomas, W.K., Meyer, A., Edwards, S.V., Pääbo, S., Villablanca, F.X., Wilson, A.C. (1989). Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 86, 6196-200.
  • Nelson, J.S. (2006). Fishes of the World, 4th edn. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York.
  • Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A. & Galil, B. (2010). Marine alien species as an aspect of global change. Advances in Oceanography and Limnology, 1, 199-218.
  • Tamura K, Stecher G, Peterson D, Filipski A, and Kumar S (2013) MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 30, 2725-2729.
  • Turan, C., Erguden, D., Gürlek, M. (2016). Climate change and biodiversity effects in Turkish Seas. Natural and Engineering Sciences, 1(2), 15-24.
  • Tyler, J., Johnson, G., Brothers, E., Tyler, D., Smith, L. (1993). Comparative early life histories of western Atlantic squirrelfishes (Holocentridae): Age and settlement of rhynchichthys, meeki, and juvenile stages. Bulletin of Marine Science, 53, 1126-50.
  • Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S., Vella, N. (2015 a). Morphological and genetic barcoding study confirming the first Stegastes variabilis (Castelnau, 1855) report in the Mediterranean Sea. Mediterranean Marine Science, 16(3), 609-12.
  • Vella, A., Vella, N., Agius Darmanin, S. (2015 b). First record of Lutjanus fulviflamma (Osteichthyes: Lutjanidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 21(3), 307-15.
  • Vella, N., Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S. (2016 a). The first record of the lowfin chub Kyphosus vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) from Malta. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 22(2), 175-81.
  • Vella A, Vella N, Agius Darmanin S. (2016 b). The first record of the African sergeant, Abudefduf hoefleri (Perciformes: Pomacentridae), in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biodiversity Records, 9(1), 1-5.
  • Vella, A., Agius Darmanin, S., Vella, N. (2016 c). The first records of Indo-Pacific sergeant Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) and further notes on the occurrence of sergeant major A. saxatilis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Malta: expanding populations of an invasive genus in the Mediterranean Sea. Journal of the Black Sea & Mediterranean Environment, 22(1), 1-15.
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Adriana Vella This is me

Noel Vella This is me

Sandra Agius Darmanin This is me

Publication Date December 26, 2016
Submission Date January 18, 2017
Published in Issue Year 2016 Volume: 1 Issue: 3

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APA Vella, A., Vella, N., & Darmanin, S. A. (2016). The first record of the longjaw squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis (Osbeck, 1765) (Holocentriformes: Holocentridae), in the Mediterranean Sea. Natural and Engineering Sciences, 1(3), 78-85. https://doi.org/10.28978/nesciences.286371

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