Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 36(1): 85-88, doi: 10.3750/AIP2006.36.1.13
First records of the slender snipe eel, Nemichthys scolopaceus (Nemichthyidae), and the robust cusk-eel, Benthocometes robustus (Ophidiidae), from the Aegean Sea
M. Bilecenoglu, M. Kaya, E. IrmakCorresponding author: M. Bilecenoglu © M. Bilecenoglu, M. Kaya, E. Irmak. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Bilecenoglu M, Kaya M, Irmak E (2006) First records of the slender snipe eel, Nemichthys scolopaceus (Nemichthyidae), and the robust cusk-eel, Benthocometes robustus (Ophidiidae), from the Aegean Sea. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 36(1): 85-88. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2006.36.1.13 |  |
Abstract
Background. Two species previously unrecorded from the Aegean Sea, Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 and Benthocometes robustus (Goode et Bean, 1886), were captured during a bottom trawl off the Marmaris coasts (Turkey). These new records represent respectively the easternmost occurrence of N. scolopaceus and the second record of B. robustus from the eastern Mediterranean Basin.
Keywords
fish, zoogeography, Nemichthys scolopaceus, Nemichthyidae, Benthocometes robustus, Ophidiidae, Aegean Sea, new record