Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 45(3): 315-317, doi: 10.3750/AIP2015.45.3.11
First record of the fangtooth moray, Enchelycore anatina (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae), from Maltese waters, central Mediterranean
A. Deidun, D. Watson, L. Castriota, G. Mazza, L. PasolliCorresponding author: A. Deidun © A. Deidun, D. Watson, L. Castriota, G. Mazza, L. Pasolli. 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:
Deidun A, Watson D, Castriota L, Mazza G, Pasolli L (2015) First record of the fangtooth moray, Enchelycore anatina (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae), from Maltese waters, central Mediterranean. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 45(3): 315-317. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2015.45.3.11 |  |
Abstract
The fangtooth moray, Enchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1838), native to the eastern Atlantic Ocean but also known from eastern sections of the Mediterranean, is recorded for the first time from Maltese coastal waters in the central Mediterranean. This record is the westernmost one within the Mediterranean and the observed E. anatina individual co-occurred with an individual of Muraena helena Linnaeus, 1758.
Keywords
fish, new record, Atlantic Ocean, non-indigenous species, coastal waters, range-expanding species