Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 50(1): 97-101, doi: 10.3750/AIEP/02734
First record of the doublebar seabream, Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Sparidae), in the Aegean Sea
T. Şensurat-Genç, D. Seyhan-Öztürk, Y. IwatsukiCorresponding author: T. Şensurat-Genç © T. Şensurat-Genç, D. Seyhan-Öztürk, Y. Iwatsuki. 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:
Şensurat-Genç T, Seyhan-Öztürk D, Iwatsuki Y (2020) First record of the doublebar seabream, Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Sparidae), in the Aegean Sea. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 50(1): 97-101. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/02734 |  |
Abstract
The present paper reports the second record of a Lessepsian migrant, Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål, 1775), in the Mediterranean Sea and first record from the Aegean Sea. The species is distinguished by the counts of 5½ scale rows between the fifth dorsal-fin spine and lateral line, dorsal and caudal fins yellow, without a dense black margin of dorsal-fin or narrow black edge along rear margin of caudal fin which is being diagnostic characters of this species.
Keywords
Sparidae, Lessepsian, Acanthopagrus, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, first Aegean record, second Mediterranean record