Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 50(4): 539-542, doi: 10.3750/AIEP/03066
Orthopristis chrysoptera (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae): A new alien fish for the Mediterranean Sea
expand article infoF. Tiralongo, C. Isgrò, D. Tibullo

Corresponding author: F. Tiralongo

© F. Tiralongo, C. Isgrò, D. Tibullo.
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: Tiralongo F, Isgrò C, Tibullo D (2020) Orthopristis chrysoptera (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Haemulidae): A new alien fish for the Mediterranean Sea. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 50(4): 539-542. https://doi.org/10.3750/AIEP/03066
Open Access
Abstract
An individual of Pigfish, Orthopristis chrysoptera (Linnaeus, 1766), is recorded for the first time for the Mediterranean Sea, raising to six the number of species of the family Haemulidae in the basin. The fish was caught on 12 September 2020 in the harbor of Siracusa (Ionian Sea) by an angler and had an estimated total length of about 16 cm. Possible pathways of introduction and the importance of citizen science for the early detection of alien fish are discussed.
Keywords
Ionian Sea, grunts, citizen science, non-indigenous fish, early detection