“…Previous reports of xanthocroic fish include a wide taxonomic array of species both marine and freshwater. For illustration, this condition has been reported for marine fish families such as Carangidae (see Jawad and Ibrahim 2018), Pomacentridae (see Palacios-Salgado and Rojas-Herrera 2012), Serranidae (see Moe 1963, Schwartz 1978, Smith and Bullock 1979, Nemtzov et al 1993, Jawad and Al-Kharusi 2013, Jawad and Ibrahim 2018), Sebastidae (see Davenport 1966, Ueber 1989, Cripe 1998, and few families in the order Pleuronectiformes (see Dawson 1969, Moore and Posey 1974, Akyol and Şen 2012, Ulutürk et al 2015.…”