The first record of fangtooth moray Enchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1839) in the Adriatic Sea

Lipej, Lovrenc; Furlan, Borut; Antolović, Nenad; Golani, Daniel; Dulčić, Jakov

doi:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2011.01816.x

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“…All published sightings up to 2007 come from the southern Aegean and the Levantine Sea (Guidetti et al, 2012 and references therein). The present record of E. anatina can be considered as the third published report from Greek territorial waters, and confirms the presence of this species in the eastern Ionian Sea, following recent sightings in the Adriatic (Lipej et al, 2011) and western Ionian (Guidetti et al, 2012). In addition, it provides further information regarding the westward expansion pathway of this species in the Mediterranean basin since its initial sighting in the Levantine Sea.…”

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New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (April, 2014)

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According to reports, the following 16 species have extended their distribution to other Mediterranean areas or have made a new appearance in other regions. The first category includes the following organisms: The rare and common Indo-Pacific seaweed Codium arabicum (Lebanese coasts), the acari Thalassarachna affinis (Marmara Sea), and the non-indigenous nudibranch Flabellina rubrolineata, which has been found in several areas of the Aegean Sea. In addition, the rare sea slug Thecacera pennigera (Mar Piccolo of Taranto), the fangtooth moray Enchelycore anatina (National Marine Park of Zakynthos, Ionian Sea), the carangid Seriola fasciata (Gulf of Antalya), Lagocephalus sceleratus (SE Ionian Sea), the reticulated leatherjacket Stephanolepis diaspros (Slovenia, N. Adriatic Sea), the marbled stingray, Dasyatis marmorata (NE Levantine), the starry smooth-hound Mustelus asterias (Iskenderun Bay, NE Mediterranean), the cephalopod Ommastrephes bartramii (Ionian Sea) have also been reported. The Atlantic crab Dyspanopeus sayi has expanded to many Italian areas and the blue crab Callinectes sapidus to a lake in N. Greece and in the S. Adriatic Sea. Finally, Farfantepenaeus aztecus has been found in the Ionian Sea, thus showing its wide expansion in the Mediterranean. The larval stages of Faccionella oxyrhyncha have been found, after many years, in the Aegean Sea and the first report of an existence on intersexual acari Litarachna duboscqi in Split (Adriatic Sea) was reported.

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“…Light-brown head dappled with small yellow spots, a yellow lower jaw, and inconspicuous jaw pores. The morphology of the observed specimens, thus, conforms to the description by Ben-Tuvia & Golani (1984) and Böhlke (2002) and agrees with other sightings in the Mediterranean (Lipej et al, 2011;Guidetti et al, 2012). Since both specimens were partly concealed, the length was difficult to estimate but appeared to conform to the lengths (73 -91 cm) given in Ben-Tuvia & Golani (1984).…”

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First record of the moray eel Enchelycore anatina (Muraenidae, Anguilliformes) from the Messinian coast (Peloponnese, Greece)

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Mar. Biodivers. Rec.

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The presence of the moray eel Enchelycore anatina is reported for the first time in the shallow coastal waters south of Koroni (south-western Greece). The occurrence of the moray bridges the gap in the findings of morays from Elafonisos Island to the east and the Apulian coast to the north-west. The eastward expansion in the range of this Atlantic species is discussed in relation to Mediterranean current patterns.

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“…The previous record in temporal terms, from this point of view, was the one from Croatia (Lipej et al, 2011), i.e. from the eastern side of the Adriatic Sea, which involves that the species could have 'jumped' the east Adriatic in a south-west direction.…”

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