A transparent invasion: a first Mediterranean record and an established population of the glassfish Ambassis dussumieri Cuvier 1828

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Published: Jan 27, 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.28769
Keywords:
Ambassidae Levant Basin Lessepsian invasion invasive species.
NIR STERN
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-3091
KFIR GAYER
School of Zoology, The George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7903-9562
ARSENIY MOROV
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Tel Shikmona, P.O. Box 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
Abstract

In this study, we document the first record of the glassfish Ambassis dussumieri in the Mediterranean Sea. Confirmation for taxonomic identity has been conducted using morphological and molecular approaches and was based on a sub-sample of six individuals that were collected from a large school that resides within an artificial protected bay of a local power plant in Tel Aviv, Israel. This unique occurrence of an undisturbed school of invasive species is hereby discussed.

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NIR STERN, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute
Ichthyologist at the department of marine biology, the national institute of oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute
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