First confirmed record of Zu cristatus in the Mediterranean coast of Israel and the eastern shores of the Levant

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Published: Jan 27, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.30976
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Zu cristatus Mediterranean Israel record
DANIEL GOLANI
National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
DOR EDELIST
The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa University, Israel
ARSENIY R. MOROV
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel
NIR STERN
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, National Institute of Oceanography, Haifa, Israel
Abstract

In the present paper we report the first substantiated record of the Scalloped ribbonfish Zu cristatus (Bonelli, 1819) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The previous unsubstantiated record from Israel was based on a juvenile specimen that was found on the shore over seven decades ago and was not saved. This report constitutes the first confirmed record of this species from the Levant.

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