The arrival of a second ‘Lessepsian sprinter’? A first record of the red cornetfish Fistularia petimba in the Eastern Mediterranean


NIR STERN
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4834-3091
GUY PAZ
YANA YUDKOVSKY
HADAS LUBINEVSKY
BARUCH RINKEVICH
Abstract

Here we document the first occurrence of the red cornetfish Fistularia petimba in the Levantine Basin. This species identity has been confirmed using morphological and molecular tools, and is presented here with simplified illustrations for accurate future identification. This report voices a concern regarding another blitz invasion of a cornetfish into the Mediterranean, following its Lessepsian sprinter congeneric, F. commersonii, one of the most efficacious invaders of the Mediterranean Sea. The wide intra-specific genetic distances found between sympatric F. petimba specimens in the available literature resources may also demonstrate the presence of cryptic diversity within this taxon.

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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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