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On the Occurrence of Parablennius Sanguinolentus (Pisces: Blenniidae) on the Portuguese Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Emanuel J. Gonçalves ,
Vitor C. Almada ,
Armando J. Almeida  and
Rui F. De Oliveira
Emanuel J. Gonçalves
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Estrada do Guincho, 2750 Cascais, Portugal. Unidade de Investigaçāo em Eco-Etologia, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Rua Jardim do Tabaco 44, 1100 Lisboa, Portugal
Vitor C. Almada
Affiliation:
Unidade de Investigaçāo em Eco-Etologia, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Rua Jardim do Tabaco 44, 1100 Lisboa, Portugal
Armando J. Almeida
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Estrada do Guincho, 2750 Cascais, Portugal.
Rui F. De Oliveira
Affiliation:
Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, Laboratório Marítimo da Guia, Estrada do Guincho, 2750 Cascais, Portugal. Unidade de Investigaçāo em Eco-Etologia, Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Rua Jardim do Tabaco 44, 1100 Lisboa, Portugal
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In this paper we report for the first time the occurrence of Parablennius sanguinolentus in mainland Portuguese waters. Since this species is common in the Mediterranean and in the Bay of Biscay, there appears to be a distributional gap along the Portuguese coast. The present finding, together with recent data on the occurrence of several other blenniids in the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula, formerly supposed to be Mediterranean endemics, stresses the urgent need for detailed zoogeographical investigations on the inshore fish fauna of south-west Europe.

Parablennius sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1811) is widespread in the Mediterranean (Zander, 1986). On the Atlantic coast of Europe, however, it was known only from the Bay of Biscay where it is abundant in some places (Motos & Ibañez, 1979), from the north-west coast of Spain (Devesa et al., 1979) and recently from the Atlantic coast of Andalucía (Spain) (Rubio, 1991). It is also very common in the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands if one assumes that P. parvicornis (Valenciennes, 1836) belongs to the same species, but this is as yet an unresolved issue (Zander, 1979; Almeida & Harmelin-Vivien, 1983; Bath, 1990; Santos, 1992). Although Zander (1986) presented a distributional map that includes the mainland Portuguese coast, no report on the occurrence of this species was known for this area. In a survey of the literature on the blennioid fishes occurring in Portuguese waters, we could not find a single citation that could possibly be ascribed to P. sanguinolentus for mainland Portugal (Oliveira et al., 1992).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , May 1993 , pp. 465 - 467
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1993

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