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On the Occurrence of Kyphosus Sectator (Osteichthyes: Kyphosidae) in the Western Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Paolo Merella ,
Enric Massutí  and
Salud Deudero
Paolo Merella
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanogratía Centre Oceanogràfic de Balears, Moll de Ponent s/n, Apartado 291, 07080 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Enric Massutí
Affiliation:
Instituto Español de Oceanogratía Centre Oceanogràfic de Balears, Moll de Ponent s/n, Apartado 291, 07080 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Salud Deudero
Affiliation:
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Institut Mediterrani d'Estudis Avançats, Campus Universitari, 07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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The capture of a single specimen of Kyphosus sectator (Osteichthyes: Kyphosidae) is reported from the island of Mallorca. It represents the first record of this species in the Balearic Sea (western Mediterranean). Some aspects relative to its distribution and ecology are also given.

On 16 September 1996, a single specimen of Bermuda sea chub, Kyphosus sectator (Linnaeus, 1766) (Osteichthyes: Kyphosidae), was caught with a surrounding purse seine by an artisanal fishing vessel involved in the dolphin-fish (Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758) fishery carried out in Mallorcan waters (western Mediterranean) (Massutí & Morales-Nin, 1995). The set was made around drifting wooden flotsam, in waters approximately 600 m deep, and 9 nautical miles from the eastern coast of Mallorca (Figure 1). The surface temperature was approximately 23°C throughout the thermocline, down to a depth of 40 m (S. Devdero, unpublished data).

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , May 1998 , pp. 687 - 690
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1998

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