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First record of the yellow sea chub Kyphosus incisor in the Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2010

Lidia Orsi Relini*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse (Dip.Te.Ris.), Università di Genova, Corso Europa, 26 16132 Genova, Italy
Maria Rosa Costa
Affiliation:
Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse (Dip.Te.Ris.), Università di Genova, Corso Europa, 26 16132 Genova, Italy
Marco Relini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento per lo Studio del Territorio e delle sue Risorse (Dip.Te.Ris.), Università di Genova, Corso Europa, 26 16132 Genova, Italy
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Correspondence should be addressed to: L. Orsi Relini, Dipartimento per lo Studio del, Territorio e delle sue Risorse (Dip.Te.Ris.), Università di Genova, Corso Europa, 26 16132 Genova, Italy email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The presence of herbivorous fish of the family Kyphosidae in the Mediterranean has increased with the first record of the species Kyphosus incisor which occurred in July 2009 at Camogli, eastern Ligurian Riviera.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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