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Further evidence of the establishment of Fistularia commersonii (Osteichthyes: Fistulariidae) in the north-western Mediterranean Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2011

Pascaline Bodilis ,
Hazel Arceo  and
Patrice Francour
Pascaline Bodilis*
Affiliation:
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, ECOMERS Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06 108 Nice Cedex 02, France
Hazel Arceo
Affiliation:
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, ECOMERS Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06 108 Nice Cedex 02, France
Patrice Francour
Affiliation:
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, ECOMERS Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06 108 Nice Cedex 02, France
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: P. Bodilis, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, ECOMERS Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences, Parc Valrose, 06 108 Nice Cedex 02, France email: pascaline.bodilis@unice.fr
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Abstract

Between October and November 2010, several individuals of Fistularia commersonii, a lessepsian species, were fished by trammel nets in less than two weeks along the French coast in the north-western Mediterranean. These catches represent the most important records of the species in the western basin of the Mediterranean to date, specifically in areas where the species has rarely been observed before. This paper synthesizes the records of F. commersonii along the French coast starting from the first record in November 2007 until the most recent reports, and discusses the present status of the species in the north-western Mediterranean Sea.

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Fistularia commersoniilessepsian speciesFrench Mediterranean coastspreadinglessepsian migration

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 4 , December 2011 , e18
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2011

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