Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria (May 2009)

First record of pignosed arrowtooth eel, Dysomma brevirostre (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Synaphobranchidae), from the Aegean Sea

  • I. Aydin,
  • S.C. Akçinar,
  • O. Soykan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3750/AIP2009.39.1.10
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 39, no. 1
pp. 51 – 53

Abstract

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In 2008, a specimen of a pignosed arrowtooth eel, Dysomma brevirostre (Facciolà, 1887), was caught by a bottom trawling operation at Sigacik Bay (Aegean Sea), Turkey. Total length (TL) and weight of the fish were 23.2 cm and 2.00 g, respectively. This study reports the first record of D. brevirostre from the Aegean Sea and logs a new species for the Turkish Ichthyofauna.

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