First Record and Range Extension of the Twinspot Bass Serranus Flaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae) in the Gulf of Mexico

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First record and range extension of the twinspot bass Serranus flaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae) in the Gulf of Mexico

Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno & Rigoberto Moreno-Mendoza

To cite this article: Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno & Rigoberto Moreno-Mendoza (2019) First record and range extension of the twinspot bass Serranusflaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae) in the Gulf of Mexico, Marine Biology Research, 15:2, 159-162, DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2019.1607386 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2019.1607386

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SHORT REPORT First record and range extension of the twinspot bass Serranus ﬂaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae) in the Gulf of Mexico Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno a and Rigoberto Moreno-Mendozab* aCentro Regional de Investigación Pesquera, Lerma-Campeche, Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuacultura, Campeche, Mexico; bIndependent Researcher, Cancun, Mexico

ABSTRACT ARTICLE HISTORY Serranus ﬂaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) is a common species wide distributed and documented in the Received 26 October 2017 Greater Caribbean and South America. Four specimens were captured at 1 m depth in Accepted 25 January 2019 Seybaplaya, Campeche, Mexico, in August and September 2017. The present note constitutes Published online 30 April the ﬁrst record for Mexico and extends the previous distribution of the species in about 2019 1100 km, from the Greater Caribbean and South America into the Gulf of Mexico. SUBJECT EDITOR Christopher Kenaley

KEYWORDS Dwarf bass; Ichthyofauna; Campeche Bank; Western Atlantic; ﬁsh

Introduction Material and methods The family Serranidae comprises 5 subfamilies, 73 Four specimens of the twinspot dwarf bass (Serranus genera and 522 species that are distributed in tropical flaviventris) were collected at night at a depth of 1 and temperate seas worldwide (Burhanuddin et al. m, over seagrass bed (Thalassia testudinum), with an 2017). Thirty species of the genus Serranus are cur- artisan net, usually used for fishing pink shrimp juven- rently recognized, 22 of which inhabit the Atlantic iles, consisting of a triangle made of wood that carries Ocean (Wirtz & Iwamoto 2016). Fourteen species of a trawl net with a mesh aperture of 0.6 cm. The first the genus are recorded in the western Atlantic (Heem- specimen was caught on August 22nd 2017 and the stra et al. 2002; McEachran 2009; Carvalho-Filio and other three on September 20th 2017 (Figure 1), in Sey- Ferreira 2013; Wirtz & Iwamoto 2016), eight of which: baplaya, Campeche Bank, Mexico (Figure 2). The speci- Serranus annularis (Günter, 1880), S. atrobranchus mens were photographed and preserved in 70% (Cuvier, 1829), S. baldwini (Evermann & Marsh, 1899), alcohol. The identification was based on the key of S. phoebe (Poey, 1851), S. subligarius (Cope, 1870), Heemstra et al. (2002) and Robertson and Van S. tabacarius (Cuvier, 1829), S. tigrinus (Bloch, 1790) Tassell (2015). The fishes were measured and point- and S. tortugarum (Longley, 1935), have been reported to-point measurements were taken on the left side in Mexican Atlantic and Caribbean waters (Schmitter- of each specimen using a digital calliper with an accu- Soto et al. 2000; González-Gándara and Arias-González racy of 0.01 mm and rounded to the nearest 0.1 mm. 2001; Del Moral-Flores et al. 2013; Robertson et al. Meristic abbreviations are: A, for anal fin; C, for 2016). Serranus flaviventris (Cuvier, 1829)isa caudal fin; D, for dorsal fin; P, for pectoral fin; and V, common species widely distributed and reported for pelvic fin. The description of body colour was from the Greater Caribbean and South America (Wein- based on live specimens. All measurements are stein and Heck 1979; Meisler 1987; Heemstra et al. given in mm or standard length proportion (SL %). 2002; Pina-Amargós et al. 2012). In this paper, we Specimens mentioned in this work were deposited report the first record of S. flaviventris from Mexico, in the Unidad Académica de Ciencia y Tecnología de extending its previous distribution into the Gulf of Yucatán-UNAM Fish Collection YUC-PEC-239-01-11, Mexico. under the code CIRR-494 (specimen collected on

CONTACT Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno [email protected]; [email protected] Centro Regional de Investigación Pesquera, Lerma- Campeche, INAPESCA, Carretera Campeche-Lerma km 5 s/n, Campeche C.P. 24500, Mexico *Present address: Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile. © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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