Year-round high abundances of the world’s smallest marine vertebrate (Schindleria) in the Red Sea and worldwide associations with lunar phases Vanessa Robitzch (
[email protected] ) Austral University of Chile Victor Molina-Valdivia University of Valparaíso Jaiber Solano-Iguaran Austral University of Chile Mauricio Landaeta University of Valparaíso Michael Lee Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Research Article Keywords: coral reef sh, reproduction, light traps, otoliths, paedomorphism, Saudi Arabia Posted Date: March 19th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-267432/v1 License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Scientic Reports on July 12th, 2021. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93800-w. 1 Title: Year-round high abundances of the world’s smallest marine vertebrate 2 (Schindleria) in the Red Sea and worldwide associations with lunar phases 3 4 Vanessa Robitzch1,2,*, Victor Molina-Valdivia3, Jaiber J. Solano-Iguaran2,4, Mauricio 5 Landaeta3,5, & Michael L. Berumen1 6 7 1Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, 8 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia; 2Instituto 9 de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Austral de Chile, 10 Casilla 567, Valdivia, Chile; 3Laboratorio de Ictioplancton (LABITI), Instituto de