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Marine Biodiversity Records, page 1 of 3. # Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2014 doi:10.1017/S1755267214001316; Vol. 7; e130; 2014 Published online First record of the Red pandora Pagellus bellottii from Israel, south-eastern Mediterranean (Teleostei: Sparidae) ronald fricke1,2, daniel golani3, oren sonin4 and brenda appelbaum-golani5 1Im Ramstal 76, 97922 Lauda-Ko¨nigshofen, Germany, 2Staatliches Museum fu¨r Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany, 3National Natural History Collections and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel, 4Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Agriculture, P.O. Box 1213, Kiryat Haim 26105, Israel, 5Mt. Scopus Library, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91905 Jerusalem, Israel The Red pandora Pagellus bellottii was recorded for the first time in the south-eastern Mediterranean in Haifa Bay, Israel, on 20 January 2010. Apparently, this eastern Atlantic Ocean species has recently started to disperse into the eastern Mediterranean. After an initial record from Syria in 1992, this is the second record from the eastern Mediterranean, which indicates the possibility that small populations may have established themselves there. Keywords: Pagellus bellottii, Sparidae, Atlantic Ocean, first record, Mediterranean, new distribution Submitted 21 July 2014; accepted 30 October 2014 INTRODUCTION standard length; the species usually reaches 20–25 cm (Whitehead et al., 1986: 900). In the course of a survey of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel in Haifa Bay, an unusual sparid fish was collected in January MATERIAL AND METHODS 2010, which was determined to be a new record of Pagellus bellottii from Israel and the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea; the specimen is described herein. On 20 January 2010, a specimen of Pagellus bellottii was col- The genus Pagellus Valenciennes, in Cuvier and lected by commercial fishermen in the vicinity of Haifa Bay; Valenciennes, 1830 , is characterized by an elongately ovate or the exact collecting locality, depth and method of collection fusiform body, which is more or less compressed. The preopecle is unknown. The specimen has been deposited in the is scaleless and the mouth is terminal. In both jaws there is a Hebrew University Fish Collection (HUJ) and is registered band of conical and slender teeth in the front and at least two under the catalogue number HUJ 19914. Biometrical counts rows of molars at the back; the outer series of conical teeth are and measurements follow Hubbs & Lagler (1947); the classifi- a little enlarged and the inner (second) row of molars are the cation follows Eschmeyer (2014) and the references follow largest (Whitehead et al., 1986: 898). It comprises a total of six Fricke (2014). Subspecies are no longer recognized, following species (Eschmeyer, 2014): Pagellus acarne (Risso, 1827) from the method of Fricke et al. (2007: 6). the Mediterranean and north-eastern Atlantic; Pagellus affinis Boulenger, 1888 from the western Indian Ocean; Pagellus bellot- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION tii Steindachner, 1882, Pagellus bogaraveo (Bru¨nnich, 1768) and Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) from the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean; and Pagellus natalensis Steindachner, systematics 1903 from South Africa. Order PERCIFORMES Rafinesque, 1815 The Pagellus bellottii lives in the demersal zone of inshore Suborder PERCOIDEI Rafinesque, 1815 waters, in hard or sand bottom areas, from shallow waters to Family SPARIDAE Rafinesque, 1818 depths of 250 m. It is gregarious; for spawning it migrates Genus Pagellus Valenciennes in Cuvier and Valenciennes, towards the coast. The species is omnivorous, mainly carniv- 1830 orous and feeds on benthic invertebrates and small fish. Pagellus bellottii Steindachner, 1882 Reproduction occurs from May to November, depending on (Figure 1) the latitude; the species is a protogynous hermaphrodite. It Pagellus bellottii Steindachner, 1882a: 41 (Arglim Bank, reaches maturity at 1–4 years; females produce 60, 200– Canary Islands; Gore´e, Senegal). 406, 800 eggs (at 16–35 cm). The maximum size is 42 cm description Corresponding author: Biometrical counts see Table 1. Body oblong. Occipital scales R. Fricke extending forward to the level of the anterior margin of the Email: [email protected] eye. Molar teeth in two series. Upper gill rakers six, lower Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Athens, on 25 Sep 2021 at 16:05:07, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms1 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755267214001316 2ronaldfrickeet al. Table 1. Biometrical counts of Pagellus bellottii, HUJ 19914, 178.4 mm SL, vicinity of Haifa Bay, Israel. HUJ 19914, 178.4 mm SL Dorsal-fin spines XII Dorsal-fin rays 10 Anal-fin spines III Anal-fin rays 10 Pectoral-fin rays 15 Scale rows on opercle 8 Fig. 1. Lateral view of Pagellus bellottii, HUJ 19914, 178.4 mm standard length Lateral-line scales to caudal base 54–57 (SL), vicinity of Haifa Bay, Israel. Photograph by D. Golani. Scale bar: 50 mm. gill rakers ten. Dorsal-fin spines 12, fin-rays ten. Anal-fin compressed, and there is an absence of transverse stripes on spines three, fin-rays ten. Pectoral-fin rays 15. Opercle with the sides of the body (see Whitehead et al., 1986: 883, 898). eight rows of scales. Lateral-line scales 54–57 to caudal base Within the genus Pagellus, the species is characterized by (counts of left and right sides differing). the occipital scales, which reach beyond the centre of the eye, the inside of the mouth is whitish and the anal fin has colour ten rays (see Whitehead et al., 1986: 899–900). Pagellus bellottii has a distribution range in the eastern Body silvery in preservative, dorsal parts of body with small Atlantic Ocean (Gibraltar to Angola, including the Canary grey spots. Margin of opercle dark grey. Inside of mouth Islands), the south-western Mediterranean (Spain, Morocco whitish. Lower forehead, snout and suborbital region dark and Algeria) and the eastern Mediterranean (Syria and grey. Dorsal fin grey, with a distal dark grey margin. Anal Israel). The present new record from Israel and the south- fin grey. Caudal-fin rays yellow, membranes grey, with a eastern Mediterranean confirms the previous report from narrow distal dark grey margin. Pectoral fin yellow; pelvic-fin the eastern Mediterranean by Sbaihi & Saad (1992) and the membranes grey. establishment of this eastern Atlantic species in the eastern Mediterranean. Apparently, some eastern Atlantic species are in a process of dispersal into the Mediterranean; DISCUSSION they usually follow the coast of North Africa, first in the south-western Mediterranean and then also in the This species was first described by Steindachner (1882a: 41) eastern Mediterranean. Other examples of such species from eastern Atlantic localities (Arglim Bank, Canary include Acanthurus monroviae Steindachner, 1876 Islands and Gore´e, Senegal) and later described in more (ACANTHURIDAE), Carlarius parkii (Gu¨nther, 1864) detail by Steindachner (1882b: 5, pl. 3, Figure 1). It was (ARIIDAE), Cephalopholis taeniops (Valenciennes in Cuvier treated as a valid species by Bauchot and Hureau in and Valenciennes, 1828) (SERRANIDAE), Enchelycore Whitehead et al.(1986: 899) and Bauchot and Hureau in anatina (Lowe, 1838) (MURAENIDAE) and Solea senegalen- Que´ro et al.(1990: 804), who reported a distribution from sis Kaup, 1858 (SOLEIDAE) (see Ben-Tuvia & Golani, 1984; the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the south-western Golani, 2005; Golani et al., 2014). Mediterranean. Lucena et al.(1982) also recorded the species from southern Spain (under the name Pagellus coupei). The species was reported by Afonso et al.(1999: 75) and Wirtz et al.(2007: 35) from Sao Tome and Principe. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The species was recorded by Sbaihi & Saad (1992) from Syria, eastern Mediterranean Sea, and treated as an immigrant We would like to thank Mr Michael Zemel, owner of the from the eastern Atlantic and western Mediterranean by Saad trawler ‘Alia’, for the permission to investigate his trawl catch. (2005: 105). The eastern Mediterranean record from Syria was missed by Golani et al.(2002: 144–145). A specimen reported from South Africa by Orrell & Carpenter (2004: 428) was REFERENCES based on a misidentified Pagellus natalensis Steindachner, 1903. A record from the Cape Verde Islands by Reiner Afonso P., Porteiro F.M., Santos R.S., Barreiros J.P., Worms J. and (1996) was considered invalid by Wirtz et al. (2013: 126). Wirtz P. (1999) Coastal marine fishes of Sa˜o Tome´ Island (Gulf of Junior synonyms of Pagellus bellottii include Dentex cunin- Guinea). 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