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First record of Boulenger's anthias Sacura boulengeri (Heemstra 1973) in the Red Sea |
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| Authors: | Viktor Nunes Peinemann Lucía Pombo-Ayora Jesse E M Cochran Fabio Marchese Giovanni Chimienti Mattie Rodrigue Ameer A Eweida Paul A Marshall Francesca Benzoni Michael L Berumen |
| Institution: | 1. Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia;2. Department of Biology, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
CoNISMa, Rome, Italy;3. OceanX, New York, New York, USA;4. Department of Nature Conservation, NEOM, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia |
| Abstract: | In November 2020, we observed several individuals and collected one juvenile of an unidentified anthiadine fish (Serranidae) between depths of 250 and 307 m near vertical walls of rocky reefs in the northern Red Sea. Further morphological and molecular analyses revealed that the collected specimen matches Sacura boulengeri, a species previously reported only from the Gulf of Oman to India. |
| Keywords: | range extension Rariphotic fishes Red Sea reef Serranidae submersible |