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Additional record of Sphoeroides pachygaster (Pisces: Tetraodontidae) in the Tyrrhenian Sea and notes on the distribution of the species in the Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2009

P.N. Psomadakis ,
P. Ceddia  and
M. Vacchi
P.N. Psomadakis*
Affiliation:
ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via di Casalotti 300, 1-00166 Roma, Italy
P. Ceddia
Affiliation:
Servizio Veterinario ASL RM/H, Area Funzionale B di Igiene degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Borgo Garibaldi 12, 00041 Albano Laziale (RM), Italy
M. Vacchi
Affiliation:
Servizio Veterinario ASL RM/H, Area Funzionale B di Igiene degli Alimenti di Origine Animale, Borgo Garibaldi 12, 00041 Albano Laziale (RM), Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: P.N. Psomadakis, ICRAM, Istituto Centrale per la, Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare, Via di Casalotti 300, I-00166 Roma, Italy email: peterpsomadakis@inwind.it
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Abstract

One specimen of smooth puffer, Sphoeroides pachygaster, was caught by a bottom trawler off the coast of Anzio in the central Tyrrhenian Sea. The present finding represents the first occurrence of the species in the central Tyrrhenian Sea and the third specimen recorded in the whole Tyrrhenian basin. Data on the morphometry and meristics of our specimen are given and some remarks about the geographical distribution of the species in the Mediterranean is presented.

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e18
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2006

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