First records of the slender snipe eel, Nemichthys scolopaceus (Nemichthyidae), and the robust cusk-eel, Benthocometes robustus (Ophidiidae), from the Aegean Sea
Articles > Article ยท 2006
Authors: Murat Bilecenoglu, Murat Kaya, Erhan Irmak
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, International, Scopus, 2006, vol 36, pp 85-88
Summary
Background. Two species previously unrecorded from the Aegean Sea, Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 and Benthocometes robustus (Goode et Bean, 1886), were captured during a bottom trawl off the Marmaris coasts (Turkey). These new records represent respectively the easternmost occurrence of N. scolopaceus and the second record of B. robustus from the eastern Mediterranean Basin.