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<mods:title>New and interesting records of marine fishes (Actinopterygii) from the Maltese Islands (central Mediterranean)</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName LSID="C3546854-3440-5B03-A9B1-0AC438B90BC8" authority="(Risso, 1810)" baseAuthorityName="Risso" baseAuthorityYear="1810" class="Actinopterygii" family="Bythitidae" genus="Grammonus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Grammonus ater" order="Ophidiiformes" pageId="0" pageNumber="215" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ater">Grammonus ater (Risso, 1810)</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Image grab from ROV footage collected on 20 June 2016 at a depth of 10 m (36 ° 01.106 ′ N, 014 ° 14.730 ′ E) showing an individual of Grammonus ater. Image: Enrique Talledo / OCEANA © LIFE BaĦAR for N 2 K." figureDoi="10.3897/aiep.52.89340.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/747673" pageId="0" pageNumber="215">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="215">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="215">Head not strongly depressed, eyes directed mainly laterally. No sharp spines at lower angle of preopercle. Opercle triangular, posterior edge angled and pointed only at upper edge. Snout blunt. Posterior angle of jaws ending behind vertical of eye posterior margin. Body and head uniformly dark brown.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="215">Remarks.</paragraph>
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A single individual of this species was recorded from the SCUBA surveys at a depth of 10 m within a cave (Fig.
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and Table
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).
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give the depth range for this species as 5-30 m and indicate that
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is associated with reef habitats. The present record, as well as two other local records reported in social media1, refer to this species as occurring within caves in shallow water. The occurrence of
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in the Maltese Islands has not been previously reported in the scientific literature. The majority of authors (e.g.,
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;
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<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122632" author="Bussotti, S" journalOrPublisher="Cybium" pageId="0" pageNumber="215" refId="B6" refString="Bussotti, S, Di Franco, A, Francour, P, Guidetti, P, 2015. Fish assemblages of Mediterranean marine caves. PLoS One 10(4): e0122632. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122632" title="Fish assemblages of Mediterranean marine caves. PLoS One 10 (4): e 0122632." url="https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122632" year="2015">Bussotti et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
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) consider this species to be speleophilic, while
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<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060557" author="Ragkousis, M" journalOrPublisher="Journal of Marine Science and Engineering" pageId="0" pageNumber="215" pagination=": 557" refId="B21" refString="Ragkousis, M, Digenis, M, Kovacic, M, Katsanevakis, S, Gerovasileiou, V, 2021. Rarely reported cryptobenthic fish in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9 (6): 557, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060557" title="Rarely reported cryptobenthic fish in marine caves of the eastern Mediterranean Sea." url="https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9060557" volume="9" year="2021">Ragkousis et al. (2021)</bibRefCitation>
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commented that it is only found in exclusively dark conditions.
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state that
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occurs in the eastern Atlantic, and from the Balearic Islands to the Adriatic in the Mediterranean. On the other hand,
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note that its occurrence in the Azores Archipelago remains unconfirmed, while recent studies give records for this species from Crete and Cyprus. The distribution of
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, which is considered to be a Mediterranean endemic, has therefore been updated to extend from Spain to Cyprus, having been reported from 23 marine caves in Spain, France, Italy, Croatia, Greece, and Cyprus (
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), and from at least one cave in Malta (Table
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="215">Table 3.</emphasis>
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Individuals of
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and
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="215" rowspan="1">20 June 2016</td>
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<td colspan="1" pageId="0" pageNumber="215" rowspan="1">23 June 2015</td>
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Image grab from ROV footage collected on 20 June 2016 at a depth of 10 m (
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. Image: Enrique Talledo/OCEANA© LIFE
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