Additional Records of Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790), from the Eastern Mediterranean
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Additional Records of Tripletail Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790), from the Eastern Mediterranean Vasileios Minasidis 1 & Nikolaos Doumpas 1 & Periklis Kleitou 1,2 & Roxani Naasan Aga Spryridopoulou 1 & Paschalis Papadamakis 3 & Ioannis Giovos 1,2 Received: 3 April 2020 / Revised: 3 August 2020 / Accepted: 5 August 2020 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract In the Mediterranean Sea, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) is considered as a rare species, albeit an increasing number of individual-based sightings published in the literature. In this study, we present 32 additional records of this thermophilic species from the Greek and Cypriot waters; reinforcing the evidence that the species is becoming more common to the region. All of the records were collected as part of the citizen science project “Is it Alien to you? Share it!!!” by a participatory process involving fishers and taxonomic experts. This work highlights the important role of citizen science as a tool for public engagement and for monitoring species distribution in a changing environment, like the Mediterranean basin. Keywords Lobotidae . Eastern Mediterranean Sea . Citizen science . Monitoring . Rare species
Introduction The Atlantic tripletail or tripletail, Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790), is a marine species found in tropical and subtropical waters of all oceans; in the western Atlantic from New England southward to Argentina (Carpenter 2003) and Falkland Islands (Carpenter and Robertson 2015), in the eastern Atlantic from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Gulf of Guinea and Madeira (Carpenter and Johnson 2016), in the IndoPacific from East Africa through all countries of Southeast Asia north to Taiwan Province of China and southern Japan, northern Australia to southern Queensland, New Guinea to New Britain, and south to Fiji, except eastern Pacific (Florida Museum of Natural History 2005). It is a demersal and thermophilic species (Riede 2004) that lives at depths from 0 to 70 m (Fricke et al. 2011), usually shallower than 10 m, and with preference to brackish waters (Myers 1999; Kuiter and Tonozuka 2001). The maximum length reported is * Vasileios Minasidis [email protected] 1
iSea, Environmental Organisation for the Preservation of the Aquatic Ecosystems, Ochi Av. 11, 55438 Agios Paulos, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Marine and Environmental Research (MER) Lab Ltd., 202 Amathountos Av., Marina Gardens, Block B, Offices #13-14, Parekklisia, 4533 Limassol, Cyprus
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Fisheries Research Institute, 64007 Nea Peramos, Kavala, Greece
110 cm (Robins and Ray 1986), normally ranging between 40 and 80 cm (Bouhlel 1988). The color of the fish is green-grey, darker in the top and lighter in the belly, with yellowish shades all over the body (Heemstra 1986). Juveniles are mottled with yellowish, brownish and black blotches, while adults can show a more uniform color, dark brown, greyish or blackish. Its common name “tripletail” comes from the dorsal and anal fins, that are more flattened, looking like extra tails (Smith 1997). L. surina
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