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Schedophilus ovalis
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Description
Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier 1833) —Imperial blackfish
Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on a specimen landed from off Beirut (8 May 2008) and another one landed in Batroun (1 July 2013). Material in collection: AUBM (OS3513; OS3967).
Distribution. Mediterranean Sea, eastern Atlantic: Galicia (Spain) south to South Africa, including Azores and Canary Islands; straying to Bermuda (western Atlantic).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (NE); Med. (LC: 15 November 2007). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Low priority for conservation action.
Notes
Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 64-66, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- AUBM
- Event date
- 2008-05-08
- Family
- Centrolophidae
- Genus
- Schedophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- OS3513, OS3967
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cuvier
- Species
- ovalis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2008-05-08/2013-07-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier, 1833) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020