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Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833
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Description
Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1833 —Oilfish
Taxonomy. First record from Lebanon as Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1829 by George et al. (1964: 20); subsequently recorded as Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco by Mouneimné (1977: 64); as Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco 1829 by Mouneimné (2002: 229). Recent unpublished records from Tyre, Sarafand, Saida, Beirut, Batroun, Tripoli (1998–2019). Material in collection: AUBM (OS3509).
Distribution. Circumglobal in tropical and temperate seas (including Mediterranean Sea).
Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 22 August 2012); Med. (LC: 16 November 2007). Capture and threats: FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Common. 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 68-69, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- LC
- Event date
- 2007-11-16
- Family
- Gempylidae
- Genus
- Ruvettus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cocco
- Species
- pretiosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2007-11-16/2012-08-22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020
References
- George, C. J., Athanassiou, V. A. & Boulos, I. (1964) The fishes of the coastal waters of Lebanon. Miscellaneous Papers in the Natural Sciences. The American University of Beirut, 4, 1 - 24.
- Mouneimne, N. (1977) Liste des poissons de la cote du Liban (Mediterranee orientale). Cybium, 3 (1), 37 - 66.
- Mouneimne, N. (2002) Poissons marins du Liban et de la Mediterranee orientale. INCAM-EU / CNRS Lebanon, Beyrouth, 271 pp.