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SINGLE PAPER

Volume 16, Issue 4 – 15 October 2010

Michel Bariche: Champsodon vorax (Teleostei: Champsodontidae), a new alien fish in the Mediterranean, pp. 197-200

Abstract

The Indo-Pacific gaper Champsodon vorax is reported for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Lebanon. This new alien species is considered to have established a population along the Levantine basin in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. A detailed description of the Mediterranean specimens is provided.