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Issue: Vol. 4254 No. 3: 18 Apr. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-04-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.8
Page range: 382–386
Abstract views: 53
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The Case of a Rudderfish Highlights the Role of Natural History Museums as Sentinels of Bio-invasions

Dept. STeBiCeF, Section of Animal Biology, University of Palermo, via Archirafi 18, Palermo,(Italy).
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Abstract

In September 2013 fishermen captured a rudderfish—Kyphosus vaigiensis—off Favignana Island, one of the islands of the Egadi Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA) in western Sicily (Mannino et al., 2015). This species is rarely sampled in the Mediterranean Sea.

 

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