Volume 26, Issue 78, July - December, 2025

First record of the Goatfish Species Parupeneus spilurus (Perciformes: Mullidae) in the Marine Waters of Syria, Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Nour G Baddour¹, Mohamad Y Galiya², Waad G Sabour³

¹Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
²Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
³Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria

ABSTRACT

During our ongoing-research project "Study of the Reproductive Biology and Food Spectrum of the Blue Spotted Cornet Fish Fistularia commersonii (Rüppell, 1838) and Chromis chromis (Linnaeus, 1758) in Syrian Marine Waters (Governorate of Latakia)," we conducted a dissection of the stomach of F. commersonii specimen caught on November 26, 2023. The fish had a total length of 82.6 cm and a weight of 200.24 g. During this examination, we observed and identified the species of goatfish, Parupeneus spilurus, which was recorded for the first time in the Syrian marine waters along the Eastern Mediterranean coast.

Keywords: Mullidae, Fistularia commersonii, Syrian marine waters

Species, 2025, 26(78), e30s3143

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v26i78.e30s3143

Published: 21 July 2025