Abstract
BackgroundThe puffer fish species (Tetraodontidae) inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world, and some species exist in many parts of the Mediterranean Sea. In the Syrian marine waters (eastern Mediterranean), five species are known to exist but Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) was not recorded there before.MethodSamples were collected from a depth of 300 m off Banyas coast, Syria, using bottom longline, the morphometric measurements and meristic measurements were recorded.ResultsOne specimen of the oceanic puffer Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) was caught from the marine water of Syria.ConclusionThis is the first record of Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Syrian marine waters.
Highlights
The puffer fish species (Tetraodontidae) inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world, and some species exist in many parts of the Mediterranean Sea
The puffer fishes (Tetraodontidae) comprise 200 species belonging to 29 genera (Froese and Pauly 2019) that inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world (Bilecenoglu and Fernández-Álvarez 2013; Teker et al 2018)
The poisonous nature of this puffer fish is largely due to the tetrodotoxin (TTX) and paralytic saxitoxin contents of their internal organs
Summary
The puffer fishes (Tetraodontidae) comprise 200 species belonging to 29 genera (Froese and Pauly 2019) that inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world (Bilecenoglu and Fernández-Álvarez 2013; Teker et al 2018). Five Tetraodontid species [Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), Lagocephalus spadiceus (Richardson, 1845), Lagocephalus suezensis (Clark & Gohar, 1953), Sphoeroides pachygaster (Müller & Troschel, 1848) and Torquigener flavimaculosus (Hardy & Randall, 1983)] had been previously recorded (Rahman et al 2014; Galiya et al 2015; Ali 2018). The oceanic puffer Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) is a native tetraodontid species that can be found in many Mediterranean coasts (Froese and Pauly 2019), but had not been recorded before in the marine waters of Syria (Ali 2018). The present study reports that the oceanic puffer L. lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758) had been recorded in the Syrian marine waters
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