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Abstract

For decades, the Mediterranean Sea received many invasive marine biota, which found their corridors to the Mediterranean environment through various ways, benefiting from the climate changes. On March 2019, a field trip was performed in the marine waters facing Banyas city, Syria, a specimen of the spotfin cardinal fish Jaydia queketti (Gilchrist, 1903) was caught. This record fills the gap in the species distribution along the eastern Mediterranean; between northern (Iskenderun Bay) and southern (Ashdod) coasts, and it is considered as the first report of this fish in the Syrian marine waters.

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Invasive species Red Sea Mediterranean Sea Biodiversity.

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ALSHAWY, F., IBRAHIM, A., HUSSEIN, C., & LAHLAH, M. (2019). First record of the spotfin cardinal fish Jaydia queketti (Gilchrist, 1903) (Teleostei: Apogonidae) from the Syrian marine waters (Eastern Mediterranean). Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 6(2), 138–142. https://doi.org/10.22034/iji.v6i2.406

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