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Micromesistius poutassou

Description

Micromesistius poutassou (Risso 1827) —Blue whiting

Taxonomy. New record from Lebanon, based on a specimen collected from off Sarafand (9 August 2019). Material in collection: AUBM (OS3971).

Distribution. Western Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Black Sea, northeastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard and Barents Sea south to Morocco; northwestern Atlantic.

Conservation. IUCN: Global (NE); Med. (LC: 13 November 2007). Capture and threats: Unknown. Occurrence: Very rare. Low priority for conservation action.

Notes

Published as part of Bariche, Michel & Fricke, Ronald, 2020, The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status, pp. 1-157 in Zootaxa 4775 (1) on pages 45-46, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3983887

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
AUBM , LC
Event date
2007-11-13 , 2019-08-09
Family
Gadidae
Genus
Micromesistius
Kingdom
Animalia
Material sample ID
OS3971
Order
Gadiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Risso
Species
poutassou
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2007-11-13 , 2019-08-09
Taxonomic concept label
Micromesistius poutassou (Risso, 1827) sec. Bariche & Fricke, 2020