Etrumeus Golanii (Actinopterygii: Clupeiformes: Dussumieriidae) a new lessepsian migrant recorded in Morocco, alboran sea (south-west mediterranean)

Abstract

The occurrence of a Lessepsian migrant, the Golani round herring, Etrumeus golanii DiBattista, Randall et Bowen, 2012, is reported here for the first time from the Alboran Sea (south-west Mediterranean). On May 2018, twenty individuals were caught by a commercial purse-seiner off Fnideq (Morocco), but fi ve females and two males, were kept by the fi sherman for further analyses. This new finding confi rms the expansion of this Lessepsian migrant throughout the Mediterranean Sea.