This volume presents a fully illustrated field guide for the identification of the sharks and rays
most relevant to the fisheries of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. An extensive literature …

This collaborative effort by many specialists across the Mediterranean presents an updated
annotated list of alien marine species in the Mediterranean Sea. Alien species have been …

An updated checklist of marine ichthyofauna that are recorded to date, from Syrian marine
water including 297 species (belonging to 220 genera, 111 families, 36 orders, and 3 …

on several occasions, the need has been expressed to improve the identification of the
macroscopic maturity stages through a standardization of operational procedures and …

The present work is an update of the annotated list (ZENETOS et al., 2006) based on
literature up to April 2008. Emphasis is given to ecofunctional/taxonomic groups poorly …

A check-list of bony fish in the Mediterranean coast of Syria was carried out. It appeared that
the marine fish fauna in this area is dominated by the family of Sparidae (9.82%) …

In this paper we update the Mediterranean fish inventory, analyse the biogeographic
features of this fauna and provideexhaustive biodiversity data for the Ligurian and …

Abstract Centrophorus uyato (Rafinesque, 1810) has a complicated nomenclatural history
which has led to multiple scientific names being ascribed to this species. In the …

Analysing large pelagic fisheries data from the open waters of the southeastern
Mediterranean Sea during 1998 to 2005, we identified no more than 10 species of large …

The aim of this study is to contribute to a better knowledge of cartilaginous fish in the
Lebanese coastal waters, Eastern Mediterranean. Emphasis was placed on various aspects …