First record and range extension of the twinspot bass Serranus flaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Serranidae) in the Gulf of Mexico

ABSTRACT

Serranus flaviventris (Cuvier, 1829) is a common species wide distributed and documented in the Greater Caribbean and South America. Four specimens were captured at 1 m depth in Seybaplaya, Campeche, Mexico, in August and September 2017. The present note constitutes the first record for Mexico and extends the previous distribution of the species in about 1100 km, from the Greater Caribbean and South America into the Gulf of Mexico.

SUBJECT EDITOR:

• Christopher Kenaley

KEYWORDS:

• Dwarf bass
• Ichthyofauna
• Campeche Bank
• Western Atlantic
• fish

Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the technicians from the Centro Regional de Investigación Acuicola y Pesquera- Lerma INAPESCA (Diego Hau Pacheco and Brailosky Javier Ortega Puch), to Ross Robertson for reviewing and validating the photographs of the specimens and to the curator of the Unidad Académica de Ciencia y Tecnología de Yucatán-UNAM fish collection M.Sc. Alfredo Gallardo Torres. This paper was financed by the Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuacultura through the project ‘Análisis y seguimiento del recurso camarón rosado (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) en la sonda de Campeche’.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Luis Daniel Santana-Moreno http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0638-8590

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuacultura.