Lappanella fasciata (Cocco, 1833)

González, José A., Martins, Albertino, Santana, José I., Triay-Portella, Raül, Monteiro, Carlos, García-Martín, Verónica, Jiménez, Sebastián, González-Lorenzo, Gustavo, Pajuelo, José G., Lorenzo, José M. & Biscoito, Manuel, 2014, New and rare records of teleost fishes from the Cape Verde Islands (eastern-central Atlantic Ocean), Cybium 38 (4), pp. 289-300 : 296

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.26028/cybium/2014-384-007

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13617497

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/103B87C6-FFDE-F53D-FCC1-119BFC1A0DD0

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scientific name

Lappanella fasciata (Cocco, 1833)
status

 

Lappanella fasciata (Cocco, 1833) View in CoL ( Fig. 2F View Figure 2 )

Material examined. ‑ MMF 42284, 158 mm TL, 140 mm SL, MMF 42812, 150 mm TL, 127 mm SL, 14°54’ N‑23 °34’W, East of Cidade Velha, Santiago Island , 108‑111 m, cruise Camarão-1, sta. 14-D2/14-D4, rocky bottom, 25/ 27 Nov. 2011, SFST GoogleMaps ; MMF GoogleMaps 48813, 172 mm TL, 146 mm SL, MMF 48814, 156 mm TL, 136 mm SL, 15°01’ N‑23 °44’W, Ponta Covinha, Santiago Island , 104‑112 m, cruise Camarão‑1, sta. 12‑D3, rocky bottom, 28 Nov. 2011, SFST GoogleMaps ; MMF GoogleMaps 42811, 167 mm TL, 140 mm SL, MMF 42810, 151 mm TL, 129 mm SL, 16°35’N 22°55’W, Baía de Santa Maria, Sal Island, 102‑105 m, cruise Camarão‑3, sta. 12‑D3, rocky bottom, 21 Jul. 2012, SFST GoogleMaps ; MMF GoogleMaps 42807, 141 mm TL, 120 mm SL, 16°44’N 23°01’W, Palmeira, Sal Island, 105‑ 125 m, cruise Camarão‑3, sta. 2‑D3, rocky bottom, 22 Jul. 2012, SFST GoogleMaps .

Remarks. - A subtropical reef-associated species, ranging from 35 m to 200 m depth ( Gomon and Forsyth, 1990), found in deep rocky areas ( Quignard and Pras, 1986; Froese and Pauly, 2014). It is known from the south‑western and central Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic it was known only from the Josephine Bank, Madeira and the Canary Islands ( Maul, 1949, 1976; Quignard and Pras, 1986; Brito et al., 2002; Dulčić et al., 2006). This is the first time this species is recorded from the Cape Verde Islands, which enlarges its area of distribution by 1400 km to the South. All specimens were collected in SFST, therefore indicating the benthopelagic nature of this species in these waters.

It is interesting to note that in the eastern Atlantic Ocean this species has a patchy distribution on islands and associated seamounts. Its continental counterpart, Lappanella guineensis Bauchot, 1969 , is so far restricted to Sierra Leone ( Bauchot, 1969; Gomon and Forsyth, 1990; Froese and Pauly, 2014). Assuming that these species are not cryptic to the point that have been overlooked along the West African coast, this rather eccentric distributions should foster a detailed genetic study of these two species, along all their areas of occurrence to shed some light on its colonization pattern.

MMF

Museu Municipal do Funchal

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Order

Perciformes

Family

Labridae

Genus

Lappanella

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