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The sampling site (solid dot) of Ophichthus rufus off the Portuguese coast

The sampling site (solid dot) of Ophichthus rufus off the Portuguese coast

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The first record of Ophichthus rufus (Rafinesque, 1810) in Portuguese continental waters is reported. In February 2013 two specimens were caught by a commercial bottom trawler on the southwestern Portuguese coast and in August 2019 another specimen was caught at the same location. Analyses of diagnostic morphological characters and morphometric cha...

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... specimens of Ophichthus rufus were caught on 27 February 2013 by a commercial bottom trawler in one bottom trawl haul, in the southwest Portuguese continental slope, targeting the deep-water rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris at a depth of 292 m (Fig. 1). Again, on 21 August 2019, another specimen of O. rufus was caught at the same location, by the same fishing vessel, and using the same fishing gear. In the laboratory, the three specimens were examined for diagnostic morphological and morphometric features following Bauchot (1986) and Casadevall (1991), and head pores (Böhlke ...
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... specimens of Ophichthus rufus were caught on 27 February 2013 by a commercial bottom trawler in one bottom trawl haul, in the southwest Portuguese continental slope, targeting the deep-water rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris at a depth of 292 m (Fig. 1). Again, on 21 August 2019, another specimen of O. rufus was caught at the same location, by the same fishing vessel, and using the same fishing gear. In the laboratory, the three specimens were examined for diagnostic morphological and morphometric features following Bauchot (1986) and Casadevall (1991), and head pores (Böhlke ...