Blackmouth catshark

distribution

Distribution. Baltic Sea, North Sea, Mediterranean Sea, eastern North Atlantic: Faroe Islands and Norway to Senegal. Conservation. IUCN: Global (LC: 1 October 2003); Med. (LC: 25 March 2016). Capture and threats: FIT, FIB, unknown. Occurrence: Rare. Medium priority for conservation action.

The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status

distribution

Distribution. Northeastern Atlantic, Mediterranean; depth range 55 – 1873 m.

A checklist of the deep sea fishes of the Levant Sea, Mediterranean Sea

discussion

TL ranged between 27 and 63 cm for males and between 32 and 70 cm for females. Common TL ranged from 41 to 50 cm for males and from 44 to 55 cm for females. G. meastomus was recorded in all months of year. Percentage of females catches was 53.9 %. Its caught appeared no significant difference between seasons (X 2 = 10.800, P = 0.013), peak season of landing was in autumn (Fig. 2 e), while a peak season of juveniles landing was in winter (Fig. 3 e). [19] noted that males and females of G. melastomus matured at 38 and 43 cm TL, respectively. Based on this information, immature males and females constituted about 10 % and 21 %, respectively. (Fig. 4 e).

Species Composition, Diversity and Length Frequency of By-Catch Sharks from the Syrian Coast

Galeus melastomus Rafinesque 1810

Galeus melastomus Rafinesque, 1810 Galeus melastomus: Ben-Tuvia, 1971a; Baranes, 1979 (Heb.); Golani, 1987b; Darom & Tsurnamal, 1992 (Heb.); Hornung, Krom, Cohen & Bernhard, 1993 (Poll.); Hornung, Sukenik & Gabrielides, 1994 (Poll.); Golani, 1996; Pisanty & Golani, 1996; Golani, 1997 (Heb.); Goren & Galil, 2002; Galil, 2004; Golani, 2005; Golani, 2006; Paz et al. 2018 (gen.). Galeus melanostomus: Baranes & Diamant, 1983a (Heb.) .

An updated Checklist of the Mediterranean fishes of Israel, with illustrations of recently recorded species and delineation of Lessepsian migrants