{"title":"New record and range expansion of a rare spatangoid species, Metalia persica (Mortensen, 1940) (Echinoidea, Brissidae) from the Oman Sea","authors":"Y. Fatemi","doi":"10.22092/IJFS.2020.122204","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the first record of Metalia persica, (Mortensen, 1940) from the Gulf of Oman. The new record extends geographical distribution range of this spatangoid species to the eastward. Morphological and ecological notes as well as the distribution range of M. persica are also provided.","PeriodicalId":14569,"journal":{"name":"Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences","volume":"19 1","pages":"2730-2734"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"97","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22092/IJFS.2020.122204","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"FISHERIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This paper presents the first record of Metalia persica, (Mortensen, 1940) from the Gulf of Oman. The new record extends geographical distribution range of this spatangoid species to the eastward. Morphological and ecological notes as well as the distribution range of M. persica are also provided.
期刊介绍:
1- Living various species (contains animals and vegetal species) in various aquatic ecosystems.
2- Health and diseases of aquatic species.
3- Determining the stocks and specific time and location for catching and reliable exploitation for sustainable development.
4- Methods of propagation and culture of high value aquatic resources.
5- Aquatic stock assessment and the methods of restocking the high value species and suggestion for rate, areas and the time for releasing fish and other aquatic organisms fries.
6- Pollutant agents and their effects to the environments of aquatic species.
7- Feed and feeding in aquatic organisms.
8- Fish processing and producing new products.
9- The economic and social aspects of fisheries.