New additions to black and white fish mutants

In this short note we present unique and new records of a marine fish pigmentation abnormalities, including a case of an albino-melanistic fish, combining leucism and melanism, the first record of a leucistic individual of the iconic and critically endangered great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran...

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Published in:Ecological Indicators
Main Authors: Jorge Fontes, Joeva Dachelet, Ricardo Serrão Santos, Bruno C.L. Macena, Pedro Afonso
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023
Subjects:
Marine fish
Albino-melanistic
Leucism
Melanism
Pigmentation
Ecology
QH540-549.5
North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2023.110295
https://doaj.org/article/a7e6124a3b3b49e09fd9ed900482a687
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Summary:In this short note we present unique and new records of a marine fish pigmentation abnormalities, including a case of an albino-melanistic fish, combining leucism and melanism, the first record of a leucistic individual of the iconic and critically endangered great hammerhead shark (Sphyrna mokarran), first record of leucistic Almaco jacks (Seriola rivoliana) and the first melanistic giant manta (Mobula birostris) in the north Atlantic. We speculate that these new records of pigmentary abnormalities may be related to significant population declines and isolation of remote populations.

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