New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin
The present study confirms the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea, by means of morphological traits and molecular markers providing the first record of this species in the Alboran Sea. Cannas et al. (2010) reported D. nidarosiensis for the f...
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ftektojs:oai:ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr:article/13651 2023-05-15T16:01:00+02:00 New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin RAMÍREZ-AMARO, S. ORDINES, F. ÁNGEL PUERTO, M. GARCÍA, C. RAMON, C. TERRASA, B. MASSUTÍ, E. European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) Western Mediterranean Sea from 2013 to 2016 tissues samples and complete specimens 2017-07-17 application/pdf https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/13651 https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1950 eng eng Hellenic Centre for Marine Research https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/13651/12900 https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/13651 doi:10.12681/mms.1950 Copyright (c) 2017 Mediterranean Marine Science Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol 18, No 2 (2017); 251-259 1791-6763 1108-393X Systematic Taxonomic Genetic Alboran Sea deep-sea skate Dipturus nidarosiensis DNA barcoding misidentification western Mediterranean info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Genetic and Morphological 2017 ftektojs https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.1950 2022-01-09T20:24:54Z The present study confirms the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea, by means of morphological traits and molecular markers providing the first record of this species in the Alboran Sea. Cannas et al. (2010) reported D. nidarosiensis for the first time in the Mediterranean from specimens captured in the central western basin, but Ebert & Stehmann (2013) and Stehmann et al. (2015) considered these records "likely refer to the smaller morphotype, Dipturus sp.", a species not yet described. Eight specimens of the Dipturus genus (Rajiformes: Rajidae) were caught off the Alboran Island (western Mediterranean) in 2012, 2013 and 2016, between 620 and 819 m depth. These specimens showed morphometric diagnostic features corresponding to those of Norwegian skates from the Northeast Atlantic and the central western Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, the Alboran individuals were genetically compared to Northeast Atlantic specimens available in GenBank by means of two mitochondrial DNA fragments: cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and cytochrome b (Cytb). Analyses showed that the Northeast Atlantic Norwegian skate specimens and the Alboran Sea ones were genetically similar and shared haplotypes, corroborating the identification of the Alboran individuals as Dipturus nidarosiensis. However, they were different from other Dipturus species distributed throughout the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Our results confirm the occurrence of this deep-sea large skate species in the Mediterranean, although the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species does not consider it possible (Stehmann et al., 2015). Article in Journal/Newspaper Dipturus nidarosiensis Northeast Atlantic Norwegian skate EKT ePublishing (National Documentation Centre, Greece) Western Basin Mediterranean Marine Science 18 2 251 |
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Systematic Taxonomic Genetic Alboran Sea deep-sea skate Dipturus nidarosiensis DNA barcoding misidentification western Mediterranean RAMÍREZ-AMARO, S. ORDINES, F. ÁNGEL PUERTO, M. GARCÍA, C. RAMON, C. TERRASA, B. MASSUTÍ, E. New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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The present study confirms the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea, by means of morphological traits and molecular markers providing the first record of this species in the Alboran Sea. Cannas et al. (2010) reported D. nidarosiensis for the first time in the Mediterranean from specimens captured in the central western basin, but Ebert & Stehmann (2013) and Stehmann et al. (2015) considered these records "likely refer to the smaller morphotype, Dipturus sp.", a species not yet described. Eight specimens of the Dipturus genus (Rajiformes: Rajidae) were caught off the Alboran Island (western Mediterranean) in 2012, 2013 and 2016, between 620 and 819 m depth. These specimens showed morphometric diagnostic features corresponding to those of Norwegian skates from the Northeast Atlantic and the central western Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, the Alboran individuals were genetically compared to Northeast Atlantic specimens available in GenBank by means of two mitochondrial DNA fragments: cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) and cytochrome b (Cytb). Analyses showed that the Northeast Atlantic Norwegian skate specimens and the Alboran Sea ones were genetically similar and shared haplotypes, corroborating the identification of the Alboran individuals as Dipturus nidarosiensis. However, they were different from other Dipturus species distributed throughout the Northeast Atlantic and the Mediterranean Sea. Our results confirm the occurrence of this deep-sea large skate species in the Mediterranean, although the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species does not consider it possible (Stehmann et al., 2015). |
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New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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New morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the Norwegian skate Dipturus nidarosiensis (Storm, 1881) in the Mediterranean Sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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new morphological and molecular evidence confirm the presence of the norwegian skate dipturus nidarosiensis (storm, 1881) in the mediterranean sea and extend its distribution to the western basin |
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Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol 18, No 2 (2017); 251-259 1791-6763 1108-393X |
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