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intraspecific and interspecific divergence (Puillandre et al., 2012).

FIGURE 2. NJ tree constructed on K2P model including reference data from GenBank with the present data from: (A) 627-bp
COI sequences and (B) 524-bp 16S sequences. Captures from the Mediterranean area (MED), the Atlantic area (ATL), and the
Indo-Pacific area (INDO-PAC). (The names of species are reported as uploaded from the GenBank except for A.N.
KC136382).

Results

Morphology and stomach content analysis. The specimen presents the following main meristic and
morphological characters: elongate and oval shaped body, scale rows horizontally along body and alternately
golden and bluish, dorsal and anal fin very low, dorsal fin with XI spines and 13 soft rays, anal fin with III spines
and 11 soft rays, pectoral fin with 17–20 rays, caudal fin moderately emarginated, teeth incisor-shaped, scales on
interorbital region, external side of first gill arch with large number of gill rakers on lower limb (22) and upper limb
(8), lateral line with 55 pored scales, longitudinal row with 60 scale rows. All examined characteristics are reported
in Table 3.

The stomach contents (84 g) consisted mainly of seaweeds (78 g): mostly Ulva spp. (68 g), with the remainder
composed of brown algae such as Dictyopteris polypodioides (A.P. De Candolle) J.V. Lamouroux, Dictyota
dichotoma (Hudson) J.V. Lamouroux, Halopteris spp. and Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy. Terrestrial
vegetables (tomatoes, lettuce) (2 g) and the remains of small fishes (4 g) used as bait or found intermixed with
algae were also present.

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