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Report of the Red-Toothed Triggerfish Odonus niger (Rüppell, 1836) from the North-East Region of the Arabian Gulf

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A new record of the Red-toothed triggerfish Odonus niger from the northeast region of the Arabian Gulf is reported. The three specimens of O. niger were obtained from a fish market in Khorramshahr City, south of Iran, on 10th December 2021. The sampling done during routine sampling in the northern part of the Arabian Gulf represents a significant contribution to the fish diversity in this part of the world as this species has been reported from the Arabian Gulf from Iraq before but has not been reported in the coastal waters of Iran. Reasons for the presence of this species in its new environments were given and discussed.

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Our sincere thanks are to the Marine Science Centre, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq for using the research facility available at the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources. Also, our thanks should be due to Sergey Bogorodsky, Station of Naturalists, Omsk, Russia for the identification of the fish specimen.

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  2. School of Environmental and Animal Sciences, Unitec Institute of Technology, 139 Carrington Road, Mt Albert, Auckland, 1025, New Zealand

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MSFZ: Data curation (equal); investigation (equal); resources (equal); validation (supporting); visualization (supporting); writing – review and editing (supporting). AJAF: Data curation (equal); formal analysis (supporting); investigation (supporting); methodology (supporting); project administration (supporting); resources (equal); supervision (supporting); validation (supporting). LAJ: Conceptualization (lead); formal analysis (equal); investigation (lead); methodology (lead); project administration (lead); resources (equal); supervision (lead); validation (lead); visualization (lead); writing – original draft (lead); writing – review and editing (lead).

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Ziyadi, M.S.F., Al-Faisal, A.J. & Jawad, L.A. Report of the Red-Toothed Triggerfish Odonus niger (Rüppell, 1836) from the North-East Region of the Arabian Gulf. Thalassas 39, 209–213 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41208-022-00500-x

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