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First record of saddleback syndrome in wild parrotfish Sparisoma cretense (L., 1758) (Perciformes, Scaridae)

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JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 72, Issue 3, Pages 737-741

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2007.01714.x

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dorsal fin; parrotfish; saddleback; skeletal deformities

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The saddleback syndrome is recorded for the first time in a wild fish population of the Mediterranean Sea. The deformed specimen belongs to Sparisoma cretense and presents the typical saddleback phenotype of missing spines in the dorsal fin. (c) 2008 The Author Journal compilation (c) 2008 The Fisheries Society of the British Isles.

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