Vol. 75 (2) 2023

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Molecular Evidence of the Presence of the Clubfoot Sillago Sillaginopodys chondropus Bleeker, 1849 (Perciformes: Sillaginidae) from the Iranian Coast, with the First Length-Weight Data from the Oman Sea

Hashem Khandan Barani1, Mohammad Sadegh Alavi-Yeganeh1*, Alireza Riyahi Bakhtiari2 & Mehdi Ghanbarifardi3

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1Department of Marine Biology, Tarbiat Modares University, Nur, Iran
*2Department of Environmental Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Nur, Iran; E-mail: malavi@modares.ac.ir
3Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.71424/azb75.2.002654

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Abstract
The first molecular evidence of the occurrence of Sillaginopodys chondropus from the Northern Coast of the Oman Sea is presented. Twenty-four specimens were collected with the beach seine during sampling in February 2021. A 573 bp haplotype of cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene (COI) revealed 0.18–0.25 K2P distance with other sillaginid species, while it was identical with conspecific haplotypes. Morphometric and meristic characters matched the previous description of S. chondropus. The length-weight relationship was W = 0.0025*TL3.363, suggesting positive allometric growth. All calculated length-length relationships were highly correlated (r2≥0.85).

Key words
Sillaginidae, COI, DNA barcoding

How to Cite
Barani H.K., Alavi-Yeganeh M.S., Bakhtiari A.R. & Ghanbarifardi M. 2023. Molecular Evidence of the Presence of the Clubfoot Sillago Sillaginopodys chondropus Bleeker, 1849 (Perciformes: Sillaginidae) from the Iranian Coast, with the First Length-Weight Data from the Oman Sea. Acta zoologica bulgarica 75 (2) 193-198.

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