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The first record of the Sargocentron genus from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean) - who will unravel the current conundrum?
The squirrelfish genus, Sargocentron, is reported for the first time from Maltese coastal waters within the Central Mediterranean. The record
is based on two individuals caught at two different coastal locations in the Maltese Islands within the space of a few days of each other,
through the same fishing technique (trammel nets). In view of the impossibility to collect meristic, morphometric and molecular data from
the recorded individuals, and due to the close similarity between a number of Sargocentron congeners, the exact taxonomic identity of the
captured individuals could not be conclusively confirmed, although the livery on the two caught individuals resulted to be consistent with
that of S. rubrum and S. hastatum.peer-reviewe