| 1 | Carcharhinus brachyurus (Günther 1870) | Garrick (1982) | Not confirmed in the Adriatic Sea, since C. brachyurus specimen stored in Natural History Museum Wien and mentioned by Garrick (1982) has locality named “Constatinopel bei Trieste”, which could not be assigned to any Adriatic locality. The problem is elaborated in detail in Lipej et al. (2004). | 6 |
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| 2 | Hyporhamphus affinis (Günther, 1866) | Fiorin et al. (2009) | Not confirmed in the Adriatic Sea. No specimens stored according to Fiorin et al. (2009) for criterion 1. The low quality photo showing only the fish’s head from ventrolateral side in Fiorin et al. (2009) prevented the species identification from the photo and excluded criterion 2. Fiorin et al. (2009) didn’t describe morphological details that would be enough for the species identification for criterion 3. The record for the Adriatic Sea in Fiorin et al. (2009) was identified just to the genus level as Hyporhamphus sp., so even the criteria 4 and 5 can not be applied. The record was cited with species identity i.e. as Hyporhamphus affinis only later (Dulčić & Dragičević 2011). | 8, 9 |
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| 3 | Lampanyctus pusillus (Johnson, 1890) | Karlovac (1952) | Cited in the checklists from Tortonese (1970) to Lipej & Dulčić (2010). However, no confirmation of the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be traced back to Karlovac (1952), but from his published data the species cannot be identified and the congeneric species names that were used by Karlovac (1952) i.e. Lampanyctus elongatus (Costa) and Lampanyctus alatus are not in synonymy with Lampanyctus pusillus (Johnson, 1890). | 9 |
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| CALLIONYMIDAE |
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| 2 | Callionymus lyra Linnaeus, 1758 | Trois (1875) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to Trois (1875) who reported the specimen from Trieste stored in MSNV. However, Ninni (1912) considered that the material was not collected in the Adriatic Sea and illustrated that by two similar cases of C. lyra found on Venice fish market which arrived from Guascogna. | 15 |
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| 3 | Synchiropus phaeton (Günther, 1861) | Carus (1893) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to Carus (1893). Carus (1893) mentioned this species for Venezia and cited Ninni, which could refer to one of several Ninni’s papers that included fishes of Venice published in the period 1870 to 1880, and witch is clear mistake or misidentification since S. phaeton is deep water species occuring at the depth not present in the entire north Adriatic Sea. | 14 |
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| 4 | Alosa alosa (Linnaeus, 1758) | Jardas (1996) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to Jardas (1996), without the cited reference or original data or data. Not mentioned in the earlier checklist of Jardas (1985). | 16 |
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| 5 | Exocoetus obtusirostris Günther, 1866 | Šoljan (1948) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist. The confused citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to Šoljan (1948), who doubt on the single Exocoetus specimen recorded in Adriatic and identified as E. evolans L. to be or E. obtusirostris or E. volitans. The two Exocoetus specimens in IOF collection from Adriatic Sea were E. volitans and no identified Adriatic E. obtusirostris was ever reported or stored. | 14 |
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| 6 | Parexocoetus mento (Valenciennes, 1847) | Parin (1986) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to the minimap in Parin (1986) without the explanation or data. | 16 |
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| 7 | Hemiramphus far (Forsskål, 1775) | Parin (1986) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to the minimap in Parin (1986) without the explanation or data. | 16 |
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| 8 | Ctenolabrus rupestris | Grube (1861) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic | 13 |
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| (Linnaeus, 1758) | | Sea exist. Šoljan (1948) cited that Grube (1861) had recorded C. rupestris for the Kvarner area. However, in Grube (1861) |
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| | | no mentioning of this species or any of this species synonyms can be found for the Kvarner area or in the book in general. |
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| 9 | Gymnothorax unicolor (Delaroche, 1809) | Trois (1875) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist. The confused citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back to Trois (1875) who reported the single G. unicolor specimen in the MSNV collected on the Venice fish market and considered to be of foreign origin and not from Adriatic Sea. | 15 |
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| 10 | Pleuronectes platessa Linnaeus, 1758 | Trois (1875) | Platessa passer in Trois (1875) is synonym of Platichthys flesus, same as it is Pleuronectes passe. The wrong assignment of this synonym to Pleuronectes platessa is the reason for the later citation of Pleuronectes platessa in checklists from Šoljan (1948) to Lipej & Dulčić (2010). There is no evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea and should be excluded. | 14 |
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| 11 | Rhinobatos rhinobatos (Linnaeus, 1758) | Tortonese (1956) | Cited in the checklists in the second half of 20th century and in the 21th century, from Tortonese (1956) to Lipej & Dulčić (2010), without original data or cited reference with original data. The Adriatic checklist of the 19th century and the first half of 20th century had no records of R. rhinobatos in the Adriatic Sea (e.g. Perugia 1866; Trois 1875; Ninni 1912; Šoljan 1948). Therefore, no evidence exists for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea. | 16 |
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| 12 | Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 | Trois (1875) | No evidence for the presence of this species in the Adriatic Sea exist, the citing for the Adriatic Sea could be trace back from Ninni (1912) to the oldest Adriatic mentioning of species in Trois (1875). However, Trois (1875) didn’t reported any specimen stored or any data on collecting and just noted “rarissimo” i.e. extremely rare. Since the oldest citation that was later followed by others is without data the species should be excluded from the Adriatic checklist. | 16 |
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