ANNEX 1.
Preliminary Checklist of the coastal fishes of the Socotra Archipelago, Yemen. Preliminary species account, listing positively identified species and their archipelagic distribution records (if known), data on recording methods, total record frequencies of this study and record frequencies during the semi-standardised surveys in 1999-2000 (at 74 fish inventory sites), and mean abundances per 1.25 km 3 of 34 transect sites. The species account is arranged in systematic order to the subfamily level and alphabetically at lower levels. Subfamilies are only given, if required to understand the systematic arrangement.
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| Socotra & Sabuniya |
Darsa & Samha |
Abdal-Kuri & KalFarun |
Archipelago (own
in-situ
rec)
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Visualrecords |
Samplerecords |
Photorecords |
Kemp’ s (1998) |
Otherrecords |
Recordeventstotal (
in-situ
)
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Recordevents 1999 - 2000 |
Abundances (%) |
Biogeographic classification |
Remarks |
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…….continued on the next page
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Total no. of species: 682
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Cumulative data:
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549 |
273 |
348 |
561 |
464 |
280 |
368 |
208 |
213 |
6631 |
5136 |
95.706 |
654 |
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Orectolobiformes
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Rhincodontidae:. 1 sp.
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0.000
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Rhincodon typus
Smith, 1828
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| + |
+ |
+ |
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| 0.000 |
WW |
Various observations, e.g. a stranded young of 6 m in length by EPA team. |
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Hemiscylliidae: 1 sp.
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0
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1
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0
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1
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1
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0
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0
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0
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1
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1
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1
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0.000
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Chiloscyllium arabicum
Gubanov, 1980
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| + |
| + |
+ |
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| + |
1 |
1 |
0.000 |
NWI_r eg |
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Stegostomatidae: 1 sp.
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0
|
0.000
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Stegostoma fasciatum
(Hermann, 1783)
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|
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| + |
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| + |
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| 0.000 |
IWP |
As
S. varium
in Kemp (1998).
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Ginglystomatidae: 1 sp.
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0.000
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Nebrius ferrugineus
(Lesson, 1831)
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|
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| + |
| + |
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| 0.000 |
IWP |
Observed by EPA team. |
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Lamniformes
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Lamnidae: 1 sp.
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1
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0.000
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Isurus oxyrinchus
Rafinesque, 1810
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+ |
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| + |
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| 0.000 |
WW |
In Saeed (2000). |
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Carcharhiniformes
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Triakidae: 1 sp.
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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0
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1
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0
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0
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0.000
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Mustelus mosis
Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1899
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| + |
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| 0.000 |
WI |
Observed by EPA team. |
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Carcharhinidae: 13 spp.
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11
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1
|
2
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2
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2
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1
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4
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3
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12
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7
|
5
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0.001
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Carcharhinus albimarginatus
(Rüppell, 1837)
|
+ |
| + |
| + |
| + |
| + |
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| 0.000 |
IP |
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persistent identifier: http://table.plazi.org/id/DF3D918EFB6C6372FF28E046FE93FD07