Table 3 Nine newly recorded species in Philippine waters in DNA barcoding of teleost fishes (Teleostei) in North Luzon, Philippines.
Family | Species | Original distribution range (according to Fishbase) |
|---|---|---|
Apogonidae | Ostorhinchus norfolcensis | Southwest Pacific: Lord Howe and Norfolk Islands. |
Carangidae | Trachinotus ovatus | Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay, British and Scandinavian waters (rare vagrant) to Angola, including the Mediterranean Sea and offshore islands. |
Cyprinidae | Barbonymus gonionotus | Asia: Mekong and Chao Phraya basins, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Java. |
Exocoetidae | Cheilopogon agoo | Northwest Pacific: southern Japan and Taiwan. |
Oxudercidae | Rhinogobius lanyuensis | Asia: Lanyu (Orchid Island), Taiwan. |
Oxudercidae | Stiphodon imperiorientis | Asia: southern Japan, the mainland of South China, and Taiwan. |
Lutjanidae | Lutjanus xanthopinnis | Indo-West Pacific, Indian Ocean (the Andaman Sea, western Thailand and Sri Lanka) to Papua New Guinea and the East Indies; north to Japan; south to Indonesia. |
Sparidae | Acanthopagrus berda | Indian Ocean, South Africa, Mozambique, the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, India, Phuket (Andaman Sea, specimen lost), and Malaysia (Penang Island and Langkawi Island, near Singapore). |
Sparidae | Pagrus major | Northwest Pacific: northeastern part of South China Sea (Philippines excluded) northward to Japan. |
