{"title":"Occurrence of population of Photopectoralis bindus (Valenciennes, 1835) in Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq","authors":"L. Jawad, M. Al-Mukhtar, Sabir H. Subr","doi":"10.5376/ijms.2016.06.0057","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The first record of a Photopectoralis bindus with a maintainable population from Shatt al-Arab River, Basra, Iraq is reported. The specimens were caught from the middle reaches of Shatt al-Arab River at the City of Basrah, Iraq in November 2015. The capture of adult specimens ( n = 30), marks the establishment of P. bindus in a new freshwater environment different to its original habitat. Changes in abundance of phyto and zooplankton and other environmental factors in Shatt al-Arab recently might be responsible for such an establishment.","PeriodicalId":22529,"journal":{"name":"The international journal of marine science","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2016-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The international journal of marine science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5376/ijms.2016.06.0057","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The first record of a Photopectoralis bindus with a maintainable population from Shatt al-Arab River, Basra, Iraq is reported. The specimens were caught from the middle reaches of Shatt al-Arab River at the City of Basrah, Iraq in November 2015. The capture of adult specimens ( n = 30), marks the establishment of P. bindus in a new freshwater environment different to its original habitat. Changes in abundance of phyto and zooplankton and other environmental factors in Shatt al-Arab recently might be responsible for such an establishment.