Perciformes

ORDER PERCIFORMES

Family Moronidae

* Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) — European seabass

Family Polyprionidae

Polyprion americanus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — Wreckfish Family Serranidae

* Anthias anthias (Linnaeus, 1758) — Swallowtail seaperch Epinephelus marginatus (Lowe, 1834) — Dusky grouper Serranus scriba (Linnaeus, 1758) — Painted comber

Reported by De Buen (1935b); there are no posterior records of this species. * Serranus cabrilla (Linnaeus, 1758) — Comber

Family Callanthiidae

* Callanthias ruber (Rafinesque, 1810) — Parrot seaperch

Family Epigonidae

Epigonus telescopus (Risso, 1810) — Bulls-eye

Family Pomatomidae

Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1766) — Bluefish

Not mentioned for Galician waters by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded by Lozano y Rey (1952), based on a picture of one specimen landed in the port of Vigo, erroneously identified by De Buen (1935b). There are reports of sporadic catches by game fishers from 1969 to approximately 1994. The last reported specimen of 76 cm TL was caught on 3 June 2007 in Portosin (Bañón et al., 2008b).

Family Echeneidae

Remora brachyptera (Lowe, 1839) — Spearfish remora

Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Lachner in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al., (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Solórzano et al. (1988), as specimens attached to swordfish individuals caught by the longlinners. We consider this a doubtful record, probably out of the study area.

*Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common remora

Two specimens of 10 and 11 cm TL caught during the survey “Demersales 00” at 267 m depth.

Family Carangidae

* Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758) —Atlantic horse mackerel

* Trachurus picturatus (Bowdich, 1825) — Blue jack mackerel

Trachurus mediterraneus (Steindachner, 1868) — Mediterranean horse mackerel

Pseudocaranx dentex (Bloch & Schneider, 1801) — White trevally Not mentioned for Galician waters by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986). Reported by Fernández and Bañon (1997).

Caranx crysos (Mitchill, 1815) — Blue runner

Not mentioned for Galician waters by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón and Casas (1997). A new unreported specimen of 52 cm TL was caught on 30th November 2009 in the Ensenada de Corcubión, at 33 m depth (Figure 10).

* Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus, 1758) —Pilotfish

* Seriola rivoliana Valenciennes, 1833 —Almaco jack

* Seriola fasciata (Bloch, 1793) — Lesser amberjack

Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Smith-Vaniz in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón and Mucientes (2009), one specimen of 32 cm TL caught on 19th September 2008 in the Ría de Arousa (South Galicia) at 12 m depth.

Campogramma glaycos (Lacepède, 1801) — Vadigo

Lichia amia (Linnaeus, 1758) — Leerfish

Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Derbio

Family Coryphaenidae

Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758 — Common dolphinfish Coryphaena equiselis Linnaeus, 1758 — Pompano dolphinfish

Family Bramidae

Pterycombus brama Fries, 1837 — Atlantic fanfish * Taractes asper Lowe, 1843 — Rough pomfret Taractichthys longipinnis (Lowe, 1843) — Bigscale pomfret * Brama brama (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Atlantic pomfret

Family Sparidae

Dentex gibbosus (Rafinesque, 1810) — Pink dentex

Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. Dentex macrophthalmus (Bloch, 1791) — Large-eye dentex

Dentex dentex (Linnaeus, 1758) —Common dentex

Pagrus caeruleostictus (Valenciennes, 1830) — Bluespotted seabream Reported by Fernández et al. (1978) as Sparus caurelosticus.

* Pagrus pagrus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common seabream

Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Annular seabream

* Diplodus cervinus (Lowe, 1838) — Zebra seabream

* Diplodus sargus (Linnaeus, 1758) — White seabream

* Diplodus vulgaris (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817) — Common two-banded seabream

Diplodus puntazzo (Cetti, 1777) — Sharpsnout seabream

* Pagellus acarne (Risso, 1827) — Axillary seabream

* Pagellus bogaraveo (Brünnich, 1768) — Blackspot seabream

* Pagellus erythrinus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Common pandora

* Sparus aurata Linnaeus, 1758 — Gilthead seabream

* Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bogue

Oblada melanura (Linnaeus, 1758) — Saddled seabream

* Sarpa salpa (Linnaeus, 1758) — Salema

* Spondyliosoma cantharus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Black seabream

* Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Striped seabream

Family Centracanthidae

Spicara maena (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blotched picarel Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species.

Family Sciaenidae

Umbrina cirrosa (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shi drum

Sciaena umbra Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown meagre

Umbrina canariensis Valenciennes, 1843 — Canary drum One specimen of 369 mm TL caught on 11 March 2009 in the Ría de Viveiro.

Argyrosomus regius (Asso, 1801) — Meagre

Family Mullidae

* Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758 — Striped red mullet Mullus barbatus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758 — Red mullet

Family Kyphosidae

Kyphosus sectator (Linnaeus, 1758) — Bermuda sea chub

Not mentioned for the Atlantic European waters neither by Tortonese in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Bañón (2004) (Figure 11) but previously observed by scuba divers, at least since 2001. Since 2005 the capture of three specimens has been recorded.

Family Cepolidae

* Cepola macrophthalma (Linnaeus, 1758) — Red bandfish

Family Mugilidae

* Chelon labrosus (Risso, 1827) — Thicklip grey mullet Mugil cephalus Linnaeus, 1758 — Flathead mullet * Liza aurata (Risso, 1810) — Golden grey mullet Liza ramada (Risso, 1810) — Thinlip mullet

Family Labridae

* Coris julis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Mediterranean rainbow wrasse * Acantholabrus palloni (Risso, 1810) — Scale-rayed wrasse * Centrolabrus exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Rock cook

* Labrus bergylta Ascanius, 1767 — Ballan wrasse

* Labrus mixtus Linnaeus, 1758 — Cuckoo wrasse

Labrus merula Linnaeus, 1758 — Brown wrasse

Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. Labrus viridis Linnaeus, 1758 — Green wrasse

Reported by López-Seoane (1866); there are no posterior records of this species. * Ctenolabrus rupestris (Linnaeus, 1758) — Goldsinny

* Symphodus bailloni (Valenciennes, 1839) — Baillon’s wrasse * Symphodus cinereus (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Grey wrasse Symphodus tinca (Linnaeus, 1758) — East Atlantic peacock wrasse * Symphodus melops (Linnaeus, 1758) — Corkwing

Symphodus ocellatus (Forsskål, 1775) — No common name

Family Chiasmodontidae

Chiasmodon niger Johnson, 1864 — Black swallower

Family Ammodytidae

* Gymnammodytes semisquamatus (Jourdain, 1879) — Smooth sandeel

* Ammodytes tobianus Linnaeus, 1758 — Sandeel

* Hyperoplus lanceolatus (Le Sauvage, 1824) — Great sandeel

Hyperoplus immaculatus (Corbin, 1950) — Immaculate sandeel Not mentioned for Galician waters neither by Reay in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro et al. (2003). Recorded from Galicia by Franco and Sola (1985).

Family Trachinidae

* Trachinus draco Linnaeus, 1758 — Greater weever fish * Echiichthys vipera (Cuvier, 1829) — Lesser weever fish Trachinus araneus Cuvier, 1829 — Spotted weever

Identified by a photo of one specimen captured by gill-net in May 2008 in the Ría de Muros (Figure 12).

Family Uranoscopidae

Uranoscopus scaber Linnaeus, 1758 — Atlantic stargazer

Family Tripterygiidae

* Tripterygion delaisi Cadenat & Blache, 1971 — Black-faced blenny

Family Blenniidae

* Parablennius ruber (Valenciennes, 1836) — Portuguese blenny * Parablennius gattorugine (Brünnich, 1768) — Tompot blenny * Parablennius sanguinolentus (Pallas, 1811) — Rusty blenny * Parablennius pilicornis (Cuvier, 1829) — Ringneck blenny * Salaria pavo (Risso, 1810) — Peacock blenny

* Coryphoblennius galerita (Linnaeus, 1758) — Montagu's blenny * Blennius ocellaris Linnaeus, 1758 — Butterfly blenny * Lipophrys pholis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Shanny

*Paralipophrys trigloides (Valenciennes, 1836) — No common name

Family Callionymidae

* Callionymus lyra Linnaeus, 1758 — Common dragonet * Callionymus maculatus Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810 — Spotted dragonet * Callionymus reticulatus Valenciennes, 1837 — Reticulate dragonet

Family Gobiidae

Crystallogobius linearis (Düben, 1845) — Crystal goby

* Gobius niger Linnaeus, 1758 — Black goby

* Gobius paganellus Linnaeus, 1758 — Rock Goby

* Gobius cobitis Pallas, 1814 — Giant goby

Gobius cruentatus Gmelin 1789 — Red-mouthed goby

* Gobius xanthocephalus Heymer and Zander, 1992 — No common name Recorded by De Buen (1918, 1935) and Iglesias (1981) as G. auratus. Recent studies have confirmed that these records are in fact G. xanthocephalus (Figure 13) (Villegas-Ríos and Bañon, in press).

Gobius gasteveni Miller, 1974 — Steven's goby

Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). However it is recorded from Galicia by Alberto et al. (1999). Although it is seldom caught by fishery gears, it is usually observed by scuba divers in the Rías Baixas of Galicia where it is a common species (Figure 14).

Gobiusculus flavenscens (Fabricius, 1779) — Two-spotted goby

* Aphia minuta (Risso, 1810) — Transparent goby

Lesueurigobius suerii (Risso, 1810) — Lesueur's goby

* Lesueurigobius friesii (Malm, 1874) — Fries's goby

* Deltentosteus quadrimaculatus (Valenciennes, 1837) — Four-spotted goby

* Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) — Sand goby

* Pomatoschistus microps (Kroyer, 1838) — Common goby

Pomatoschistus norvegicus (Collett, 1902) — Norwegian goby

Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). Reported by De Buen (1935b) as P. f a g e i. A total of 11 specimens were captured again between 140–180 m depth in “Demersales 86” and “Demersales 01” surveys.

* Pomatoschistus pictus (Malm, 1865) — Painted goby

Pomatoschistus lozanoi (De Buen, 1923) — Lozano's goby

Zosterisessor ophiocephalus (Pallas, 1814) — Grass goby

Not recorded from Galicia neither by Miller in Whitehead et al. (1986) nor by Quéro (2003). Reported by De Buen (1935b); we consider this as a doubtful record.

Thorogobius ephippiatus (Lowe, 1839) — Leopard-spotted goby

Unrecorded from Galicia but many underwater images confirm their presence (Figure 15).

Family Luvaridae

Luvarus imperialis Rafinesque, 1810 — Luvar

Family Scombrolabracidae

Scombrolabrax heterolepis Roule, 1921 — Longfin escolar

Family Sphyraenidae

Sphyraena sphyraena (Linnaeus, 1758) — European barracuda

Family Gempylidae

Nesiarchus nasutus Johnson, 1862 — Black gemfish Ruvettus pretiosus Cocco, 1833 — Oilfish

Family Trichiuridae

Trichiurus lepturus Linnaeus, 1758 — Largehead hairtail * Lepidopus caudatus (Euphrasen, 1788) — Scabbard fish Aphanopus carbo Lowe, 1839 — Black scabbardfish Benthodesmus simonyi (Steindachner, 1891) — Simony's frostfish

Family Xiphiidae

Xiphias gladius Linnaeus, 1758 — Swordfish

Family Istiophoridae

Tetrapturus albidus Poey, 1860 — Atlantic white marlin

Family Scombridae

Scomber colias Gmelin, 1789 — Chub mackerel * Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 — Atlantic mackerel Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) — Blue-fin tunny Thunnus alalunga (Bonnaterre, 1788) — Albacore Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeus, 1758) — Skipjack tuna Auxis rochei (Risso, 1810) — Frigate mackerel Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793) — Bonito

Familly Centrolophidae

* Centrolophus niger (Gmelin, 1789) — Blackfish

Family Nomeidae

Cubiceps gracilis (Lowe, 1843) — Driftfish

Family Stromateidae

Stromateus fiatola Linnaeus, 1758 — Blue butterfish