First record of Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) from the southeastern BalticSea (Lithuania)

摘要

The European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758)(Moronidae, Perciformes) is a demersal euryhaline and eurythermic species inhabiting a large variety of habitats includingthe open sea, shelf and coastal waters, lagoons, estuaries andeven lower parts of some rivers (Pickett and Pawson, 1994;Dufour et al., 2009). The natural distribution range of thespecies includes the Eastern Atlantic coasts: from Norway toMorocco, Senegal and the Canary Islands; also the Mediterranean Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea and the Black Sea(Pickett and Pawson, 1994; Corti et al., 1996; Froese andPauly, 2010). The European sea bass is common in the NorthSea and in the western Danish straits, whereas catcheseastward from the straits in the brackish Baltic Sea are veryrare (Pickett and Pawson, 1994; Froese and Pauly, 2010). Thispaper reports on the fi rst record of D. labrax in Lithuaniancoastal waters and presents interesting results of the helminthological analysis of the captured specimen.