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Authors
Bañón, Rafael https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6038-9335
de Carlos, Alejandro
Arronte, Juan Carlos
Comesaña, Ángel Sebastián
Barreiro Vázquez, José Daniel
García-Fernández, Cristina
Baldó, Francisco
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
European Maritime and Fisheries Fund
Instituto Nacional de Pesca y Acuacultura
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Article History
Received: 20 February 2024
Revised: 22 February 2025
Accepted: 24 February 2025
First Online: 14 March 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: No animal testing was performed during this study.
: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the Acknowledgements. The study is compliant with CBD and Nagoya protocols.
: The sequences employed in the current study are available in the BOLD systems (, accessed on 21 December 2023) and GenBank (, accessed on 21 December 2023) repositories. All specimens used in this study for taxonomical purposes are deposited in the fish collection of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Museo de Historia Natural Luis Iglesias, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain (see methods). All other data are included in this article.
: RB conceived the study. ADC and ASC conducted molecular analyses. FB and JCA compiled the specimens. JDBV made the X-ray photographs. RB and CGF conducted morphological analysis. RB, FB, CGF and ADC wrote the manuscript and all authors critically reviewed and approved the manuscript.
