Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2246

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930210138359
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5262923
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scientific name	Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL

Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 264); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 314)— BMNH 2001.5 .2.28 (one: 141 mm SL); Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 347); Labadi, January or June? 1936 (A. P. Brown 3) .

Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Norway to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).

On average about 50 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000).