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WoRMS name details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Rafinesque, C. S. (1810). Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della sicilia, con varie osservazioni sopra i medisimi. Per le stampe di Sanfilippo: Palermo, Italy. Part 1 involves fishes, pp. [i-iv] 3-69 [70 blank], Part 2 with slightly different title, pp. ia-iva + 71-105 [106 blank]). Pls. 1-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47825964 [details] 
basis of record
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Taxonomystatus source
Minos, G.; Imsiridou, A.; Katselis, G. (2013). Use of morphological differences for the identification of two picarel species Spicara flexuosa and Spicara maena (Pisces: Centracanthidae). Mediterranean Marine Science. 14(3): 26., available online at https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.423 [details] Available for editors  [request]
status source
Bektas, Y.; Aksu, I.; Kalayci, G.; Irmak, E.; Engin, S.; Turan, D. (2018). Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 18(2)., available online at https://doi.org/10.4194/1303-2712-v18_2_09 [details]
From editor or global species database
Remark We will update FishBase before the end of the year (2017) only because it will be difficult to separate what is maena from what is flexuosa … and provisionally until other studies cover a larger geographic area [details]
Synonymy Used to be a synonym of Spicara maena [details]
Taxonomy This paper fixed the taxonomic status of Spicara flexuosa as a valid species, which was long debated, [details]
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