The bluespotted cornetfish F. commersonii is distributed in tropical and subtropical seas, common among reefs, shallow sandy bottoms, and on sea grass beds (Fischer and Bianchi 1984, Golani et al. 2002). It lives either solitarily or in small groups preying chiefly on small fishes and small crustaceans such as shrimps, mysids, euphasiids, crabs, and other benthic crustaceans (Fischer and Bianchi 1984 , Nakamura et al. 2003 , Karachle et al. 2004 , Froese and Pauly 2007). It is a Lessepsian

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... nt, recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Israel by Golani (2000) . Its geographical distribution has extended rapidly in the basin, with records from the Gulf of Gokova,