An Updated Checklist of the Marine Fishes of Turkey
Turkish Journal of Zoology Turk J Zool (2014) 38: http://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/ © TÜBİTAK Research Article doi:10.3906/zoo-1405-60 An updated checklist of the marine fishes of Turkey 1, 2 3 4 Murat BİLECENOĞLU *, Murat KAYA , Bülent CİHANGİR , Erdoğan ÇİÇEK 1 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Adnan Menderes University, Aydın, Turkey 2 Department of Hydrobiology, Faculty of Fisheries, Ege University, İzmir, Turkey 3 Institute of Marine Sciences and Technology, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey 4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Nevşehir, Turkey Received: 27.05.2014 Accepted: 13.08.2014 Published Online: 00.00.2013 Printed: 00.00.2013 Abstract: The current status of marine fishes distributed along the Turkish coasts is reviewed and an updated checklist including 512 species is presented. In this study, 5 species are recorded for the first time from Turkey (Lepidion lepidion (Risso, 1810); Bathophilus nigerrimus Giglioli, 1882; Gonostoma denudatum Rafinesque, 1810; Solea aegyptiaca Chabanaud, 1927; and Gobius roulei de Buen, 1928), while 7 species are new to the Turkish Aegean Sea coast (Notacanthus bonaparte Risso, 1840; Nettastoma melanurum Rafinesque, 1810; Apletodon dentatus (Facciolà, 1887); Apletodon incognitus Hofrichter & Patzner, 1997; Callionymus filamentosus Valenciennes, 1837; Cynoglossus sinusarabici (Chabanaud, 1931); Torquigener flavimaculosus Hardy & Randall, 1983) and 3 species are newly reported from the Levantine coast (Dysomma brevirostre (Facciolà, 1887); Apletodon dentatus (Facciolà, 1887); Zebrus zebrus (Risso, 1827)). Key words: Marine fish diversity, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Levantine Sea 1. Introduction seems to be more related to the scarcity of taxonomical Fishes are the most primitive members of the subphylum studies, rather than the oligotrophic nature of the eastern Craniata, constituting more than half of the living Mediterranean basin.
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