-

Öz

357 mm total boyuyla bir melanur (Oblada melanura) bireyi 30 Nisan 2014 tarihinde Sığacık Körfezi Kokar Koyu’nda (Güney Ege Denizi) uzatma ağlarıyla yakalanmıştır. Bu çalışma, O. melanura’nın sadece Akdeniz için ikinci değil, aynı zamanda Türkiye denizleri için ilk kez en büyük boyunu rapor etmektedir

Anahtar Kelimeler

• -

Maximum size of saddled bream, Oblada melanura (Linnaeus, 1758) (Osteichthyes: Sparidae), in the southern Aegean Sea, Turkey

Abstract

Abstract A specimen of the saddled bream, Oblada melanura, with 357 mm TL, was caught on 30 April 2014 by gillnet fishery in Kokar Cove, Sığacık Bay, the southern Aegean Sea. The present study reports not only the second maximum length record of O. melanura for the Mediterranean, but also the maximum record for the Turkish seas.

Keywords

• Key words: Saddled bream, Oblada melanura, Maximum length, Sığacık Bay, Aegean Sea

References

1. Bauchot, M.-L. Hureau, J.-C. (1986) Sparidae. In: Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean, Vol.II (Eds., P. J. P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureu, J. Nielsen, E. Tortonose), UNESCO, Paris, pp. 883–913.
2. Crec’hriou, R., Neveu, R., Lenfant, P. (2012) Length-weight relationship of main commercial fishes from the French Catalan coast. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 28: 861-862.
3. Froese, R., Pauly, D. (2014) FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org version (02/2014).(Accessed date: 05 May 2014).
4. Golani, D., Öztürk, B., Başusta, N. (2006) Fishes of the Eastern Mediterranean. Turkish Marine Research Foundation, Istanbul, 259 pp.
5. Gonçalves, J.M.S., Bentes, L., Lino, P.G., Ribeiro, J., Canario, A.V.M., Erzini, K. (1997) Weight-length relationships for selected fish species of the small- scale demersal fisheries of the south and southwest coast of Portugal. Fisheries Research 30: 253-256.
6. Mahmoud, H.H. (2010) Age, growth and mortality of saddled bream, Oblada melanura (Linnaeus, 1758) in Abu Qir Bay, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Research 36: 1-7.
7. Pallaora, A., Cetinic, P., Dulcic, J., Jardas, I., Kraljevic, M. (1998) Biological parameters of the saddled bream Oblada melanura in the eastern Adriatic. Fisheries Research 38: 199-205.
8. Stergiou, K.I., Moutopoulos, D.K. (2001) A review of length-weight relationships of fishes from Greek marine waters. Naga, the ICLARM Quarterly 24: 23-39.