NEW AND ADDITIONAL RECORDS OF RARE FISH SPECIES FROM THE ANATOLIAN COASTS OF TURKEY

Year 2019, , 13 - 16, 30.06.2019

Sercan Yapıcı

https://doi.org/10.22531/muglajsci.481750

Cited By: 4

Abstract

In
this study, rare fish species observed from underwater observation and amateur
fishing activities in the Aegean and Mediterranean have been reported. New and
additional records belonging to four fish species were represented: Mola mola and Ranzania laevis were observed from the Aegean and Levant Sea after
decades while juvenile Trachipterus
trachypterus and Lophotus lacepede
were reported firstly in Turkish coasts of Aegean and Levant Sea, respectively.

Keywords

Rare species, Levant Sea, Aegean Sea, Biodiversity

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