The Mollusk Fauna of Lake Sapanca (Turkey: Marmara) and Some Physico-Chemical Parameters of Their Abundance

Authors

SERAP KOŞAL ŞAHİN
M. ZEKİ YILDIRIM

DOI

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Abstract

To identify the mollusk fauna of Lake Sapanca (Turkey), samples were collected monthly from 5 stations between September 2000 and August 2001. The mollusk fauna of the lake consists of a total of 16 species, 12 of which belong to Gastropoda: Theodoxus fluviatilis, Viviparus acerosus costae, Esperiana accicularis situssineri, Esperiana esperi, Bithynia tentaculata, Lithoglyphus naticoides, Borysthenia naticina, Galba truncatula, Radix labiata, Lymnaee stagnalis, Planorbis planorbis, and Oxyloma elegans, and 4 to Bivalvia: Unio pictorum, Dreissena polymorpha, Anadonta cygnea, and Sphaerium lacustre. Furthermore, temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, turbidity, and depth of each sample were measured at the sampling sites.

Keywords

Mollusk, fauna, lake, Sapanca

First Page

47

Last Page

52

Recommended Citation

ŞAHİN, SERAP KOŞAL and YILDIRIM, M. ZEKİ (2007) "The Mollusk Fauna of Lake Sapanca (Turkey: Marmara) and Some Physico-Chemical Parameters of Their Abundance," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 31: No. 1, Article 7. Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol31/iss1/7