An updated checklist of the marine fishes of Turkey

Authors

MURAT BİLECENOĞLU
MURAT KAYA
BÜLENT CİHANGİR
ERDOĞAN ÇİÇEK

DOI

10.3906/zoo-1405-60

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)).

Keywords

Marine fish diversity, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara, Aegean Sea, Levantine Sea

First Page

901

Last Page

929

Recommended Citation

BİLECENOĞLU, MURAT; KAYA, MURAT; CİHANGİR, BÜLENT; and ÇİÇEK, ERDOĞAN (2014) "An updated checklist of the marine fishes of Turkey," Turkish Journal of Zoology: Vol. 38: No. 6, Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1405-60
Available at: https://journals.tubitak.gov.tr/zoology/vol38/iss6/10