An updated checklist of the marine fishes of Turkey

• Published in: TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY
• Main Authors: Bilecenoglu, Murat, Cihangir, Bulent, Cicek, Erdogan, Kaya, Murat
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Published: Tubitak Scientific & Technical Research Council Turkey 2014
• Subjects: Black Sea; Marine fish diversity; Sea of Marmara; Aegean Sea; Levantine Sea; Randall; Bonaparte; Beluga; Beluga*
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/11454/48822; https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1405-60

WOS: 000344879100010 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 (Facciola, 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 (Facciola, 1887); Apletodon dentatus (Facciola, 1887); Zebrus zebrus (Risso, 1827)). Some fish specimens were collected within the framework of the projects titled "104Y065" of TUBITAK and "Determination of biodiversity of coastal and marine habitats in Fethiye-Gocek special environmental protected area" of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. Special thanks to the crews of R/V Beluga and R/V K. Piri Reis for their support during the surveys. TUBITAKTurkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu (TUBITAK) [104Y065]