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The Arabian scad Trachurus indicus , a new Indo‐Pacific species in the Mediterranean Sea
Author(s) -
Dalyan C.,
Eryilmaz L.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2009.02195.x
Subject(s) - indo pacific , biology , mediterranean sea , fishery , mediterranean climate , bay , oceanography , ecology , geology
The Arabian scad Trachurus indicus is recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea (Iskenderun Bay, Turkey). The presence of this Indo‐Pacific fish in the Mediterranean Sea is probably because of migration from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal.