Open AccessNew data on the occurrence of two alien fishes, Pisodonophis semicinctus and Pomadasys stridens, from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Author(s) -
Murat Bilecenoğlu,
Murat Kaya,
Ahmet Eryigit
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
mediterranean marine science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1791-6763
pISSN - 1108-393X
DOI - 10.12681/mms.117
Subject(s) - alien , mediterranean sea , range (aeronautics) , mediterranean climate , fishery , turkish , geography , oceanography , biology , geology , archaeology , population , linguistics , philosophy , materials science , demography , sociology , composite material , census
The tropical Atlantic originated saddled snake eel, Pisodonophis semicinctus (Richardson, 1848) and the Indian Ocean originated striped piggy, Pomadasys stridens (Forsskål, 1775), are being recorded for the first time from Turkish coasts. First species is also a new addition to the eastern Mediterranean ichthyofauna, while the latter species has expanded its range to the northeastern Levant Sea.