Abstract
Two mature individuals of Trypauchen vagina were caught by trawl fishing at 30 m depth in the Mersin coastal areas in September 2018. Meristic and morphometric measurements of the individuals were done and compared with its measurements reported in other studies. In previous studies; one record from Mersin Bay and in totally three records of T. vagina in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea were reported. In this study, the second record of T. vagina was reported from Mersin Bay.
Highlights
Trypauchen vagina (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) is an amphidromous fish belonging to the family Gobidae and is tropical and Indo-Pacific origin, living in muddy bottoms from sea to brackish waters (Rainboth, 1996; Riede, 2004)
The aim of this study is to report the presence of adults’ specimen T. vagina from the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea and to determine current status of this species in the Levantine basin
Since there is no record of the species in the Red Sea, it has been reported by some researchers that sea transport has a role in its presence in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea
Summary
Trypauchen vagina (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) is an amphidromous fish belonging to the family Gobidae and is tropical and Indo-Pacific origin, living in muddy bottoms from sea to brackish waters (Rainboth, 1996; Riede, 2004). Records of the species from the Pacific are as follows: China (Herre, 1927), various regions of Indonesia (Bleeker, 1860; Kottelat et al, 1993), Philippines (Herre, 1953), Caledonia (Kulbicki et al, 1993), Taiwan (Chen and Fang, 1999), the Mekong Delta (Rainboth, 1996; Dinh, 2018a) and the Hau River (Dinh, 2018b). All individuals observed in the Mediterranean Sea were found in the northeastern part of sea. This species has only distribution in the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea
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