First Indo-Pacific fish species from the Black Sea coast of Turkey: Shrimp scad Alepes djedaba (Forsskål, 1775) (Carangidae)

Cemal Turan,Akif Özeren,Mevlüt Gürlek,Servet Ahmet Doğdu

doi:10.28978/nesciences.358911

Abstract

One specimen of shrimp scad Alepes djedaba (Forsskål, 1775) was caught by using fish net at a depth of 30 m on 11 October 2017 from Sinop Bay, the West Black Sea. With the present study, A. djedaba is first lessepsian fish species in the Black Sea coast of Turkey. The migration of IndoPacific species to the Black Sea indicate that climate change is getting an important issue both for marine biodiversity and fisheries in the Black Sea.

Highlights

Nowadays, many alien fish species, which entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, have established dense populations in the north-eastern coastal waters of Turkey (Turan et al, 2016).The family of Carangidae comprises of 140 species in 32 genera of worldwide (Nelson, 2006)
We reported the Black Sea extension of Alepes djedaba from Sinop coast as a first lessepsian fish species from the Black Sea coast of Turkey
The number of lessepsian fish migrants in the Mediterranean Sea has rapidly increased in recent years (Gurlek et al, 2016; Doğdu et al, 2016)

Summary

Introduction

Many alien fish species, which entered the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal, have established dense populations in the north-eastern coastal waters of Turkey (Turan et al, 2016). A. djedaba in the Mediterranean Sea was first recorded as Caranx calla along the Palestinian coast in 1927 by Steinitz (1927) (Figure 1) It has afterwards been recorded in Levantine coast of Turkey (Akyüz, 1957), the Aegean Sea coast of Greece (Bini, 1960), the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey (Geldiay, 1969), South Cyrus coast in the Levantine (Demetropoulos & Neocleus, 1969), Syrian coast in the Levantine (Bauchot, 1987), Ionian Sea coast of Greece (Fischer et al, 1987), Lebonan coast in the Levantine (Lakkis & Zeidane, 1989), Malta coast (Lanfranco, 1993), Egypt coasts (El Sayed, 1994), Libya coast (Shakman & Kinzelbach, 2007), the Sea of Marmara by Artüz and Kubanç (2014) (Figure 1). A. djedaba was first reported from the north-eastern Mediterranean part of Turkey by Akyüz (1957), and northward extension was reported in the the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey (Geldiay, 1969) and recently from the Sea of Marmara (Artüz and Kubanç, 2014) in Turkish marine waters.

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