Abstract
One specimen of Trachinotus ovatus (SL: 98 mm, TL: 128mm, TW: 18.43 g) was captured by a fishing line from Kepez, Canakkale Strait (Turkey) on 5 October 2019. This record is one of the first of the species in Canakkale Strait. Besides this study aims to confirm its occurrence of T. ovatus with some morphological properties from Canakkale Strait, Some morphometric and meristic features of specimen are given.
Highlights
Fishes of the family Carangidae, with 146 recognized species are mainly marine fishes of tropical and subtropical waters of Western Atlantic and Eastern Atlantic (Froese, Rainer & Pauly, 2019)
The golden pompano, Trachinotus ovatus which is a termophilic species belongs to the family of Carangidae which is economically important throughout the Mediterranean Sea (Smith-Vaniz & Berry, 1981) and distributes from Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay, British and Scandinavian waters to Angola, including the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea of Turkey and offshore islands. to Fishbase (Smith-Vaniz, 1986), primarily T. ovatus which is a pelagic-neritic species found mainly at depths ranging from 50 to 200 m according to Fishbase (Reiner, 1996)
This study aims to confirm its occurrence of T. ovatus with some morphological properties from Çanakkale Strait, the Sea of Marmara and represents a significant range extension to northwards in the Turkish Seas
Summary
Fishes of the family Carangidae, with 146 recognized species are mainly marine fishes of tropical and subtropical waters of Western Atlantic and Eastern Atlantic (Froese, Rainer & Pauly, 2019). Ma et al (2014) studied the effect of salinity on the rearing performance of juvenile golden pompano T. ovatus in South China Sea while Assem et al (2005) reported the reproduction of female T.ovatus (Carangidae) This species has been reported so far from Mediterranean Sea (Chervinski & Zorn, 1977), Norway (Samuedsen, 1983), (Galicia (NW Spain) (Banon et al 2010), Greek waters (Motopoulos & Stergio, 2013), South China Sea (Liu et al 2009), from Turkish territorial waters of İskenderun Bay (Başusta & Erdem, 2000), Aegean Sea (İzmir Bay) (Çelik & Oehlenschlger, 2005), with two specimens from Gökova Bay (Öğretmen et al 2005), Bilecenoglu et al(2002) mentioned the finding of T.ovatus in Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea, and the Sea of Marmara and Bilecenoğlu & Öztürk (2019) gave some morphometric and meristic characters of the species from İstanbul Strait. This study aims to confirm its occurrence of T. ovatus with some morphological properties from Çanakkale Strait, the Sea of Marmara and represents a significant range extension to northwards in the Turkish Seas
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