- Cemal Turan
Marine Science Department, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Iskenderun Technical University, 31220 Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye.
cemal.turan@iste.edu.tr - Deniz Yağlıoğlu
Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Duzce University, 81620 Duzce, Türkiye
- Servet Ahmet Doğdu
Iskenderun Technical University, Maritime Vocational School of Higher Education, Underwater Technologies, 31220 Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye.
- Mevlüt Gürlek
Marine Science Department, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Iskenderun Technical University, 31220 Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye.
- Deniz Ergüden
Marine Science Department, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Iskenderun Technical University, 31220 Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye.
- Petya Pavlova Ivanova
Marine Biology and Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna, Bulgaria.
- Violin Stoyanov Raykov
Marine Biology and Ecology Department, Institute of Oceanology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Varna, Bulgaria.
Volume 8 - No: 2
Existence of Belone svetovidovi Collette & Parin, 1970 in the Marmara Sea and Black Sea Coasts of Türkiye
DOI: 10.28978/nesciences.1331296
Keywords: Belonidae, short-beaked garfish, first record, existence, Marmara Sea, Black Sea
Abstract
The first morphologic and genetic documentation of the short-beaked garfish Belone svetovidovi Collette & Parin, 1970 from the coast of the Marmara Sea (Yalova) and Black Sea (Akcakoca) is reported in the present study. The morphological characters and genetic (mtDNA COI) analyses confirmed the existence of this species both in the Marmara and Black Seas. B. svetovidovi is genetically distinct from the anther species of this genus Belone belone. All morphologic measurements, counts, and colour descriptions of B. svetovidovi agree with its previous descriptions.