1. First record of the Indian Ocean twospot cardinalfish, Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Apogonidae), from Turkish marine waters
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Cemal Turan, Servet Ahmet Doğdu, Z A Erdogan, Bektaş Sönmez, Serpil Karan, Mevlüt Gürlek, Ali Uyan, Deniz Ergüden, Necdet Uygur, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, [Turan, Cemal -- Erguden, Deniz -- Uygur, Necdet -- Gurlek, Mevlut -- Uyan, Ali -- Karan, Serpil -- Dogdu, Servet A.] Mustafa Kemal Univ, Fac Marine Sci & Technol, TR-31220 Iskenderun, Hatay, Turkey -- [Erdogan, Zeliha A.] Cumhuriyet Univ, Fisheries Program, Susehri Timur Karabal Vocat Sch, Sivas, Turkey -- [Sonmez, Bektas] Balikesir Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Biol, Balikesir, Turkey, Turan, Cemal -- 0000-0001-9584-0261, DOGDU, SERVET AHMET -- 0000-0003-2939-5838, and Erguden, Deniz -- 0000-0002-2597-2151
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fish ,Lessepsian migration ,biology ,Turkish ,colonisation ,Actinopterygii ,range extension ,Aquatic Science ,biology.organism_classification ,Cheilodipterus novemstriatus ,Apogonidae ,Perciformes ,language.human_language ,Fishery ,Indian ocean ,Geography ,language ,%22">Fish ,first country record - Abstract
WOS: 000363424700012, Indian Ocean twospot cardinalfish, Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (Ruppell, 1838), is recorded for the first time from the Turkish marine waters. Two specimens of C. novemstriatus were sampled with a purse seiner on 1 December 2014, and also a school of C. novemstriatus was photographed during scuba diving at a depth of 13 m on a rocky surface on 8 December 2014 in the Cevlik coast, Iskenderun Bay, north-eastern Mediterranean of Turkey. With the present report, the number of alien cardinal fish species reported in the Turkish coasts has reached five.
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- 2015
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