A single female specimen of the Kitefin shark Dalatias licha (Dalatiidae), 118 cm in total length (TL), was caught by a commercial trammel net at a depth of 40 m on 11th June 2016 off the Çevlik coast (Eastern Mediterranean), Turkey. The present paper was the first confirmation of an adult female specimen of D. licha from the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Measurements of the specimen were given and the geographical distribution of the species in the Mediterranean was documented.
İskenderun Körfezi'nde (Doğu Akdeniz Bölgesi) Ergin Dişi Uçurtma Yüzgeçli Köpekbalığı, Dalatias licha'nın (Bonnaterre, 1788) VarlığıÖzet: Türkiye'nin Çevlik (Doğu Akdeniz) sahillerinden 11 Haziran 2016 tarihinde 118 cm toplam boyunda uçurtma yüzgeçli köpek balığı, Dalatias licha'nın tek bir dişi bireyi ticari troll ağı ile 40 m derinlikten avlanmıştır. Sunulan bu makale yetişkin dişi bir birey D. licha'nın Türkiye'nin Akdeniz sahillerinden ilk teyididir. Örneğin ölçümleri yapılarak bu türün Akdeniz'deki coğrafik dağılımı belgelenmiştir.
In order to assess the relationship between the oppiid mite species (Acari, Oribatida) collected from Turkey, traditional and geometric morphometric methods were used. We have taken photographs of 128 specimens belonging to 11 species from six subfamilies of Oppiidae. These photographs were digitized and 17 interval measurements were taken for traditional morphometric analysis, and 20 landmarks were recognized on the ventral surface of each specimen for geometric morphometric analysis. The effectiveness to separate taxa was compared between the two morphometric analyses. In both dendrograms Oppia nitens formed a single cluster, Oxyoppia ilicaensis was singled out from the remaining nine species, which were clustered together. Two species, Lauroppia fallax and Rhinoppia obsoleta, clustered together implying a very close relationship.
Summary
Length–weight and length–length relationships are presented for four freshwater fish species [Liza abu (Heckel, 1843), Aphanius mento (Heckel, 1843), Oxynoemacheilus hamwii (Krupp & Schneider, 1991) and Chondrostoma kinzelbachi Krupp, 1985] captured in Gölbaşı Lake, Hatay, Anatolia. No information regarding length–weight relationships was reported previously in FishBase for C. kinzelbachi, A. mento and O. hamwii. Specimens were obtained from January to May 2012 using electrofishing and cast nets. This study presents the first study on LWR data for C. kinzelbachi, A. mento and O. hamwii.
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