First inland records of the euryhaline goby Knipowitschia caucasica from lakes in Anatolia, Turkey

Abstract

Knipowitschia caucasica, a euryhaline Ponto‐Caspian‐Aegean gobiid fish, is recorded for the first time from Lakes Eǧirdir, Eber and Demirköprü (Anatolia). Its presence in these lakes is probably due to involuntary introduction with common carp from hatcheries in the Edirne‐Ipsala region, Thrace, the European part of Turkey.

Population dynamics and feeding ecology of the invasive Caucasian dwarf goby, Knipowitschia caucasica, in a freshwater habitat in Ukraine

“…The Caucasian dwarf goby has successfully established in freshwater bodies around the Black Sea and Mediterranean region. These include the Metsamor River and Ararat Valley reservoirs of Armenia (Gabrielyan, 2001); Lake Trichonis, Aliakmon and Itamos Rivers in Greece (Daoulas et al, 1993, Economidis et al, 1981, Economidis and Miller, 1990; some water bodies of the Tisza River basin in Hungary and Serbia (Harka et al, 2015a(Harka et al, , 2015bAntal et al, 2015); a number of water bodies in Turkey including E girdir, Eber, Sapanca, Beysehir and Büyükçekmece lakes and the Evros river basin (Neer et al, 1999;Balık et al, 2005;Özulu g et al, 2007;Güçlü and Erdo gan, 2017). The first record of the Caucasian dwarf goby in Ukrainian freshwaters is dated to 2006, when one specimen of this species was caught in the Dnieper Reservoir in Zaporizhia region (Pan'kov, 2007).…”