“…In terms of fish biodiversity, in previous studies conducted on artificial habitats such as shipwrecks and sea-cage fish farms, and natural reefs, it has been stated that 27-40 fish species belong to 10-22 families (Gül et al, 2006(Gül et al, , 2011Lök et al, 2008;Akyol et al, 2019;Acarlı et al, 2020). In addition, in the other studies that focused on the cryptobenthic fishes, 19 species were stated by Dalyan et al (2021), 23 species by Kesici & Dalyan (2020), and 33 gobiid species were stated from the northeastern Aegean by Engin et al (2018). In the scope of this study, 39 species belonging to 14 families were observed in the natural habitat.…”