the summer and rear their young in the Propontis (Sea of Marmara) and winter in the Aegean" (Historia Animalium, translated by Cresswell, 1878).Given the historical and geographical importance of the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea, many ancient naturalists dealt specifically with the fishery activities in Abstract: The current status of marine fishes distributed along the Turkish coasts is reviewed and an updated checklist including 512 species is presented. In this study, 5 species are recorded for the first time from Turkey (