Presence of Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776) in Iskenderun Bay, Turkey

Ergüden, Deniz; Gürlek, Mevlüt; Ergüden, Sibel Alagöz; Ayas, Deniz; Altun, Ayhan

doi:10.1007/s41208-019-00177-9

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“…Share it!!!" was launched [38,[42][43][44][45][46], whereas, in this article, we report the occurrence of 26 individuals contributing with 74.2% during the same period. Of course, it can be hard to determine whether the species density in the region has increased or if the reports were overlooked before pictures of the species were circulated on social media as something rare.…”

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Filling the Gap of Data-Limited Fish Species in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: A Contribution by Citizen Science

Spyridopoulou¹,

Langeneck

Bouziotis³

et al. 2020

JMSE

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The biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea is rapidly changing due to anthropogenic activity and the recent increase of seawater temperature. Citizen science is escalating as an important contributor in the inventory of rare and data-limited species. In this study, we present several records of five data-limited native fish species from the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Alectis alexandrina (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1817), Ranzania laevis (Pennant, 1776), Dalatias licha (Bonnaterre, 1788), Lophotus lacepede (Giorna, 1809), and Sudis hyalina (Rafinesque, 1810). All of the records were collected by a participatory process involving fishers and validated by associated taxonomic experts of the citizen science programme “Is it Alien to you? Share it!!!”. This study fills an important gap for the distribution of the reported species and signifies the important role of citizen participation as a tool for extending marine biodiversity knowledge and fisheries management in an area with several gaps of knowledge on targeted and non-targeted species.

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