Range expansion of an invasive pufferfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), to the south-western Mediterranean

First record of an invasive Lessepsian migrant, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae), in the Sea of Marmara

“…Dorsal fi n rays 12, anal fi n rays 10 and pectoral fi n rays 18. All the other diagnostic features of the specimen were in accordance with Kara et al (2015), Kalogirou (2013), Milazzo et al (2012), andAkyol et al (2005). Remarks.…”

“…After its fi rst occurrence in the Mediterranean it became one of the most common Lessepsian species in the Levantine basin and has showed expansion reaching the northern parts of the Aegean and Adriatic seas and west to Spanish coast (Katsanevakis and Tsiamis 2009). Milazzo et al (2012), Ben Souissi et al (2014, and Kara et al (2015) provided further evidence of its occurrence along north-African coasts. In addition to the above-mentioned records, Katsanevakis et al (2014a) reported a single specimen from north-western Mediterranean over muddy bottoms in the Ibiza channel, Spain and they confi rmed its entry into the western basin of the Mediterranean.…”

Extensive use of Fish Aggregating Devices together with environmental change influenced the spatial distribution of a tropical affinity fish

“…The study of distribution and expansion of marine species based on the analysis of records from literature has been widely used 14,29–33 . However, the use of historical data records can also present limits because the number of records from the literature is not always an indicator of real abundance of a species in a zone.…”

“…crysos distribution shifts in the Mediterranean Sea, which is similar to other studies on the expansion of C . crysos 14,35 and other thermophilic species in the Mediterranean Sea 32,33 .…”

Proximate composition and fatty acid profiles of common pufferfish species in the Mediterranean Sea

“…However, their presence in the Mediterranean is new, and they have been spreading rapidly through the Mediterranean in the last few decades (Kosker et al ., 2018b). For example, Lagocephalus sceleratus was first reported in Turkish waters in 2003 (Akyol et al ., 2005) but now has spread to the Adriatic coasts (Dulčić & Dragičević, 2014), southern Italy (Azzurro et al ., 2014), Algeria (Kara et al ., 2015) and Spain (Rambla‐Alegre et al ., 2017). Pufferfish cause significant problems during traditional fishing and are threating native species in the Mediterranean leading to significant economic loss (Coro et al ., 2018).…”