The aim of this study was to provide baseline data and fill an outstanding knowledge gap in our understanding of factors affecting the invasiveness of the Ponto-Caspian gobiid Neogobius fluviatilis. To this end, the life ...

Cnidarians play an important role in ecosystem functioning, in the competition among species, and for possible utilization of several active compounds against cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine, immune, infective, and ...

Pseudophoxinus anatolicus (Hanko, 1924) is an endemic and endengared fish in Anatolia. The species has been restricted to Beysehir Lake and Akgol Lake in central Anatolia. Now this species disappeared in Beysehir Lake ...

In this research, age, sex compositions, mortality, age-length, age-weight, length-weight relations, condition factors of white bream, Blicca bjoerkna (L., 1758), were determined from 183 specimens between April 2002 and ...

This paper presents records extending or confirming the distribution of Mediterranean species. Three alien algae are included, namely Codium taylorii reported for the first time from the Aegean and Turkey (Izmir Gulf), ...

The plerocercoid stage of Ligula intestinalis has been recorded from the body cavity of a wide range of fish species, particularly the Cyprinidae (Williams and Jones, 1994). In Turkish waters, published records have shown ...

Lengthweight relationships were calculated for nine freshwater fish species belonging to two families using 1020 specimens from 15 water sources in the western part of Anatolia, Turkey. This study is the first reference ...

The Prussian carp (Carassius gibelio) a member of Cyprinidae, is a benthopelagic, non-migratory, living fresh and brackish water, and omnivore (Dulmaa, 1999) and able to reproduce from unfertilized eggs (gynogenesis). The ...

The current study aims to investigate the problem of pollution of the Caspian Sea in Azerbaijan and the factors causing this pollution. To this end 3 water samples were taken and analyzed from the wastewater discharged by ...