First inland records of the euryhaline goby Knipowitschia caucasica from lakes in Anatolia, Turkey

Authors
Van Neer, W Wildekamp, RH Kucuk, F Unlusayin, M
Citation
W. Van Neer et al., First inland records of the euryhaline goby Knipowitschia caucasica from lakes in Anatolia, Turkey, J FISH BIOL, 54(6), 1999, pp. 1334-1337
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Aquatic Sciences
Journal title
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
ISSN journal
00221112 → ACNP
Volume
54
Issue
6
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1334 - 1337
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-1112(199906)54:6<1334:FIROTE>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Knipowitschia caucasica, a euryhaline Ponto-Caspian-Aegean gobiid fish, is recorded for the first time from Lakes Egirdir, Eber and Demirkopru (Anatol ia). Its presence in these lakes is probably due to involuntary introductio n with common carl, from hatcheries in the Edirne-Ipsala region, Thrace, th e European part of Turkey. (C) 1999 The Fisheries Society of the British Is les.