A single specimen of nakedband gaper, Champsodon nudivittis (Ogilby, 1895), indigenous to the Indo West Pacific, was captured on 18 January 2008 from the Iskenderun Bay, Turkey. This is the first record of this species in the Mediterranean Sea. The most likely way of introduction would be via ships’ ballast waters.

The first record of bluespotted cornetfish Fistularia commersonii Rüppell, 1835, (Fistulariidae) from the depth of 30 m, caught off the coast of Benghazi, Libya (Southern Mediterranean), is reported herewith.

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The first record of imperial blackfish, Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier, 1833), in the Greek waters of the Aegean Sea is herewith documented. This record increases the knowledge on the richness of the Hellenic marine ichthyofauna and may suggest an expansion of the geographical distribution of the species from the southern Levantine waters to northern areas

In 2008, a specimen of a pignosed arrowtooth eel, Dysomma brevirostre (Facciolà, 1887), was caught by a bottom trawling operation at Sigacik Bay (Aegean Sea), Turkey. Total length (TL) and weight of the fish were 23.2 cm and 2.00 g, respectively. This study reports the first record of D. brevirostre from the Aegean Sea and logs a new species for the Turkish Ichthyofauna

On 14 July 2007 two metamorphosed males of the Po brook lamprey, Lethenteron zanandreai (Vladykov, 1955), were caught in the Hutovo Blato wetland, Neretva River basin (Adriatic Sea watershed) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the first report on the occurrence of this species in the waters of Bosnia and Herzegovina. New evidence of their original distributional range extended eastward is presented

The lesser amberjack, Seriola fasciata, was recorded for the first time in the Levant. This species was known hitherto from the Atlantic Ocean and western and central Mediterranean and southeastern Aegean Sea.

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The parameters of length–weight relations for Anatolian khramulya, Capoeta tinca (Heckel, 1843) from 10 inland bodies of water of the Samsun Province, Northern Turkey were presented. The b values of the length–weight relations ranged from 2.5444 to 3.3517. For nine freshwater resources in Samsun, this study is the first reference on length–weight relation of Capoeta tinca

A single adult female specimen of Halosaurus ovenii Johnson, 1864 was captured by trammel nets at a depth of about 200 m off the coast of Arbatax (Sardinia, Italy) in early April 2007. Macroscopic and microscopic analysis of the gonad showed a postspawning ovary. This is the fourth documented capture of this fish in the Mediterranean Sea, representing the north-easternmost record for this species in this geographic area. Furthermore, the present specimen was fished at the shallowest depth ever recorded before.

Five combinations of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) dose and five latency
periods were evaluated to observe the pattern of deformed larvae among the
hatchlings in walking catfish, Clarias batrachus (L.). A
higher percentage (7%–12%) of deformed larvae were observed at 1000, 2000, and
5000 IU · kg-1 with 14–23 h latency combinations.
The results of the study indicated that 3000 IU · kg-1 with 14–23 h and 4000 IU · kg-1 with 14–17 h latency combinations were preferable to
reduce the deformed larvae (4%–6%) among the hatchlings during induced spawning
of the catfish

One specimen (TL = 532 mm, W = 662 g) of the yellowmouth
barracuda, Sphyraena viridensis, was caught by an angler
on 3 August 2008 in front of the Port of Rijeka (Northern Adriatic). Being
caught at the geographic latitude of 45°17'N, makes this record the northernmost
occurrence of this species in the Mediterranean.

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