EASTERNMOST RECORD OF THE LANCET FISH, NOTOSCOPELUS KROYERI (ACTINOPTERYGII: MYCTOPHIFORMES: MYCTOPHIDAE), IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

Keskin C., Eryilmaz L.

ACTA ICHTHYOLOGICA ET PISCATORIA, vol.40, no.1, pp.79-81, 2010 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 40 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Doi Number: 10.3750/aip2010.40.1.12
  • Journal Name: ACTA ICHTHYOLOGICA ET PISCATORIA
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.79-81
  • Keywords: Notoscopelus kroyeri, lancet fish, Myctophidae, first record, deep-sea fish, easternmost Mediterranean Sea
  • Istanbul University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

One specimen of lancet fish, Notoscopelus kroyeri (Malm, 1861), was collected in March 2007 by commercial bottom trawl in the Aegean Sea. This record consists the easternmost record of lancet fish in the Mediterranean Sea. Morphometric and meristic characteristics of this species are given.