Industrial effluents, agricultural runoff, and municipal wastewaters contain unknown substances complex mixtures that are released into the environment can lead to contamination of surface subsurface waters. Such activities have endangered existence ecosystems their inhabitants. Changes in genome caused by genotoxic agents led mutations pose a burden populations fish species. In present study, ...

A group of schools striped eel catfish Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) was photographed during scuba diving at depths 10 m and 17 on 11 July 2022 24 September from Kızkalesi Boğsak regions in the Mersin Bay Mediterranean coast Turkey. With present study, P. is extending its distribution to western coastal waters after first occurrence 2016 İskenderun Turkish Marine waters.

Bisfenol A (BPA), gıda kaplarında, diş macunlarında, tıbbi ekipmanlarda, mutfak eşyalarında, su borularında ve elektronik aletlerde yaygın olarak kullanılan endokrin bozucu kimyasal bir maddedir. BPA insanlara diğer canlılara kontamine içeceklerle bulaşmaktadır. Çevresel kirleticilerin çoğunda olduğu gibi kontaminasyonu en fazla göl, nehir denizlerde meydana gelmektedir. Bu ortamlardaki miktarı...

In this study, one specimen of Lagocephalus guentheri, the largest individual (536 mm) ever recorded, was obtained from Iskenderun Bay, Levantine Sea. The caught two nautical miles off Samandağ coast at a depth 128 m with commercial trawler. present finding reports maximum length and deepest record species for Mediterranean Apparently, distribution in Sea will expand following years.

The purpose of this study was to determine the accumulation levels ten metals (Fe, Zn, Cd, Cu, Co, Ni, Al, Mn, Pb, and Cr) in muscle tissues Actina equina indvduals. A total 120 individuals A. were collected at six different stations İskenderun Bay spring 2013. heavy found vary significantly among stations. mean concentrations Fe highest Samandağ station (105.11 ± 74.28 mg/kg) whereas lowest av...

A single specimen of Prostheceraeus roseus was recorded for the first time on 25 April 2019 from Cevlik coast, Iskenderun Bay (Eastern Mediterranean, Turkey). After, other a Tylodina perversa observed during Scuba diving Keldag located within Mediterranean), at depth 12 m rocky habitat covered with algae. The present finding is occurrence and eastern Turkey. Although these species are live in M...

The present study is dealing with three Circulus species recorded along the Turkish coasts (İskenderun Bay, Levantine coast of Türkiye). Of identified species, novemcarinatus and octoliratus are non-indigenous originated outside Mediterranean Sea, whereas striatus a native one distributed in eastern Atlantic Ocean Sea. While was at depths between 9 60 m, were encountered shallow (5-11.7 respect...