Lake Hazar is an alkaline oligotrophic lake of tectonic origin, located in the Eastern Anatolia region in Turkey, 1248 a a.s.l. Its surface area is 80 km2, the average depth 93 m and maximum depth 205 m. The lake and its surroundings an under protection as a region of historical value. During the present study (2007-2012), samples were taken from 15 stations located at a depth of 2-200 m. Oligo...

macrocyclops albidus and cyclops vicinus are the two important copepods living in hazar lake.for this study, 50 females for each species were collected. samples were taken between december 1999 andmarch 2000. length (pl), width (pw), and height (ph) of prosome and length (ul) and width (uw) ofurosome were measured in each female and subsequently, the following ratios pl/pw, pl/ph, pw/ph,pl/ul a...

In a study of the fishes Lake Hazar, and Tigris, Euphrates Kueik rivers were recorded four species Squalius belonging to Squalis cephalus-group found: The western drainage River (Tohma Stream) population was identified as S. seyhanensis, northern drainages semae, populations berak. comparison 28 metric, 9 meristic parameters morphological characters showed that Hazar upper Tigris are distinct b...

In the present study, adult male specimens from non-biting midge family (Chironomidae) collected around Hazar Lake (Elazığ, Türkiye) in 2021 were evaluated taxonomically. We a total of 17 species three subfamilies Tanypodinae, Orthocladiinae, and Chironominae. Two Cryptotendipes pseudotener (Goetghebuer, 1922), Dicrotendipes pallidicornis 1934) are new faunistic records for Türkiye. 11 observed...