Three fish species, Bregmaceros atlanticus Goode et Bean, 1886 (Bregmacerotidae), Echiodon dentatus (Cuvier, 1829) (Carapidae), and Nemichthys scolopaceus Richardson, 1848 (Nemichthyidae) were recorded in the Sığacık and Kuşadası Bays (Eastern Aegean Sea, Turkey). B. atlanticus and E. dentatus constitute new records for the Turkish waters and the Aegean Sea, respectively. The finding of Nemichthys scolopaceus is the second record for the Aegean Sea.

Abstract:Both color and morphological abnormalities on two different flatfish species [Dicologlossa cuneata (Moreau, 1881) and Scophthalmus maeoticus (Pallas, 1814)] have been recorded from Turkish seas. Abnormal flatfish species, Dicologlossa cuneata (Moreau, 1881), wedge sole, was sampled from two different localities in Aegean sea. First wedge sole from Izmir bay (Aegean sea) had three different colour abnormalities (ambicoloration; albinism and xanthochroism) on eyed and blind sides of their body. Other abnormal wedge sole specimen from Ekincik cove (Aegean sea) had ambicoloration on blind side of the body. Second abnormal flatfish species Scophthalmus maeoticus (Pallas, 1814), Black sea turbot, was caught from the Black sea coast of Istanbul and the specimen had totally ambicolored (blind side of the body was colored as like as eyed side) and morphological abnormalities (a fleshy piece-hook-above the head).

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Flatfishes in pleuronectiformes order are of great importance as a natural source in the world seas and oceans in terms of their number of species and fisheries potantialities. Annual total of catch of their economic species amounts to 1.000.000 tons in the world. Flatfishes are always first in rank compared with other fish species both in taste and prices. In addition, total amount of flatfishes grown by aquacultural processes constitutes 8% total sum of sea fishes universally produced by breeding. The present study informs you on updated knowledge of methods of breeding, processing and consuming flatfishes in pleuronectiformes order as well as their fishing zones and quantities of catch.

Öz: Uzungöl (Trabzon)'un bentik makro-omurgasız türlerinin belirlenmesi sırasında, bir tatlısu süngeri olan Spongilla lacustris kolonilerine rastlanmıştır. Sünger kolonileri, gölün zemininden (2 metre derinlik) standart sucul makrofit örnekleme ekipmanı (tırmık) ile örneklenmişlerdir. Bu kayıt türün Uzungöl ve Doğu Karadeniz Bölgesi'nden ilk kaydı niteliğindedir.