Mesopelagic species are enjoining increasing attention due to the growing impact of
fisheries activities on deep marine biocenosis. Improving the knowledge base on …

The Turkish marine fish diversity was revised and updated in this study based on data
published in the last decade. There arecurrently 552 species in the inventory, reflecting an …

Target strength (TS) is an acoustic property of individual marine organisms and a critical
factor in acoustic resource assessments. However, previous studies have primarily focused …

The garfish Belone belone represents the only valid endemic Belone species for the
Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It shows a wide global distribution …

This Collective Article presents information about 30 species with records in eight countries
(Greece, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria and Türkiye) and six ecoregions …

Lampriform fishes (Lampriformes), which primarily inhabit deep-sea environments, are large
marine fishes varying from the whole-body endothermic opah to the world's longest bony …

Monitoring the occurrence and distribution of rare fish species is essential, especially in a
semi-closed basin such as the Mediterranean Sea. Biologically interesting species often …

Ray-finned fishes, which compose nearly half of living vertebrate diversity, provide an
excellent system for studying the evolution of novel body forms. Lampriformes is a species …

The finding of two specimens of oarfish, Regalecus glesne, in the north-western Ionian Sea
(central Mediterranean), in the years 2021 and 2022 and at depths of 525 and 350 m …

In the present paper we report the first substantiated record of the Scalloped ribbonfish Zu
cristatus (Bonelli, 1819) from the Mediterranean coast of Israel. The previous …