FIRST RECORD OF LARVAL STAGE OF THE EUROPEAN CONGER EEL CONGER CONGER (PISCES: CONGRIDAE) IN IZMIR BAY (CENTRAL AEGEAN SEA OF TURKEY)
Articles > Article · 2015
Authors: Burcu TAYLAN, BELGİN HOŞSUCU
FRESENIUS ENVIRONMENTAL BULLETIN, Journal Indexed in SCI Expanded, International, 2015, vol 24, pp 3676-3678
Summary
In October 2012, in the vicinity of Uzunada in Izmir Bay, a leptocephalus larva of the species Conger conger (Linnaeus, 1758) was collected by vertical hauls using a WP2 net (57 cm diameter mouth opening, 200 gm mesh size). Morphometric measurements, such as total length, pre-anal length, head height and eye diameter, and meristic characteristics, such as total number of myomeres and preanal myomere number, were identified. Additionally, a figure with the shape of a leptocephalus larva as well as the pigmentation structure was illustrated.