Notes on amphipods Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 and Podocerus chelonophilus (Chevreux & Guerne, 1888) collected from the loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, off the Mediterranean and the Aegean coasts of Turkey
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2009
Yazarlar: Murat Sezgi̇n, A. Suat Ateş, Tuncer Katağan, Ahmet Kerem BAKIR, Şükran Yalçın Özdilek
TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, Uluslararası, 2009, cilt 33, ss 433-437
Özet
The present study reports the occurrence of 2 amphipod species, Caprella andreae Mayer, 1890 and Podocerus chelonophilus Chevreux & Guerne, 1888, that appeared on the carapace of the loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Levantine Sea). The amphipod specimens were found on a male Caretta caretta captured during experimental bottom studies conducted off Samandag, Hatay (the Turkish Mediterranean coast) on 7 April 2007. In addition, Caprella andreae Mayer 1890 was collected from the nets of fish cages off the Seferihisar (Aegean Sea) coast (38°11'32N, 26°38'07E). C. andreae is a first report for the amphipod fauna in Turkish seas.