LIMNOFAUNA OF BAKIRÇAY RIVER BASIN
Project no. 1162 · Status: Kapanmış · 2016
Summary
In order to determine limnofaunistic properties of Bakırçay Stream, 15 sampling station (4 lentic, 11 lotic) was selected and 4 field work was conducted as a seasonal between October 2017 and July 2018. As a result of biological studies, a total of 265 taxa were identified including 113 taxa of zooplankton (91 Rotifera, 17 Cladocera, and 5 Copepoda), 135 taxa of benthic invertebrata (4 Hirudinea, 25 Oligochaeta, 14 Mollusca, 5 Malacostraca, 14 Ephemeroptera, 32 Diptera, 10 Trichoptera, 12 Coleoptera, 6 Hemiptera, 2 Plecoptera, 11 Odonata) and 17 taxa of vertebrata (Teleostei). Among the identified Rotifera taxa Adineta oculata (Milne, 1886), Euchlanis lyra larga (Kutikova, 1959), Monommata viridis Myers 1937, Trichocerca rattus carinata (Ehrenberg,1830), Trichocerca cylindrica chattoni (De Beauchamp, 1907) and Trichocerca ruttneri (Donner, 1953) are new record for Turkish Freshwater Fauna. Additionaly, fish fauna was found to consist of mostly Cyprinidae family members and Alburnus attalus is the most common species.