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The confirmed occurrence of two specimens of Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) from Mersin Bay (NE Mediterranean, Turkey)

Year 2021, , 293 - 298, 01.07.2021

Deniz Ergüden , Deniz Ayas

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21023

Abstract

Remoras attach to sharks, big fish, and sea turtles and continue their lives with these creatures. Kapızlı and Tekeli beaches are located near Göksu Delta and Anamur nesting areas of Caretta caretta. In this study, two Remora individuals were caught with a fishing rod in July, when the ovulation was most intense. The smaller remora individual (33 cm) was caught from the coast of Tekeli with the chicken breast at a depth of 2.5 m, and the larger one (66 cm) with bread at a depth of 1.5 m from Kapızlı beach on 24.07.2020. The two Remora individuals caught were probably attached to the sea turtles. However, probably due to sea turtles going to the beach to lay eggs, Remoras started to free-swimming, and they were caught with the fishing line since they could not be fed. The present study reported that the first occurrence of Remora specimens is probably attached to turtles for Turkey's northeastern Mediterranean coast. Besides, this study is provided some morphometric and meristic data on this species and discussed a probable host of these specimens.

Keywords

Echeneidae, Shark sucker, Record, Mediterranean Sea, Turkey

Thanks

The authors would like to thank the fishers for providing the specimen of Remora remora.

References

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  • Brongersma, L.D. (1967). Guide for the identification of stranded turtles on British coasts. British Museum Natural History London, 695, 1-22.
  • Brongersma, L.D. (1972). European Atlantic turtles. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden), 121, 1-318.
  • Claro, R. (1994). Características generales de la ictiofauna. In R. Claro (Ed.,) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba (p. 55-70). Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo.
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  • Quigley, D.T.G., Flannery, K., O'Shea, J. (1994). Remora remora remora L. in Irish waters: Further records and a review of Irish records The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 24(12), 499-502.
  • Sanches, J.G. (1991). Catálogo dos principais peixes marinhos da República de Guiné-Bissau. Publ. Invest. Pescas: Avuls. Inst. Nac., Num. 16, 429 pp.
  • Smith, C.L. (1997). National Audubon Society field guide to tropical marine fishes of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. 720 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., ISBN; 9780679446019
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  • Tuncer, S., A. Orlov, M., Ozen, O. (2012). First record of marlin sucker, Remora osteochir (Cuvier, 1829), from the Northeastern Aegean Sea, Turkey. Journal of Ichthyology, 52(6), 400-408. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945212040145
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  • Wheeler, A.C. (1969). Fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe. London: Macmillan, p. 1-613, ISBN: 10: 0333059557 Wheeler, A.C. (1978). Key to the fishes of northern Europe. London: Frederick Warne, p. 1-380, ISBN: 10: 0723220646 Whitehead, P.J.P., Bauchot, M.L., Hureau, J.C., Nielsen, J., Tortonese, E. (1986). Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Vol. 3, Paris: Unesco, p. 1329-1334, ISBN: 92-3-002215-2

Year 2021, , 293 - 298, 01.07.2021

Deniz Ergüden , Deniz Ayas

https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21023

Abstract

References

  • Alling, A. (1985). Remoras and blue whales: a commensal or mutual interaction? Whalewatcher -Journal of the American Cetacean Society, 19, 6-19.
  • Angel, F. (1922). Description d'une tortue-luth (Dermochelys coriacea Linne.) peches aupres de Biarritz (Basses-Pyrenees). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), 1922, 481-483.
  • Bilecenoglu, M., Kaya, M., Cihangir, B., Çiçek, E. (2014). An updated checklist of the marine fishes of Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology, 38, 901-929. https://doi.org/10.3906/zoo-1405-60
  • Bouxin, J., Bouxin, H., Legendre, R. (1930). Capture d'une tortue luth (Dermochelys coriacea L.), accompagnee de pilotes (Naucrates ductor L.) et de remoras (Echeneis remora L.) pres de Pile aux Moutons. Bulletin de le Soci Zoologique de France, 6, 521-528.
  • Brongersma, L.D. (1967). Guide for the identification of stranded turtles on British coasts. British Museum Natural History London, 695, 1-22.
  • Brongersma, L.D. (1972). European Atlantic turtles. Zoologische Verhandelingen (Leiden), 121, 1-318.
  • Claro, R. (1994). Características generales de la ictiofauna. In R. Claro (Ed.,) Ecología de los peces marinos de Cuba (p. 55-70). Instituto de Oceanología Academia de Ciencias de Cuba and Centro de Investigaciones de Quintana Roo.
  • Eschmeyer, W.N., Herald, E.S., Hammann, H. (1983). A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+ 336 p. Fertl, D., Landry Jr. A.M. (2002). Remoras. In W.F. Perrin, B. Würsig & J.G.M. Thewissen (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals (p. 1013-1015). 1414 pp. New York, NY: Academic Press.
  • Fretey, J. (1978). Accompagnement a terre de tortue luths, Dermochelys coriacea (Linne.) par des Remoras. Revue Francais d'Aquariologie, 5(2), 49-54.
  • Fretey, J. (1979). Commensalisme entre Remora remora (L.) et des tortues marines pendant la nidification. Cybium, 7(3), 40.
  • Fricke, R., Kulbicki, M., Wantiez, L. (2011). Checklist of the fishes of New Caledonia, and their distribution in the Southwest Pacific Ocean (Pisces). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 4, 341-463.
  • Froese, R., Pauly, D. (2020). Fishbase. Worldwide Web Electronic Publication. Retrieved from http://www.fishbase.org (accessed 30.04.2020).
  • IGFA, (2001). Database of IGFA angling records until 2001. IGFA, Fort Lauderdale, USA.
  • IUCN, (2020). Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2020-1. Retrieved from http://www.iucnredlist.org (accessed 02.02.2020).
  • Kaspiris, P., Ondrias, J. (1984). Some rare fishes from the Greek Sea waters. Biljeske - Notes 61, 1-4.
  • Lachner, E.P. (1966). Family Echeneidae: disc fishes. In L.P. et al. Shultz (Eds), Fishes of the Marshall and Mariana Islands (p. 74-80). USA: United States National Museum Bulletin.
  • Lachner, E.A., Post, A. (1990). Echeneidae. In J.C. Quéro, J.C. Hureau, C. Karrer, A. Post & L. Saldanha (Eds.), Check-list of the fishes of the eastern tropical Atlantic (CLOFETA) (p. 725-728). Vol. 2. JNICT, Lisbon; SEI, Paris; and UNESCO, Paris.
  • Mundy, B.C. (2005). Checklist of the fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Bulletin in Zoology, 6, 1-704.
  • Muus, B.J., Nielsen, J.G. (1999). Sea fish. 340 pp. Scandinavian Fishing Year Book, Denmark: Hedehusene, ISBN: 87-90787-00-5
  • Nelson, J.S. (1976). Fishes of the world. 416 pp. New York, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 0‐471‐01497‐4,
  • O’Toole, B. (2002). Phylogeny of the species of the superfamily Echeneoidea (Perciformes: Carangoidei: Echeneidae, Rachycentridae, and Coryphaenidae), with an interpretation of echeneid hitchhiking behaviour. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 80, 596-623. https://doi.org/10.1139/z02-031
  • Paulin, C.D., Habib, G. (1982). Remoras (Pisces: Echeneidae) from New Zealand, New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 9(1), 33-36. https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.1982.10423834
  • Phillipps, W.J. (1964). The occurrence of remora in Cook Strait. Records of the Dominion Museum, 5(10), 74-75.
  • Quigley, D.T.G., Flannery, K., O'Shea, J. (1994). Remora remora remora L. in Irish waters: Further records and a review of Irish records The Irish Naturalists' Journal, 24(12), 499-502.
  • Sanches, J.G. (1991). Catálogo dos principais peixes marinhos da República de Guiné-Bissau. Publ. Invest. Pescas: Avuls. Inst. Nac., Num. 16, 429 pp.
  • Smith, C.L. (1997). National Audubon Society field guide to tropical marine fishes of the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, Florida, the Bahamas, and Bermuda. 720 pp. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., ISBN; 9780679446019
  • Stamouli, C., Akel, E., Azzurro, E., Bakiu, R., Bas, A., Bitar, G., Boyacı, Y., Cakallı, M., Corsini-Foka, M., Crocetta, F., Dragičević, B., Dulčić, J., Durucan, F., Zrelli, R., Erguden, D., Filiz, H., Giardina, F., Giovos, I., Gönülal, O., Hemida, F., Kassar, A., Kondylatos, G., Macalı, A., Mancini, E., Ovalis, P., Paladini De Mendoza, F., Pavičič, M., Rabaoui, L., Rızkalla, S., Tiralongo, F., Turan, C., Vrdoljak, D., Yapıcı, S., Zenetos, A. (2018). New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (December 2017). Mediterranean Marine Science, 18(3), 534-556. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.15823
  • Tuncer, S., A. Orlov, M., Ozen, O. (2012). First record of marlin sucker, Remora osteochir (Cuvier, 1829), from the Northeastern Aegean Sea, Turkey. Journal of Ichthyology, 52(6), 400-408. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945212040145
  • Türkozan, O., Kaska, Y. (2010). Turkey. In P. Casale & D. Margaritoulis (Eds.), Sea turtles in the Mediterranean: distribution, threats and conservation priorities (p. 257-293). Switzerland: IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group, Gland. ISBN: 978-2-8317-1240-6
  • Wheeler, A.C. (1969). Fishes of the British Isles and north-west Europe. London: Macmillan, p. 1-613, ISBN: 10: 0333059557 Wheeler, A.C. (1978). Key to the fishes of northern Europe. London: Frederick Warne, p. 1-380, ISBN: 10: 0723220646 Whitehead, P.J.P., Bauchot, M.L., Hureau, J.C., Nielsen, J., Tortonese, E. (1986). Fishes of the north-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Vol. 3, Paris: Unesco, p. 1329-1334, ISBN: 92-3-002215-2
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Primary Language English
Subjects Hydrobiology
Journal Section Short Communication
Authors

Deniz Ergüden 0000-0002-2597-2151

Deniz Ayas 0000-0001-6762-6284

Publication Date July 1, 2021
Submission Date August 23, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2021

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APA Ergüden, D., & Ayas, D. (2021). The confirmed occurrence of two specimens of Remora remora (Linnaeus, 1758) from Mersin Bay (NE Mediterranean, Turkey). Aquatic Research, 4(3), 293-298. https://doi.org/10.3153/AR21023

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