First documented record of neonate angular roughshark Oxynotus centrina from the eastern Adriatic Sea

First record of Ebria tripartita (Schumann) Lemmermann, 1899 from south of the Caspian Sea

Ebria tripartita (Schumann) Lemmermann, 1899, a non-photosynthetic flagellate was identified from the southern coast of the Caspian Sea in December 2012. Water temperature at the sampling time was 10 ºC.  The abundance of total phytoplankton cells was 3 × 106 Cells.l-1, while E. tripartita with 2 × 10 3 Cells. l-1 included 0.75% of phytoplankton community. Water quality parameters were recorded...

The first record of southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi from Northern Oman Sea, Iran

The first record of southern ocean sunfish, Mola ramsayi from Northern Oman Sea, Iran

Biometry analysis of the black scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus (Linnaeus, 1758) from the eastern Adriatic Sea

the black scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus (Linnaeus, 1758), is one of the most common species of Scorpaenidae family in the Mediterranean and the adriatic Sea. apart from the adriatic, it is distributed in the whole Mediterranean, including the Black Sea, and along the eastern atlantic coast, from the British isles to the azores and the Canary islands (HUreaU & LitViNeNko, 1986). S. porcus is an...

The first record of microalga Amorphochlora amoebiformis from Iran

A microalgafrom Chlorarachniaceae was found in the shallow runoffs of south Tehran. Morphological and intracellular structures were studied which in accordance with the identification key (Hirakawa et al. 2011), it is found to be a new species for Iran called Amorphochlora amoebiformis (Ishida & Y. Hara) Ishida, Yabuki & S. Ota. This algahas been derived and ...