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- Title
New record for the mollusca fauna of the black sea coast (sinop peninsula) of turkey: white belted shell, Tornus subcarinatus (Montagu, 1803), (Gastropoda, Tornidae).
- Authors
Culha, Mehmet; Sezgin, Murat
- Abstract
The present study is concerned with one prosobranch gastropod species [Tornus subcarinatus (Montagu, 1803)], obtained during the benthic sampling by surveying at the upper-infralittoral zone (10-20 m.) of the Sinop Peninsula coasts between the years 2010 and 2011. A total of 155 species of marine Gastropoda (Mollusca) are known in the Black Sea coast of Turkey. However, the Prosobranch gastropod Tornus subcarinatus (Montagu, 1803) is recorded for the first time from the central Black Sea of Turkey. Previous records of the species were confined to the southern part of the Turkey, it is occurrence at Turkish coast of the Black Sea extends its distribution range to the Black Sea continued to Turkish coastal waters of Black Sea.
- Subjects
BLACK Sea Coast (Turkey); MOLLUSKS; GASTROPODA; TERRITORIAL waters; MARINE species diversity
- Publication
Indian Journal of Marine Sciences, 2019, Vol 48, Issue 10, p1503
- ISSN
0379-5136
- Publication type
Article