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The lionfish Pterois miles was first recorded in the Iskenderun Bay on 2014 in Turkish Marine waters, and then its distribution was extended to Mersin and Antalya Bays in 2014 in the Mediterranean part of Turkey. The first observation of P. miles in the Aegean Sea was fr...
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... The occurrence of the red lionfish, P. volitans, has been reported from Turkey (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al., 2017) the Mediterranean clustered with that group (Figure 2). In addition, the DAPC did not place any individual in an intermediate position between the "P. ...
... According to Wilcox et al. (2018), western Atlantic invasive P. volitans lionfish are ancestral hybrids between the sister lineages P. miles and P. russelii. In the present study, despite the reported observations of P. volitans individuals in the Mediterranean (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al., 2017), no evidence of presence or hybridization was observed. ...
The rate of biological invasions is steadily increasing, with major ecological and economic impacts accounting for billions of dollars in damage as a result. One spectacular example is the western Atlantic invasion by lionfishes. In the Mediterranean Sea, invasions from the Red Sea via the Suez Canal (termed Lessepsian invasions) comprise more than 100 fish species, including a recent invasion by lionfish. In light of the devastating effects of lionfish in the Caribbean Sea, understanding the dynamics of Mediterranean lionfish invasion is crucial. The Lessepsian lionfish invasion started in 2012, and rapidly spread to the central Mediterranean. Here, we used thousands of RAD seq genomic markers to study the population dynamics of this invasion. While we did not find a reduction in genetic diversity between source (Red Sea) and invasive (Mediterranean) populations (i.e., bottleneck effects), we found evidence of population structure within the invasive range in the Mediterranean Sea. We found that loci that are potentially under selection may play an important role in invasion success (in particular, genes involved in osmoregulation and fin spine sizes). Genomic approaches proved powerful in examining the ecological and evolutionary patterns of successful invaders and may be used as tools to understand and potentially mitigate future invasions.
... Pterois miles are venomous fish and spread in the Mediterranean Sea from the eastern part to northward. The fish was firstly observed in the southern Aegean Sea in 2015 (Turan et al. 2017). ...
In this study, which was carried out in the Karaburun-Ildır Bay Special Environmental Protected Area (SEPA) and adjacent waters, the diversity of marine macrofauna and the structure of demersal assemblages were investigated. The samplings were carried out in May 2022 and September 2022. A total of 179 species were identified (121 fish, 58 invertebrates). Penaeus pulchricaudatus, Bregmaceros nectabanus, Champsodon nudivittis, Callionymus filamentosus and Planiliza haematocheilus are non-indigenous species in the study area. Raja radula, Mustelus mustelus, Thunnus thynnus and Epinephelus marginatus are among the threatened fishes in the IUCN Red List. The analysis on demersal community showed that demersal assemblage of the shallow shelf was different from the assemblage of the upper slope and diversity is higher on the shallow shelf than on the upper slope. Species assemblages include commercial species such as Merluccius merluccius, Parapenaeus longirostris, and Mullus barbatus.
... The movement of lionfish into the Mediterranean Sea is considered to have most likely occurred via the Suez Canal, although their release from aquaria cannot be excluded (Al Mabruk and Rizgalla, 2019).The devil firefish P. miles was recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea at Haifa Bay in 1991 and later the devil firefish P. miles were reported from Lebanon coast and Cyprus coast and then sighted in Turkey, Rhodes in Greece (Golani and Sonin, 1992;Bariche et al., 2013;Turan et al., 2014;Crocetta et al., 2015;Özgül, 2020). The invasion of the species has spread from the southern coast of Turkey towards the Aegean Sea (Özgül, 2020;Turan and Öztürk, 2015;Yağlıoğlu and Ayas, 2016;Turan et al. 2017;Bilge et al. 2017;Yapıcı, 2018). It is also reported in Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy, Libya, and Croatia (Al Mabruk and Rizgalla, 2019;Jimenez et al., 2016;Dailianis et al., 2016;Azzurro et al., 2017;Dragičević et al., 2021). ...
... Lionfish inhabit warm marine waters at depths from 1 to 300 feet on hard bottom, mud bottoms, mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, and artificial reefs (Turan et al. 2017;Gürlek et al., 2016). It was reported that lionfish could be found at depths ranging from about 1 to 600 meters in Belizean waters (Searle et al., 2012). ...
... It was reported that lionfish could be found at depths ranging from about 1 to 600 meters in Belizean waters (Searle et al., 2012). P. miles and P. volitans were usually observed in rocky habitats in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea of Turkey (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al. 2017;Özgül, 2020). It has been reported that devil firefish disperse from shallow waters of less than 3 meters to depths of 100-110 meters on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Yağlıoğlu and Ayas, 2016;Taşkavak et al., 2021;NTV, 2022). ...
The study was carried out in the Mediterranean region of Turkey between 2018 and 2021. It was aimed to reveal lionfish awareness studies and lionfish venoming cases in Turkey in this study. The awareness studies were determined by institutional studies. Personal interviews, first aid agency notifications and literature were investigated to find lionfish venoming cases. Four awareness studies and seven lionfish venoming cases were detected. Pain, swelling, and redness were often the first symptoms in the venoming cases. The first application was immersion in hot water in three of the seven cases. No deaths were recorded in the cases. In Turkey, the awareness studies should continue with the derbies or tournaments and government-supported removal efforts must be made to reduce the population and stocks of invasive lionfish.
... Today, it is known that highest entered and settled alien species into theMediterranean Sea, most of which enter through the Suez Canal (Stamouli et al., 2017;Turan et al., 2018;Ergüden et al., 2019;Crocetta et al., 2021). Fertilized pelagic eggs and larvae of lionfish can spread by currents (Ahrenholz & Morris, 2010;Turan et al., 2017). Similarly, it can be predicted that the fertilized eggs and larvae of lionfish were transported to the Mediterranean by the current crossing the Suez Canal (Yağlıoğlu & Ayas 2016). ...
... Both species became increasingly common in the area (Dağhan & Demirhan 2020; Yılmaz & Demirhan 2020). According to Turan et al., (2017) these species may cause the reduction of populations of vanikoro sweeper (Pempheris spp.), cardinal fish (Apogon spp.) and red coat (Sargocentron rubrum). Similarly, it will also create predation pressure on the species (Mullus surmuletus and Gobiidae spp.) found in the stomach of lionfish in Antalya Bay (Özbek et al., 2017). ...
The food composition and dietary overlap of the Pterois volitans and P. miles were studied in the İskenderun Bay. The main prey groups found in the stomachs of the P. volitans and P. miles were fishes and crustaceans. The study has shown that the Niche overlap-Pianka's index of these species was 83,2%. Most of the stomach contents for both species were not identified. Fish and shirimps were found in the stomachs contents of both species freqently. However reef parts, moss residuals, molluscs shell parts and crab parts were found in the stomachs content for both species rarely. Chlorophthalmus agassizi, Uranoscopus scaber, Helicolenus dactylopterus, Serranidae, Sparidae and Scorpaenidae members have been identified as stomach contents of P. volitans. Similarly C. agassizi was identified in the stomach contents of P. miles. Conspicuously, juvenile lionfish and body parts of juvenile lionfishes (dorsal fin and spines) were found in 4 specimens stomachs of P. miles.
... Using the metric conceived by Dick et al. (2017b) and Laverty et al. (2017), and since developed by Dickey et al. (2020), we provide an illustration of the changes expected in the predatory impact of an invasive species under potential temperatures experienced along an invasion gradient (lionfish) and of two native predator-prey combinations under expected future temperatures (shanny and dogfish). It is possible to use the methods and results presented here to triage and horizon scan where species may exert further ecological impacts in the future, for example, through application to the burgeoning lionfish (both P. volitans and P. miles) invasion in the Mediterranean (Gürlek et al., 2016;Bariche et al., 2017;Turan et al., 2017). By adapting this metric to assess the intraspecific effects of climatic change rather than a specifically invader/native comparison, we provide a method to rapidly quantify ecological impacts of consumer species on prey populations, which can be applied to any trophic and taxonomic group under any relevant abiotic variable. ...
Predicting future changes in interspecific interactions continues to be a challenge for environmental managers. This uncertainty is exacerbated by increasing biological invasions and the likelihood that the strength of trophic interactions among native species will change. Abiotic variables influence predator resource utilisation and abundance as well as resource population dynamics. Currently no practical metric or impact prediction methodology can adequately account for all of these factors. Functional Response (FR) methods successfully incorporate resource utilisation rates with regards to resource density to quantify consumer-resource interactions under varying abiotic contexts. This approach has been extended to create the Relative Impact Potential (RIP) metric to compare invader vs native impact. However, this does not incorporate resource abundance dynamics, which clearly can also change with abiotic context. We propose a Resource Reproduction Qualifier (RRQ) be incorporated into the RIP metric, whereby RRQ is the reciprocal of the fraction or proportion to which reproduction (e.g. of prey species) changes under an environmental context. This modifies the RIP score to give a more informative RIP q value, which may be contextually increased or decreased. We empirically demonstrate the utility and benefits of including RRQ into impact potential predictions with an invasive species (the lionfish Pterois volitans) and two European native species (shanny fish Lipophyris pholis and lesser spotted dogfish Scy-liorhinus canicula) under different abiotic contexts. Despite high FR and abundance, lionfish impacts were reduced by increasing prey recruitment at higher temperatures, however, remained high impact overall. Shanny predatory impact increased with increasing temperature and was exacerbated by decreasing prey fecundity. Two population increase scenarios (50% and 80%) were assessed for lesser spotted dogfish under predicted temperature increases, preying upon E. marinus. Both scenarios indicated heightened predatory impact with increasing predator FR and decreasing prey fecundity. Our new metric demonstrates that accounting for resource reproductive responses to abiotic drivers, in tandem with the consumer per capita and abundance responses, better estimate the magnitudes of predicted inter-species interactions and ecological impacts. This can be used in stock assessments and predictions, as well as invasive species risk assessments in a comprehensive yet user-friendly manner..
... Pterois miles is widely distributed in Indian Ocean, Red Sea, Atlantic Ocean (Froese and Pauly, 2022) and it is one of the most recent Lessepsian fish invader in the Mediterranean Sea. For that reason, information regarding its distribution, biology, ecology, habitat and feeding habits in the Mediterranean Sea have been researched (Turan et al., 2017;Zannaki et al., 2019;Savva et al., 2020). ...
... Its introduction to the Turkish coastal waters was reported in 2014 (Turan et al., 2014). Since then, their distribution has been spread and their population has been increased rapidly (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al., 2017;Hüseyinoglu et al., 2021). ...
... Pterois miles is mesopredator and feed on wide range of vertebrate and invertebrate animals (Peake et al., 2018). In turn, they were consumed by top predators like grouper species (Turan et al., 2017). Considering high MPs occurrence frequency and abundance observed in this study, MPs transfer among these species is a high possibility. ...
Nowadays, the majority of marine debris consists of microplastic particles. For that reason, microplastic pollution in marine environments and its potential impacts on marine animals has been extensively studied. This study was developed to investigate the bioindicator potential of Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) for the monitoring of microplastic pollution. A totally, 21 individuals were sampled from Iskenderun Bay, northeastern Mediterranean Sea on April 2022, and their gastrointestinal tracts were examined for microplastic occurrence. Mean microplastic abundance was found as 2.06±1.88 particles/individual in positive samples and 1.47±1.83 particles/individual in total samples. The microplastic detection rate was estimated as 71%. In terms of color, black (55%), blue (32%), red (10%) and brown (3%) microplastic particles were detected. Among all, the majority of the extracted particles were fiber in shape (93%) and followed by fragments (7%). The high frequency of detection and microplastic abundance estimated in this study showed that this specie could be used to monitor microplastic pollution in marine environments.
... Invasiveness of the species for Turkish seas has emphasized in comprehensive studies (Filiz et al., 2017;Tarkan et al., 2021;Vilizzi et al., 2021). Several papers reported a westerly migration of the species from the Southern coast of Turkey (Bilge et al., 2016;Yağlıoğlu and Ayaş, 2016;Turan et al., 2017;Özgül, 2020) and first occurrence reports for the Aegean Sea were from Fethiye Bay and Dalyan coast in 2015 (Turan and Öztürk, 2015). Distribution of the species along the Aegean Sea has expanded towards the northeast and the northernmost presence of the species was reported from Kokar Bay-İzmir (Özgül, 2020). ...
... High abundance of damselfish in the sampling area may indicate the feeding habit of devil firefish. On the other hand, invasive Pterois species were also reported to be preys of dusky grouper (Ephinephelus marginatus) and goldblotch grouper (Ephinephelus costae) (Turan et al., 2017). The absence of predators (mainly due to over exploitation) that consume devil firefish may also be effective in reaching large size and wide range distribution. ...
Present work reports the maximum size record of Pterois miles for Turkish Seas with some additional biological information. The greatest individual of P. miles was caught off Çökertme Bight, Bodrum (Southern Aegean Sea) at 10 m depth with a spear gun on 15 July 2021. Captured individual of devil firefish was 34.0 cm in total length and 707.55 g in total weight. Specimen was male with a gonad weight of 13.6 g and it was determined to be 6 years old. A prey fish Chromis chromis were detected in the stomach in definable visible condition. Total length and weight of the mentioned individual are the greatest for the Turkish Seas among the reported studies up to date.
... The movement of lionfish into the Mediterranean Sea is considered to have most likely occurred via the Suez Canal, although their release from aquaria cannot be excluded (Al Mabruk and Rizgalla, 2019).The devil firefish P. miles was recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea at Haifa Bay in 1991 and later the devil firefish P. miles were reported from Lebanon coast and Cyprus coast and then sighted in Turkey, Rhodes in Greece (Golani and Sonin, 1992;Bariche et al., 2013;Turan et al., 2014;Crocetta et al., 2015;Özgül, 2020). The invasion of the species has spread from the southern coast of Turkey towards the Aegean Sea (Özgül, 2020;Turan and Öztürk, 2015;Yağlıoğlu and Ayas, 2016;Turan et al. 2017;Bilge et al. 2017;Yapıcı, 2018). It is also reported in Cyprus, Greece, Lebanon, Tunisia, Italy, Libya, and Croatia (Al Mabruk and Rizgalla, 2019;Jimenez et al., 2016;Dailianis et al., 2016;Azzurro et al., 2017;Dragičević et al., 2021). ...
... Lionfish inhabit warm marine waters at depths from 1 to 300 feet on hard bottom, mud bottoms, mangroves, seagrasses, coral reefs, and artificial reefs (Turan et al. 2017;Gürlek et al., 2016). It was reported that lionfish could be found at depths ranging from about 1 to 600 meters in Belizean waters (Searle et al., 2012). ...
... It was reported that lionfish could be found at depths ranging from about 1 to 600 meters in Belizean waters (Searle et al., 2012). P. miles and P. volitans were usually observed in rocky habitats in the Mediterranean and Aegean Sea of Turkey (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al. 2017;Özgül, 2020). It has been reported that devil firefish disperse from shallow waters of less than 3 meters to depths of 100-110 meters on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Yağlıoğlu and Ayas, 2016;Taşkavak et al., 2021;NTV, 2022). ...
The study was carried out in the Mediterranean region of Turkey between the years 2018-2021. In this study, it was aimed to reveal the awareness studies to combat lionfish and lionfish venoming cases in Turkey. The awareness studies were determined by institutional studies. Personal interviews, first aid agency notifications and literature were investigated to find lionfish venoming cases. The four awareness studies were found. The seven lionfish venoming cases were detected. Pain, swelling, and redness were often the first symptoms. The three of the seven cases were immersed in hot water. No fatality was. The awareness studies with the derbies or tournaments have to continue in Turkey. Government-supported removal efforts must be made to reduce the population and stocks of invasive lionfish.
... Biological invasions threaten marine environments as they can harm native species at all trophic levels (Savva et al., 2020). The invasion and settlement of alien species is a major threat to marine biodiversity, structure and function, with economic and human health implications (Otero et al., 2013;Turan et al., 2017). The introduction of P. miles into the Mediterranean has posed a potential threat to the native species (Ayas et al., 2018). ...
... The high feeding rates of lionfish pose a serious threat to its benthic ecosystems (Kulbicki et al., 2012;Turan et al., 2017). Lionfishes are predator species (Ayas et al., 2018). ...
... In our study, the total lengths and the total weights of P. miles specimens were found to be between 13. Mumby et al., 2011;Bariche et al., 2013;Turan et al., 2017). Additionally, predation by large carnivores such as groupers and sharks was also stated to represent one of the best controls for invasive devil firefish (Bernadsky & Goulet, 1991;Muñoz et al., 2011). ...
... The invasion of lionfish has still been confused for the Mediterranean Sea due to some published reports in the scientific journals. As an example, although some authors (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al., 2017;, Ayas et al., 2018 previously identified the lionfish in the Mediterranean Sea coastline of Turkey as P.volitans, according to the recent papers by Ulman et al. (2020) and Cinar et al. (2021), the lionfish off the Turkish coastline is defined as P. miles. The reason of the confusion is based on the misinterpretation of the samples due to i) morphological properties cannot be enough to distinguish P.volitans and P.miles, ii) correct bio-sequences should be selected to identify correct taxon in the genetic studies (Ulman et al., 2020;Cinar et al., 2021, Kovačić et al., 2021. ...
... Lionfish invasion and its social effects from the eyes of a local fisherman in Turkey are described in the recent novel of Zülfü Livaneli (Livaneli, 2021). The current situation of P.volitans in Turkey is also complicated due to previously published and confused papers where the lionfish is defined as P.volitans (Gürlek et al., 2016;Turan et al., 2017;, Ayas et al., 2018, on the other hand, recent papers underline that the lionfish in Turkish coastlines is P.miles (Ulman et al., 2020;Çinar et al., 2021). Bioactive peptides are obtained via wet lab studies. ...
Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758), native of the Indo-Pacific Ocean, is an invasive fish species in the Western-Atlantic. Due to the very long venomous spines, they increase their populations in newly invaded habitats. No validated eradication method has been existed for this species yet. Therefore, there is an urgent need for alternative utilization methods for this fish species. Bioactive peptides are of great importance for human health since they exhibit excellent inhibitory properties for some medicinally important enzymes in human metabolisms such as angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) and dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV). In this study, the bioactive peptides in protein-based venom of P. volitans, Pvtoxin-a and Pvtoxin-b, were investigated by using in silico tools. Total number of negatively charged residues (Asp + Glu) for Pvtoxin-a and Pvtoxin-b were found as 21 and 18, respectively. Total number of positively charged residues (Arg + Lys) for Pvtoxin-a and Pvtoxin-b were observed to be 22 and 24, respectively. According to BIOPEP results, AE values for ACE and DPP-IV were found to be 0.0305 and 0.0666 for Pvtoxin-a and Pvtoxin-b as 0.0333 and 0.0569, respectively. It is very interesting to note that AE values related to antioxidant property were observed to be 0.0083 for both Pvtoxin-a and Pvtoxin-b. Although AE value for alpha-glucosidase inhibitor was found to be 0.0014 for Pvtoxin-a, no AE value was obtained for Pvtoxin-b. In conclusion, the BIOPEP results clearly show that after a possible eradication study, protein-based venoms from P. volitans can be evaluated in the production of bioactive peptides. A possible economical value may create a pressure on its increasing population in newly invaded areas.
