As a result of studies conducted by Prof. Dr. Fahrettin KÜÇÜK and Research Assistant Salim Serkan GÜÇLÜ from the Faculty of Fisheries at Isparta University of Applied Sciences, Prof. Dr. Davut TURAN from the Faculty of Fisheries at Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Gül MUTLU from Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yılmaz ÇİFTÇİ from the Faculty of Marine Sciences at Ordu University; a new species of carp, previously unknown to the world scientific literature, has been discovered in the Büyük Menderes River (Çine-Aydın). An article about the new species has been published in the journal "Zoology in the Middle East" (Germany).
The new carp species, identified by the research team, has been named "Chondrostoma turnai" in memory of Dr. İbrahim İsmail TURNA, a faculty member of our faculty. The genus, which is distributed in the middle and lower basin of the Büyük Menderes River, has 14 species in our country's inland waters, including the described species.
