Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 31-32

Trachurus trachurus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A marine species, native to the Black Sea , but only accidentally found in Romanian waters ( Bănărescu 1964; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Cocan & MireȘan 2018).

Subfam. Trachinotinae

Trachinotus ovatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

A vagrant marine species occasionally found in Romanian Black Sea waters (Marcoci, V., 2023 via Ichthyology of Romania Facebook group; Iftime & Oțel id.; Fig. 8 ). This species was previously recorded in the Bosporus close to the Black Sea , its northward expansion being then considered possible ( Bilecenoğlu & Öztürk 2019), and then it was found in the Black Sea off Türkiye ( Uzer et al. 2024) and Bulgaria ( Stefanov 2024).

ORD. ATHERINIFORMES

Fam. Atherinidae

Subfam. Atherininae

Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810

A native marine/euryhaline species, found along all Romanian Black Sea waters, in the Razim lagoon complex and in some littoral lakes ( Bănărescu 1964 [as Atherina mochon pontica ]; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Radu et al. 2008; Yankova et al. 2014 [as Atherina pontica ]; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Năstase et al. 2022; Niță et al. 2022).

Figures

FIGURE 8. Trachinotus ovatus, subadult, photographed underwater at Constanța, Black Sea, 2023, photo Valentin Marcoci (used here with permission).