Syngnathus variegatus Pallas, 1811

Iftime, Alexandru & Oţel, Vasile, 2025, An annotated systematical checklist of the Romanian ichthyofauna, Zootaxa 5654 (1), pp. 1-64 : 29

Syngnathus variegatus Pallas, 1811

A native marine species, formerly found along all Romanian Black Sea waters ( Bănărescu 1964); nowadays only along the southern waters (Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Yankova et al. 2014; Țoțoiu et al. 2018; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Niță et al. 2022).

ORD. SCOMBRIFORMES

Fam. Pomatomidae

Pomatomus saltatrix (Linnaeus, 1758)

A native marine species, found along most of the Romanian Black Sea waters, except for the Danube mouths area ( Bănărescu 1964; Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Yankova et al. 2014; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Maximov et al., 2019; Niță et al. 2022).

Fam. Scombridae

Sarda sarda (Bloch, 1793)

A native, marine species, formerly found along all Romanian coast ( Bănărescu 1964), but the migrating stock has limited itself to southern (Turkish and Bulgarian) Black Sea waters since the 1970s; gradually, after 2000, the species has reappared in Romanian waters (Oțel 2007; Vasil’eva 2007; Yankova et al. 2014; Yankova, 2015; Țoțoiu et al. 2018; Cocan & MireȘan 2018; Niță et al. 2022), but after a partial recovery is now again on the decrease because of pollution in the NW Black Sea , dense shipping traffic and overfishing ( Rădulescu 2023).