TURKISH JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, vol.37, no.4, pp.523-524, 2013 (Journal Indexed in SCI)
One female specimen of Serranus hepatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Perciformes, Serranidae) was captured off the Black Sea coast of Turkey by bottom trawl at a depth of 80-90 m on 23 March 2012. This is the first record of this species for the Black Sea.