Gaziantep İli Sınırları İçindeki Fırat ve Asi Havzası Akarsuları Balık Faunası

Abstract

This study was carried out from January to December 2008 in order to determine the freshwater fish fauna of Gaziantep. A total of 36 fish
species were determined belonging to 9 families in Gaziantep water bodies linked with Euphrates and Orontis rivers basins. As a result, it can be
claim Gaziantep has a rich species diversity for the freshwater fish fauna. Reason of rich species diversity can be explain by Gaziantep freshwater
affected by both Orontis and Euphraticus river basin.