First record of two deep-water fish, Bellottia apoda and Symphurus ligulatus in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea

(Levant Basin) is quite low, particularly considering the deep-water species (Coll et al., 2010). In this note we report the capture of two deep-sea species - Bellottia apoda Giglioli, 1883 and Symphurus ligulatus (Cocco, 1844) - which constitute new records in the Turkish Mediterranean Sea. One specimen of each species was collected during deep-water trawl surveys recently carried out in the Bay of Antalya (Turkey) (Fig. 1). Trawling was carried out by the R/V "Akdeniz Su". The specimens are deposited in the Akdeniz University Ichthyological Collection (AKU).