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On July 11, 2024, a single juvenile specimen of the little gulper shark Centrophorus uyato(Rafinesque, 1810) was caught by a commercial trawler off the coast of Silifke in the Gulf of Mersin (Northeastern Mediterranean Sea, Turkey) at a depth of about 568 m. All measurements, counts, and color descriptions of C. uyatoagree with previous descriptions. This juvenile record is the first evidence of C. uyatoreported from the Gulf of Mersin (Northeastern Mediterranean Sea). This study also contributes to a better understanding of the distribution of small-sized deep-sea shark species.

Two specimens of slender sunfish R. laeviswere recorded from two locations in İskenderun Bay at depths between 0 and 24 m. The first specimen, a female, was collected via purse seine net during a benthic survey carried out in Iskenderun coast on April 2016, and the other specimen, a male, was caught at the sea surface by gill net from the Payas coast on May 2018. The fishes were 565 mm and 375 mm in total length (TL) and 4450 g and 1750 g total weight (TW), respectively. Morphometric measurements and meristic counts of the fishes are detailed and presented in this paper. This is the first substantiated confirmation of Ranzania laevisfrom the Northeastern Mediterranean Sea.