Open AccessNew Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (November, 2016)
Author(s) -
Chryssi Mytilineou,
El Sayed Haroun Khamis Akel,
N. Babali,
Paolo Balistreri,
Michel Bariche,
Yunus Ömer Boyacı,
Lucrezia Cilenti,
Christos E. Constantinou,
Fabio Crocetta,
Murat Çelik,
Hakkı Dereli̇,
C. Dounas,
Furkan Durucan,
Araceli Garrido,
Vasilis Gerovasileiou,
Kostas Kapiris,
Turhan Kebapçıoğlu,
Periklis Kleitou,
A. Krystalas,
Lovrenc Lipej,
Ίριδα Μάινα,
Philippos Marakis,
Borut Mavrič,
Ragia Moussa Moussa,
Luis Peña-Rivas,
Dimitris Poursanidis,
Walter Renda,
Samir Ibrahim Rizkalla,
Antonietta Rosso,
Tommaso Scirocco,
Francesco Sciuto,
Gianna Servello,
Francesco Tiralongo,
Sercan Yapıcı,
Argyro Zenetos
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
mediterranean marine science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.734
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1791-6763
pISSN - 1108-393X
DOI - 10.12681/mms.1976
Subject(s) - alien , mediterranean sea , geography , fishery , mediterranean climate , ecology , biology , population , demography , sociology , census
In the present Collective Article information on 26 taxa belonging to 8 Phyla and extended from the western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea are presented. The new records were found in 9 countries as follows: Spain: first record for the Mediterranean of the crab Cancer bellianus; Algeria: further records of the alien fish Lagocephalus sceleratus to the west Algerian waters; Italy: first report on the presence and establishment of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Lessina and Varano Lagoons (W. Adriatic) and of Penaeus aztecus in Corigliano Gulf (Italian Ionian). Moreover, the extension of the distribution range of the polychaete Branchiomma bairdi to W. Sicily as well as that of the crab Ocypode cursor and the bryozoan Catenicella paradoxa to E. Sicily are cited. Slovenia: the record of the rare saccoglossan gastropod Placida cremoniana from Piran (Gulf of Trieste) is the first for the Adriatic; Greece: the native sea slug Eubranchus farrani is the first from the Eastern Mediterranean; many sightings of the bamboo corals Isididae distributed along all the E. Ionian Sea and the establishment of P. aztecus in all Greek waters are also reported for first time; the westernmost extension of the alien urchin Diadema setosum in Cretan waters is cited and new sights of the alien species Goniobranchus annulatus and Pterois miles are shown. Turkey: the alien fish Champsodon capensis is reported for first time from the Aegean Sea and the native acari Agauopsis microrhyncha from the Levantine Sea; a new observation of the alien crab Atergatis roseus in Güllük Bay-Aegean is also mentioned; Cyprus: first records of the alien urchin D. setosum and Lobotes surinamensis in Cypriot waters; Lebanon: several sightings of Monachus monachus from the Lebanese waters indicate a potential better status of the species in the area, Egypt: first records of the alien crab Dorippe quadridens and the alien gastropods Nerita sanguinolenta and Conomurex persicus from the Mediterranean Egyptian waters; extension of the distribution range of Diodora funiculata and Diodora rueppellii and a second record of the alien Nerita sanguinolenta in the same area.