New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2018)

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Published: Jul 31, 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.18099
NIKI CHARTOSIA
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 Panepistimiou Str., 2109 Aglantzia, Nicosia
DIMITRIS ANASTASIADIS
Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athens Sounio, GR19013, Anavyssos, Attiki
HOCEIN BAZAIRI
BioBio Research Center, Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V in Rabat, 4 Avenue Ibn Battouta, B.P. 1014 RP, Rabat
FABIO CROCETTA
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Naples
ALAN DEIDUN
Department of Geosciences, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080
MARIJA DESPALATOVIĆ
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 63, 21000 Split
VINCENZO DI MARTINO
Institute for Agricultural and Forestry System, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), via Empedocle, 58, 95125
NIKOS DIMITRIOU
Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athens Sounio, GR19013, Anavyssos, Attiki
BRANKO DRAGIČEVIĆ
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 63, 21000 Split
JAKOV DULČIĆ
Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Šetalište Ivana Meštrovića 63, 21000 Split
FURKAN DURUCAN
Işıklar Caddesi No 16,17 TR-07100 Antalya
DENIZ HASBEK
Directorate of Provincial Food Agriculture and Livestock, Hatay
VLASIOS KETSILIS-RINIS
Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athens Sounio, GR19013, Anavyssos, Attiki
PERIKLIS KLEITOU
Marine and Environmental Research (MER) Lab Ltd., 202 Amathountos Av., Marina Gardens, Block B, Offices #13-14, Parekklisia, Limassol
LOVRENC LIPEJ
Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, Piran, SI-6330
ARMANDO MACALI
Department of Ecological and Biological Sciences, Tuscia University, Ichthyogenic Experimental Marine Centre (CISMAR), Tarquinia (VT)
AGNESE MARCHINI
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Pavia
MARIAM OUSSELAM
Institut National de Recherche Halieutique, Centre Régional de Nador, 13 Bd Zerktouni. BP 493, Nador
STEFANO PIRAINO
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento-73100 Lecce
BESSY STANCANELLI
Aqua Stories; via Vampolieri, 25/31 int. 27, 95022 Aci Catena, Catania
MARILENA THEODOSIOU
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 Panepistimiou Str., 2109 Aglantzia, Nicosia
FRANCESCO TIRALONGO
Ente Fauna Marina Mediterranea, Avola, Siracusa
VALENTINA TODOROVA
Institute of Oceanology, Varna, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 152, 9000 Varna
DOMEN TRKOV
Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, Piran, SI-6330
SERCAN YAPICI
Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000, Kötekli, Muğla
Abstract

In the present article, new records are given for 15 species (4 native and 9 alien and 2 cryptogenic), belonging to 6 Phyla (i.e. Chlorophyta, Ctenophora, Cnidaria, Mollusca, Arthropoda, and Chordata), from 10 Mediterranean countries: Morocco: the finding of the crab Callinectes sapidus represents the westernmost one of the species in the Mediterranean; Italy: first records of the nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi from the harbour of La Spezia, and first finding of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Fiora River; Tunisia: Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla is recorded for the first time, showing an even wider distribution in the Mediterranean; Greece: the finding of the jellyfish Pelagia benovici represents the first record of the species in the Ionian Sea, while the finding of the smallscale codlet Bregmaceros nectabanus in the Ionian Sea is another interesting first report for the area; Malta: the cryptogenic scleractinian coral Oculina patagonica was recorded; Slovenia: the parasitic copepod Demoleus heptapus was recorded from a sixgill bluntnose shark, Hexanchus griseus; Croatia: the Lessepsian cephalaspidean mollusc Haminoea cyanomarginata is recorded for the first time from the area; Bulgaria: the Asian date mussel Arcuatula senhousia was recorded from the Black Sea; Cyprus: the Lessepsian gastropod Viriola sp. [cf. corrugata) was recorded for the first time from the area, while two decapod species were recorded also for the first time from Cyprus, i.e. the caridean shrimp Pasiphaea sivado and the anomuran Munida curvimana; Turkey: the acari Lohmannella falcata is recorded for the first time from Antalya and the Lessepsian fish Priacanthus sagittarius in the Levantine coasts of Turkey (off Hatay/Arsuz) showing that this species has extended its range in a very short time.

 

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