New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2020)

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Published: Jul 1, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.22148
VASILIS GEROVASILEIOU
Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece
OKAN AKYOL
Ege University Faculty of Fisheries, 35440 Urla, Izmir, Turkey
ZINAH AL-HOSNE
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syrian Arab Republic
REEM ALSHIKH RASHEED
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia
EYLUL ATAÇ
Ege University Faculty of Fisheries, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
GIAMBATISTA BELLO
Arion, Via Colombo 34, 70042, Mola di Bari, Italy
ILIJA ĆETKOVIĆ
Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Dobrota bb, P Fah 69, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro
MARIA CORSINI-FOKA
Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Cos Street,85100, Rhodes, Greece
FABIO CROCETTA
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121 Naples, Italy
FRANCESCO DENITTO
Hydracoop, Istituto di Ricerca per la Pesca e l’Acquacoltura, Viale Ugo Foscolo 30, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
PAOLO GUIDETTI
ECOSEAS Lab. UMR 7035, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Parc Valrose 28, Avenue Valrose, 06108 Nice, France
BENAL GÜL
Department of Fisheries and Seafood Processing Technology, Faculty of Aquatic Science, Istanbul University, Ordu Cad No 8 Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey
GIANNI INSACCO
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, via degli Studi 9, 97013 Comiso (RG), Italy
CARLOS JIMENEZ
Enalia Physis Environmental Research Centre, Cyprus
CATALDO LICCHELLI
Hydracoop, Istituto di Ricerca per la Pesca e l’Acquacoltura, Viale Ugo Foscolo 30, I-73100 Lecce, Italy
LOVRENC LIPEJ
Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Fornače 41, 6330 Piran, Slovenia
ANDREA LOMBARDO
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy
EMANUELE MANCINI
Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology, University of Tuscia, Civitavecc, Italy
GIULIANA MARLETTA
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Ttaly
NIKOLAS MICHAILIDIS
Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, 101 Vithleem Str., 1416 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus
ANA PEŠIĆ
Institute of Marine Biology, University of Montenegro, Dobrota bb, P Fah 69, 85330 Kotor, Montenegro
DIMITRIS POURSANIDIS
Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, 70013 Heraklion, Greece
WAHID REFES
Laboratoire de recherche ‘Ecosystèmes marin et littoral-Equipe: Biodiversité et gestion des écosystèmes exploités’, Ecole National Supérieure des Sciences de la Mer et de l’Aménagement du Littoral, Campus universitaire de Dély Ibrahim -BP 19 Bois des Cars-Dély Ibrahim, Algiers, Algeria
HAMZA SAHRAOUI
Laboratoire de recherche ‘Ecosystèmes marin et littoral-Equipe: Biodiversité et gestion des écosystèmes exploités’, Ecole National Supérieure des Sciences de la Mer et de l’Aménagement du Littoral, Campus universitaire de Dély Ibrahim -BP 19 Bois des Cars-Dély Ibrahim, Algiers, Algeria
IOANNIS THASITIS
Department of Fisheries and Marine Research, 101 Vithleem Str., 1416 Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus
FRANCESCO TIRALONGO
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy
ZAFER TOSUNOĞLU
Ege University Faculty of Fisheries, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-9611
DOMEN TRKOV
Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Fornače 41, 6330 Piran Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Jamova cesta 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
ANGLEO VAZZANA
Via Str. prima Giuffrè 32, 89122 Reggio Calabria, Italy
BRUNO ZAVA
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, via degli Studi 9, 97013 Comiso (RG), Italy Wilderness studi ambientali, via Cruillas 27, 90146 Palermo, Italy
Abstract

This Collective Article presents information about 17 taxa belonging to four Phyla (one Cnidaria, two Arthropoda, four Mollusca, and ten Chordata) and extending from the Western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. The new records were reported from nine countries as follows: Algeria: first published records of the clingfishes Apletodon dentatus and Lepadogaster lepadogaster after 1955; France: first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in French Mediterranean waters; Italy: new records of the rare bonito Orcynopsis unicolor and the recently described nudibranch Elysia rubeni from Sicily; first records of the parasitic cirriped Sacculina eriphiae and the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Ionian Sea; first record of the nudibranch Taringa tritorquis in the Mediterranean Sea; first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in the North Ionian Sea; first documented record of the cephalopod Macrotritopus defilippi in the Adriatic Sea; Slovenia: first record of the Mediterranean endemic cryptobenthic goby Odondebuenia balearica; Montenegro: several recent occurrences of the critically endangered bull ray Aetomylaeus bovinus in the South-eastern Adriatic Sea; Greece: records of the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea; new record of the occurrence of the Mediterranean spearfish Tetrapturus belone from Greece (Rhodes Island); Turkey: recent captures of the vulnerable ocean sunfish Mola mola, caught by purse-seine, in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles; new record of the luvar Luvarus imperialis along the Aegean coast of Turkey; Cyprus: first record of the habitat-forming hydroid Lytocarpia myriophyllum, often in considerable densities; first confirmed record of the agujon needlefish Tylosurus imperialis; Syria: first record of the decapod Ethusa mascarone.

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