New records of introduced species in the Mediterranean Sea (April 2023)

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Published: Apr 7, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34016
ANA FORTIČ
Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, SI- 6330 Piran, Slovenia
REEM AL-SHEIKH RASHEED
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
ZOUHAIR ALMAJID
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
ALI BADREDDINE
Tyre Coast Nature Reserve-Department of Biology-Tyre-South Lebanon
JOSÉ CARLOS BÁEZ
Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), CSIC. Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga, puerto pesquero s/n Fuengirola, 29640, Fuengirola, Spain & Instituto Iberoamericano de Desarrollo Sostenible (IIDS), Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Av. Alemania 1090. Temuco 4810101, Región de la Araucanía, Chile
ANGEL BELMONTE-GALLEGOS
Estación Experimental de Zonas Aridas (EEZA), CSIC. Finca Experimental La Hoya, Almería, Spain
NICOLA BETTOSO
Agency for Environmental Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, 34139 Trieste, Italy
DIEGO BORME
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics-OGS, 34010 Trieste, Italy
FEDERICA CAMISA
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics-OGS, 34010 Trieste, Italy
DANIELA CARACCIOLO
ARPAL - Agenzia Regionale Protezione Ambiente Ligure Via Bombrini, 8 - 16149 Genova, Italy
MELIH ERTAN ÇINAR
Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, 35100 Bornova, İzmir, Türkiye
FABIO CROCETTA
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples, Italy
ILIJA ĆETKOVIĆ
University of Montenegro, Institute of Marine Biology, Put I Bokeljske brigade 68, 85 330 Kotor, Montenegro
ALPER DOĞAN
Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, 35100 Bornova, İzmir, Türkiye
MOHAMAD GALIYA
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
ÁLVARO GARCÍA DE LOS RÍOS Y LOS HUERTOS
Centro de Estudios y conservación de Animales marinos de Ceuta (CECAM), Muelle Alfau S/N, 51001 Ceuta, Spain
DANIELE GRECH
IMC - International Marine Centre, Loc. Sa Mardini, Torregrande - 09170 Oristano, Italy
JAVIER GUALLART
Laboratorio de Biología Marina, departamento de Zoología, Universitat de València, 46100 Burjassot (Valencia), Spain
GIZEM GÜNDEĞER
Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, 35100 Bornova, İzmir, Türkiye
ADLA KAHRIĆ
Center for marine and freshwater biology Sharklab ADRIA, Paromlinska 16, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
PARASKEVI K. KARACHLE
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 46.7 km Athens Sounio ave., P.O. Box 712, 19013 Anavyssos Attiki, Greece
DEJAN KULIJER
National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Zmaja od Bosne 3, 71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
ANTONI LOMBARTE
Institut de Ciències del Mar CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-48, 08003 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
OLIVERA MARKOVIĆ
University of Montenegro, Institute of Marine Biology, Put I Bokeljske brigade 68, 85 330 Kotor, Montenegro
ELSA MARTÍNEZ JIMÉNEZ
Theanous 6,11854, Athens, Greece
EMINE SUKRAN OKUDAN
Akdeniz University, Faculty of Fisheries, Antalya, Türkiye
MARTINA ORLANDO-BONACA
Marine Biology Station Piran, National Institute of Biology, Fornače 41, SI- 6330 Piran, Slovenia
STÉPHANE SARTORETTO
Ifremer, LITTORAL, F-83500 La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
ANDREA SPINELLI
Research Department, Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Oceanogràfic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, 46013, Valencia, Spain
INCI TUNEY KIZILKAYA
Ege University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Izmir, Türkiye
RICCARDO VIRGILI
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples, Italy
Abstract

This Collective article reports 17 introduced species and 22 new locations for these species in the Mediterranean Sea. The reports are from three different Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) subregions (Aegean-Levantine Sea, Adriatic Sea and Western Mediterranean Sea) and the Sea of Marmara and cover ten different countries. The goal of consistent and detailed reporting of introduced species is to complement the existing species inventories and serve as a basis for establishing monitoring strategies and other conservation measures. Some of the reports from this article are the first species records for the Mediterranean Sea, namely the green alga Udotea flabellum from the Aegean Sea (Turkey) and the deepbody boarfish Antigonia capros from the Balearic Sea (Spain). In addition, new records of introduced species are included for different seas, namely the moon crab Matuta victor for the Aegean Sea (Greece), the whale shark Rhincodon typus and the lionfish Pterois miles for the Alboran Sea (Spain), the almaco jack Seriola rivoliana for the Tyrrhenian Sea (Italy), and the hound needlefish Tylosurus crocodilus for the Adriatic Sea (Italy). Furthermore, reports on first country records are included: the red alga Colaconema codicola from Slovenia, the nudibranch Melibe viridis from Bosnia and Herzegovina, the lionfish Pterois miles from Montenegro, and the goldstripe sardinella Sardinella gibbosa from Syria, which also represents a second record for the Mediterranean Sea. Furthermore, the occurrence of the scleractinian coral Oculina patagonica was noted in Gulf of Lion (France). Four polychaete species, namely Leodice antennata, Timarete punctata and Branchiomma bairdi, are reported from the vermetid reef habitat and two of them (L. antennata and B. bairdi) are also recorded for the first time in Lebanon. Evidence for established populations of the Asian date mussel Arcuatula senhousia in the Sea of Marmara (Turkey) and the rayed pearl oyster Pinctada radiata around the island of Sardinia (Italy) is provided.

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  • FORTIČ, A., AL-SHEIKH RASHEED, R., ALMAJID, Z., BADREDDINE, A., BÁEZ, J. C., BELMONTE-GALLEGOS, A., BETTOSO, N., BORME, D., CAMISA, F., CARACCIOLO, D., ÇINAR, M. E., CROCETTA, F., ĆETKOVIĆ, I., DOĞAN, A., GALIYA, M., GARCÍA DE LOS RÍOS Y LOS HUERTOS, ÁLVARO, GRECH, D., GUALLART, J., GÜNDEĞER, G., KAHRIĆ, A., KARACHLE, P. K., KULIJER, D., LOMBARTE, A., MARKOVIĆ, O., MARTÍNEZ JIMÉNEZ, E., SUKRAN OKUDAN, E., ORLANDO-BONACA, M., SARTORETTO, S., SPINELLI, A., TUNEY KIZILKAYA, I., & VIRGILI, R. (2023). New records of introduced species in the Mediterranean Sea (April 2023). Mediterranean Marine Science, 24(1), 182–202. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34016
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