Retraction Note: “4.4 First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea” by Athanasios Anastasiadis, Evangelos Papadimitriou and Frithjof C. Küpper in: Kousteni, V. et al. (2022). New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022). Mediterranean Marine Science, 23 (3), 417-446, doi: 10.12681/mms.28372 and Reply to Comment on “First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea” by Jürgen Pollerspöck, Simon Weigmann, Bernard Seret and Nicolas Straube. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24 (1), 101-103, doi: http://doi.org/10.12681/mms.32478

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Published: Mar 22, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34033
ATHANASIOS ANASTASIADIS
Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, University of Patras, 30200 Mesolongi, Greece
EVANGELOS PAPADIMITRIOU
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK & University of the Aegean, University Hill, 81100 Mytilene, Greece
FRITHJOF C. KÜPPER
School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK & Marine Biodiscovery Centre, Department of Chemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, UK
Abstract

The above authors remove these recent publications due to remaining uncertainty because they are based on a visual observation by a citizen (citizen science), without a specimen being available. The available information was not adequate to support this record based solely on photographic evidence and direct contact between the authors and the citizen.

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  • ANASTASIADIS, A., PAPADIMITRIOU, E., & KÜPPER, F. C. (2023). Retraction Note: “4.4 First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea” by Athanasios Anastasiadis, Evangelos Papadimitriou and Frithjof C. Küpper in: Kousteni, V. et al. (2022). New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022). Mediterranean Marine Science, 23 (3), 417-446, doi: 10.12681/mms.28372 and Reply to Comment on “First record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni Jordan, 1898 (Lamniformes: Mitsukurinidae) in the Mediterranean Sea” by Jürgen Pollerspöck, Simon Weigmann, Bernard Seret and Nicolas Straube. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24 (1), 101-103, doi: http://doi.org/10.12681/mms.32478. Mediterranean Marine Science, 24(1), 173–173. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.34033
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