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

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Published: Nov 24, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.35840
JOACHIM LANGENECK
Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare (CoNISMa), U.L.R. di Lecce, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
RIGERS BAKIU
Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, Faculty of Agriculture and Environment, Agricultural University of Tirana, Koder-Kamez, Albania & Albanian Center for Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development, Tirane, Albania
NIKOLETTA CHALARI
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (IMBRIW), 46,7 km Athinon-Souniou, Greee
GEORGIOS CHATZIGEORGIOU
Institute of Marine Biology Biotechnology and Aquacultures, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
FABIO CROCETTA
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples, Italy
SERVET AHMET DOĞDU
Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetic Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, Marine Science and Technology Faculty, Iskenderun Technical University, TR 31220, Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye & Iskenderun Technical University, Maritime Vocational School of Higher Education, Underwater Technologies, TR 31220, Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye
SHERIF DURMISHAJ
Qendra e Peshkimit Oriku, Radhime, Vlore, Albania
BELLA S. GALIL
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
JOSÉ ANTONIO GARCÍA-CHARTON
Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
ANIL GÜLŞAHIN
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Fisheries, Kötekli, Muğla, Türkiye
RAZY HOFFMAN
The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
AGOSTINO LEONE
NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy & Department of Earth and Marine Sciences (DiSTeM), University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
MARCO LEZZI
Struttura Oceanografica Daphne, ARPAE Emilia Romagna, Cesenatico (FC), Italy
ALESSIA LOGRIECO
Department of Bioscience, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, Bari, Italy
EMANUELE MANCINI
NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy & Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
ERSIN MINARECI
Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Yunusemre, Manisa, Türkiye
SLAVICA PETOVIĆ
University of Montenegro, Institute of Marine Biology, Put I Bokeljske brigade 68, Kotor, Montenegro
PASQUALE RICCI
Department of Bioscience, Biotechnology and Environment, University of Bari, Via E. Orabona 4, Bari, Italy
VICTOR ORENES-SALAZAR
Departamento de Ecología e Hidrología, Universidad de Murcia, Campus Espinardo, Murcia, Spain
EMILIO SPERONE
Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences DIBEST, University of Calabria, Rende, Italy
ANDREA SPINELLI
Research Department, Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Oceanogràfic, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain
NIR STERN
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research P.O.B. 8030, Haifa, Israel
AVIYAM TAGAR
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research P.O.B. 8030, Haifa, Israel
VALENTINA TANDUO
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, Naples, Italy
ERGÜN TAŞKIN
Manisa Celal Bayar University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology, Yunusemre, Manisa, Türkiye
FRANCESCO TIRALONGO
Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy & Ente Fauna Marina Mediterranea, Scientific Organization for Research and Conservation of Marine Biodiversity, Avola, Italy & Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies, National Research Council, Ancona, Italy
EGIDIO TRAINITO
Genoa Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Istituto Nazionale di Biologia, Ecologia e Biotecnologie Marine Villa del Principe, Piazza del Principe 4, 16126 Genoa, Italy
CEMAL TURAN
Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetic Laboratory, Department of Marine Sciences, Marine Science and Technology Faculty, Iskenderun Technical University, TR 31220, Iskenderun, Hatay, Türkiye
SERCAN YAPICI
Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Fisheries, Kötekli, Muğla, Türkiye
IASONAS ZAFEIRIDIS
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (IMBRIW), 46,7 km Athinon-Souniou, Greee
ARGYRO ZENETOS
Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Anavyssos, Greece
Abstract

This collective article presents new information about 15 introduced taxa belonging to five phyla: one Rhodophyta, one Chlorophyta, one Mollusca, one Annelida, two Arthropoda, and nine Chordata (one Ascidiacea and eight Osteichthyes). The records refer to eight Mediterranean countries and extend from the Alboran Sea to the Levantine Sea as follows: Spain: first record of the African hind Cephalopholis taeniops for the Alboran Sea, and a further record of the Monrovia surgeonfish Acanthurus monroviae, extending its distribution northwards in the Western Mediterranean. Italy: an additional record of the squat lobster Scyllarus subarctus based on its nisto stage, new records of the lionfish Pterois miles in the north-western Ionian Sea, first records of the bivalve Fulvia fragilis for the Italian Adriatic coast, and a record of the amphipod Ptilohyale littoralis in the northern Adriatic Sea, also representing the first report for the Mediterranean Sea. Montenegro: first record of the non indigenous ascidian Ciona robusta. Albania: first record of the red cornetfish Fistularia petimba. Greece: first record of the cryptogenic polychaete Alitta succinea in association with ship fouling, suggesting the possibility of a non-indigenous origin of Mediterranean populations of this species, and first record of the Seychelles dragonet Synchiropus sechellensis for the Saronikos Gulf. Türkiye: first record of the red alga Womersleyella setacea, report of an abundant population of the Indian twospot cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus in the Turkish Aegean Sea, and first record of Synodus randalli, also corresponding to the first report for the Mediterranean Sea. Syria: first record of the blenny Istiblennius cf. meleagris. Israel: report of an algal bloom of the green alga Codium parvulum, and first record of Synchiropus sechellensis.

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