TY - JOUR AU - CROCETTA, FABIO AU - AL MABRUK, SARA A.A. AU - AZZURRO, ERNESTO AU - BAKIU, RIGERS AU - BARICHE, MICHEL AU - BATJAKAS, IOANNIS E. AU - BEJAOUI, TAREK AU - BEN SOUISSI, JAMILA AU - CAUCHI, JUSTIN AU - CORSINI-FOKA, MARIA AU - DEIDUN, ALAN AU - EVANS, JULIAN AU - GALDIES, JOHANN AU - GHANEM, RAOUIA AU - KAMPOURIS, THODOROS E. AU - KATSANEVAKIS, STELIOS AU - KONDYLATOS, GERASIMOS AU - LIPEJ, LOVRENC AU - LOMBARDO, ANDREA AU - MARLETTA, GIULIANA AU - MEJDANI, ENEID AU - NIKOLIDAKIS, SAVVAS AU - OVALIS, PANAYOTIS AU - RABAOUI, LOTFI AU - RAGKOUSIS, MICHAIL AU - ROGELJA, MANJA AU - SAKR, JOELLE AU - SAVVA, IOANNIS AU - TANDUO, VALENTINA AU - TURAN, CEMAL AU - UYAN, ALI AU - ZENETOS, ARGYRO PY - 2021/11/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - “New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records” (November 2021) JF - Mediterranean Marine Science JA - Mediterr. Mar. Sci. VL - 22 IS - 3 SE - Collective Article A DO - 10.12681/mms.26668 UR - https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/26668 SP - 724-746 AB - <p>This Collective Article includes records of 29 alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to eight Phyla (Rhodophyta, Ochrophyta, Cnidaria, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Echinodermata, and Chordata) and coming from 11 countries. Notes published here can be divided into three different categories: occupancy estimation for wide areas, new records for the Mediterranean Sea, and new records of species expanding within the Mediterranean Sea. The first category includes a visual survey held along the coastline of Peloponnese (Greece), which yielded records of 15 species. The second category includes the first Mediterranean records of the Coho salmon <em>Oncorhynchus kisutch</em> (Greece) and of the Arabian monocle bream <em>Scolopsis</em> <em>ghanam</em> (Tunisia). The third category includes new records for countries (<em>Ganonema</em> <em>farinosum</em> in Malta, <em>Cassiopea andromeda</em> in Libya, <em>Cingulina isseli</em> in Greece, <em>Okenia picoensis</em> in Italy, <em>Callinectes sapidus</em> in Slovenia, <em>Charybdis</em> cf. <em>hellerii</em> in Malta, <em>Urocaridella pulchella</em> in Cyprus, <em>Ablennes hians</em> and <em>Aluterus monoceros</em> in Lebanon, and <em>Fistularia petimba</em> in Greece and Lebanon), new records for MSFD areas or regional seas (<em>Septifer cumingii</em> in the Greek Ionian Sea and <em>F. petimba</em> in the Marmara Sea), and confirmation of old, doubtful, or spurious records/statements (<em>Branchiomma luctuosum</em> in Tunisia, <em>Thalamita poissonii</em> in the Saronikos Gulf, and <em>Pterois miles</em> in Albania). Noteworthy, the three new records of <em>F. petimba</em> suggest that it may soon spread further in the Mediterranean Sea, as already happened for its congeneric <em>Fistularia commersonii</em>. Distributional data reported here will help tracing colonization routes of alien species in the basin and may facilitate the development of mitigation measures.</p> ER -