Vol. 19 No. 3 (2018)

Published: 2019-01-28

Research Article
Initiating DNA barcoding of Eastern Mediterranean deep-sea biota

GUY PAZ, YANA YUDKOVSKY, LEE SHAISH, NIR STERN, HADAS LUBINEVSKI, HENK K MIENIS, JACOB DOUEK, BELLA S GALIL, MENACHEM GOREN, BARUCH RINKEVICH

416-429

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Amphipods from tidal channels of the Gulf of Gabès (central Mediterranean Sea)

ABIR FERSI, JEAN CLAUDE DAUVIN, JEAN PHILIPPE PEZY, LASSAD NEIFAR

430-443

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Seamounts as hot-spots of large pelagic aggregations

PAOLO VASSALLO, CHIARA PAOLI, JESSICA ALESSI, ALBERTA MANDICH, MAURIZIO WÜRTZ, CRISTINA FIORI

444-458

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The “discard problem” in Mediterranean fisheries, in the face of the European Union landing obligation: the case of bottom trawl fishery and implications for management

DIMITRIOS DAMALAS, ALESSANDRO LIGAS, KONSTANTINOS TSAGARAKIS, VASSILIKI VASSILOPOULOU, KONSTANTINOS I. STERGIOU, ARGYRIOS KALLIANIOTIS, MARIO SBRANA, FRANCESC MAYNOU

459-476

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The Atlantic–Mediterranean ecological connection: a study on decapod larval communities

RITA F.T. PIRES, MARIA PAN, IGNÁCIO A. CATALÁN, LAURA PRIETO, MIGUEL P. P. SANTOS, CLÁUDIA FARIA, SUSANA FERREIRA, ANTONINA DOS SANTOS

477-490

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A novel grid-net design to eliminate bycatch in beam trawl fishing for the veined rapa whelk in the south-eastern Black Sea

AHMET RAIF ERYAŞAR

494-503

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Isopods of the genus Astacilla (Valvifera, Arcturidae) from the LIFE + INDEMARES project off Alborán Island (S Spain), with the description of a rare species A. carlosoteroi (Reboreda, Wägele & Garmendia, 1994)

BEATRIZ RINCÓN, SAÚL ARRANZ, JUAN JUNOY

504-512

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Bacteria from the “Saline di Tarquinia” marine salterns reveal very atypical growth profiles with regards to salinity and temperature

PAOLO BARGHINI, MARCELLA PASQUALETTI, SUSANNA GORRASI, MASSIMILIANO FENICE

513-525

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Assessing the regional conservation status of sponges (Porifera): the case of the Aegean ecoregion

VASILIS GEROVASILEIOU, THANOS DAILIANIS, MARIA SINI, MARIA del MAR OTERO, CATHERINE NUMA, STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS, ELENI VOULTSIADOU

526-537

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Interactions between free-living nematodes and benthic diatoms: insights from the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea)

ANNALISA FRANZO, KATJA GUILINI, TAMARA CIBIC, PAOLA DEL NEGRO

538-554

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Structure and spatio-temporal dynamics of the artisanal small-scale fisheries at the future MPA of “Taza” (Algerian coast, SW Mediterranean)

IBRAHIM BOUBEKRI, ALEX JAMES CAVEEN, ABDALLAH BORHANE DJEBAR, RACHID AMARA, HUBERT MAZUREK

555-571

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Seasonal and bathymetric effects on macrofouling invertebrates’ primary succession in a mediterraenan non-indigenous species hotspot area

MARCO LEZZI, ADRIANA GIANGRANDE

572-588

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Opportunistic seaweeds replace Cystoseira forests on an industrialised coast in Cyprus

DEMETRIS KLETOU, IOANNIS SAVVA, KONSTANTINOS TSIAMIS, JASON M. HALL-SPENCER

598-610

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Redescription of the Mediterranean endemic parasitic isopod Anuropodione amphiandra (Codreanu, Codreanu & Pike, 1966) n. comb. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Bopyridae) from Munida rutllanti Zariquiey Alvarez, 1952, with new records from Turkey and a review of the genus Anuropodione Bourdon, 1967

CHRISTOPHER B. BOYKO, JASON D. WILLIAMS, AHMET ÖKTENER

611-619

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Spatio-temporal patterns based on demographic and genetic diversity of the purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus in the area around Corsica (Mediterranean Sea)

SOPHIE DUCHAUD, ERIC D.H. DURIEUX, STEPHANE COUPE, VANINA PASQUALINI, SONIA TERNENGO

620-641

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Spatial distribution, abundance and habitat use of the endemic Mediterranean fan mussel Pinna nobilis in Gera Gulf, Lesvos (Greece): comparison of design-based and model-based approaches

ALEXANDROS TSATIRIS, VASILEIOS PAPADOPOULOS, DESPINA MAKRI, KONSTANSTINOS TOPOUZELIS, EVA MANOUTSOGLOU, THOMAS HASIOTIS, STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS

642-655

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Sea turtles in the eastern margin of the North Atlantic: the northern Ibero-Moroccan Gulf as an important neritic area for sea turtles

JUAN JESÚS BELLIDO LÓPEZ, ESTEFANIA TORREBLANCA, JOSÉ CARLOS BAEZ, JUAN ANTONIO CAMIÑAS

662-672

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Short Communication
Collective Article A
New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (November 2018)

MEHMET BAKİ YOKEŞ, VASILIS ANDREOU, RIGERS BAKIU, SARA BONANOMI, JUDITH CAMPS, GEORGE CHRISTIDIS, FABIO CROCETTA, IOANNIS GIOVOS, ANDREA GORI, TEA JURETIĆ, SELAHATTİN ÜNSAL KARHAN, STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS, ELENI KYTINOU, JOACHIM LANGENECK, LOVRENC LIPEJ, MARIA MAXIMIADI, NIKOLAS MICHAILIDIS, ELENI MITSOU, ARTEMIS NICOLAIDOU, SLAVICA PETOVIĆ, PATRICIA PRADO, ANDREU SANTÍN, KONSTANTINOS TENEKETZIS, IOANNIS THASITIS, VALENTINA TIRELLI, DOMEN TRKOV, ERION TROPLINI, KONSTANTINOS TSIAMIS, ANDREA VANNUCCI

673-689

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