To be or not to be alien, that is the question: the case of five new polychaete species from the Levantine Sea

MATTEO PUTIGNANO, ANDREA TOSO, LARA MARASTELLA FUMAROLA, DESIRÈE DIMICHELE, MICHEL BARICHE, ADRIANA GIANGRANDE, LUIGI MUSCO, STEFANO PIRAINO, JOACHIM LANGENECK

330-356

Anthropogenic noise is a dominant component of the shallow-water soundscape of the eastern Ionian Sea

VASSILIS GALANOS, ALICE AFFATATI, ANASTASIOS KALIMERIS, STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS, ANGELO CAMERLENGHI, VASILIS TRYGONIS

287-301

A natural population of the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758) in the northern Adriatic Sea: Changes over time and restoration potential

DARIA EZGETA-BALIĆ, RATKO CVITANIĆ, NEDO VRGOČ, DAMIR MEDVEŠEK, JELENA NEJAŠMIĆ, MELITA PEHARDA, BARBARA ZORICA, NIKA STAGLIČIĆ, NIKO BUJAS

308-320

Current fish community structure of an anthropogenically pressured system: the case of the Küçükçekmece Lagoon (NW Türkiye)

GÜLŞAH SAÇ, SEVAN AĞDAMAR, HARUN İNCİ, ÖZGÜN DENIZ YÜREKLİ, İREM ŞARLAK, TUĞÇE YETİM, MÜFIT ÖZULUĞ

277-286

Reproductive Characteristics of the Invasive Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun, 1896) in the Marchica Lagoon (Alboran Sea, Morocco)

NASSIR KADDOURI, DOUAA SLIMANI, MOHAMED SELFATI, NAJIB EL OUAMARI, HOCEIN BAZAIRI

Extreme storms could limit the expansion of the invasive species Caulerpa cylindracea on rocky shores

CARLOS SANZ-LAZARO, MARC TERRADAS-FERNÁNDEZ, NURIA CASADO-COY

321-329

Integrating zooplankton biomarkers within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) assessment

MARIA PROTOPAPA, INMA HERRERA, WILHELM HAGEN, ROLF KOPPELMANN, JONNA ENGSTRÖM-ÖST, CATHERINE TSANGARIS, SOULTANA ZERVOUDAKI, LIDIA YEBRA

357-364

Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in the Mediterranean Sea: first confirmed records from the southeastern Levant

ADI BARASH, YA’ARA GROSSMARK, RE’EM NERI, SHEVY BAT-SHEVA ROTHMAN

302-307