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DOI: 10.12681/mms.1976

New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (November, 2016)

      CH. MYTILINEOU1, E.H.Kh. AKEL2, N. BABALI3, P. BALISTRERI4, M. BARICHE5, Y.Ö. BOYACI6,
        L. CILENTI7, C. CONSTANTINOU8, F. CROCETTA1, M. ÇELİK9, H. DERELI10, C. DOUNAS11,
F. DURUCAN6, A. GARRIDO12, V. GEROVASILEIOU11, K. KAPIRIS1, T. KEBAPCIOGLU10, P. KLEITOU13,

             A. KRYSTALAS11, L. LIPEJ14, I. MAINA1, P. MARAKIS15, B. MAVRIČ14, R. MOUSSA16,
    L. PEÑA-RIVAS17, D. POURSANIDIS18, W. RENDA19, S.I. RIZKALLA2, A. ROSSO20, T. SCIROCCO7,

                 F. SCIUTO20, G. SERVELLO21, F. TIRALONGO22, S. YAPICI9 and A. ZENETOS1

      1 Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, GR-19013,
                                                              Anavyssos, Greece

            2 Fishery Biology Lab, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries Kait-Bey, Alexandria, Egypt
     3 National Research Centre for Developing of Fisheries and Aquaculture / National College of Marines Sciences

                                                     and Coastal Management, Algeria
                                                4 Vicolo Giotto 6, 91023, Favignana, Italy
           5 Department of Biology, American University of Beirut, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
                             6 Eğirdir Fisheries Faculty, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey
                     7 Istituto di Scienze Marine, C.N.R, UOS Lesina, Via Pola, 4, 71010 Lesina (FG), Italy
                                     8 Τhessalonikis 15, Agios Dometios, 2363, Nicosia, Cyprus
                     9 Faculty of Fisheries, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, 48000, Kötekli, Muğla, Turkey
                                10 Faculty of Fisheries, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Izmir, Turkey
            11 Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research,

                                                      71003 Heraklion, Kriti, Greece
  12 Agencia de Gestión Agraria y Pesquera de Andalucía, Ctra. de Cártama, km 12, 29591 Santa Rosalía, Campanillas,

                                                                 Málaga, Spain
13 Marine & Environmental Research (MER) Lab, 202 Amathountos Av, Marina Gardens, Block B, Off. 13-14, Limassol, Cyprus

                              14 Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia
                                           15 Makedonias 74, GR-71414, Gazi, Kriti, Greece

 16 Invertebrate Aquaculture Laboratory, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Kait-Bey, Alexandria, Egypt
17 Área de Gestión Sanitaria Sur de Granada (SAS, Junta de Andalucía), Avda. Martín Cuevas, s/n, 18600 Motril, Granada, Spain

   18 Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Vassilika Vouton,
                                                    GR-71110, Heraklion, Kriti, Greece

                                           19 Via Bologna 18/A, I-87032, Amantea (CS), Italy
                            20 Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Earth
                         Sciences Section, University of Catania, Corso Italia 57, I-95129 Catania, Italy
               21 CdL Acquacultura e Igiene delle Produzioni Ittiche, University of Bologna, via A. Doria, 5 a/b,

                                                 I-47042 Cesenatico (Forlì-Cesena), Italy

                                      22 Ente Fauna Marina Mediterranea, Avola, Siracusa, Italy

Abstract

     This Collective Article presents information on 26 taxa belonging to 8 Phyla and extending from the western Mediterranean to
the Levantine Sea. The new records were found in 9 countries as follows: Spain: first record for the Mediterranean of the crab Can-
cer bellianus; Algeria: further records of the alien fish Lagocephalus sceleratus in western Algerian waters; Italy: first report on
the presence and establishment of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in Lessina and Varano Lagoons (W. Adriatic) and of Penaeus
aztecus in Corigliano Gulf (Italian Ionian). Moreover, the extension of the distribution range of the polychaete Branchiomma
bairdi to W. Sicily as well as that of the crab Ocypode cursor and the bryozoan Catenicella paradoxa to E. Sicily are cited. Slo-
venia: the record of the rare saccoglossan gastropod Placida cremoniana from Piran (Gulf of Trieste) is the first for the Adriatic;
Greece: the native sea slug Eubranchus farrani is the first from the Eastern Mediterranean; many sightings of the bamboo corals
Isididae distributed along all the E. Ionian Sea and the establishment of P. aztecus in all Greek waters are also reported for first
time; the westernmost extension of the alien urchin Diadema setosum in Cretan waters is cited and new sightings of the alien spe-
cies Goniobranchus annulatus and Pterois miles are presented. Turkey: the alien fish Champsodon capensis is reported for first
time from the Aegean Sea and the native acari Agauopsis microrhyncha from the Levantine Sea; a new observation of the alien
crab Atergatis roseus in Güllük Bay-Aegean is also mentioned; Cyprus: first records of the alien urchin D. setosum and Lobotes
surinamensis in Cypriot waters; Lebanon: several sightings of Monachus monachus from Lebanese waters indicate a potential
better status for the species in the area; Egypt: first records of the alien crab Dorippe quadridens and the alien gastropods Nerita
sanguinolenta and Conomurex persicus from the Mediterranean Egyptian waters; extension of the distribution range of Diodora
funiculata and Diodora rueppellii and a second record of the alien Fulvia fragilis in the same area.

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