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Figure 1. The shaded area indicates the location where the specimen was observed
A specimen of spotted sea hare was seen in a rock pool which was covered with algae. It was first
recorded from Yeşilovacık Bay in 2017 (Figure 2). The specimen of A. dactylomela were sighted in a rock
pool at about 1 m deep and its length is 35 cm in the rock poll was covered with algae species. It was
sighted the Padina pavonica from the brown algae in the rock pools.
Figure 2. Aplysia dactylomela from Yeşilovacık Bay (35 cm length).
Discussion
The first record of the A. dactylomela from the Mediterranean Sea, in the Strait of Sicily waters
was reported in 2002 (Trainito, 2003). Some reports of the A. dactylomela are given in the
Mediterranean Sea in Table 1.
