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Table 1. Aplysia dactylomela reported in the Mediterranean Sea

Total Length Sample Location
(cm) Number

Present Study, 2017 35 1 Yeşilovacık Bay,
North-Eastern
Mediterranean
Bernat & Molinari, 2016 20 1 Capo San Donato
harbour, Ligurian Sea
Mannino et.al., 2014 6 to 35 21 Egadi Islands marine
protected area
(western Sicily)
Yokes et al., 2012 14.5 1 Kaş Coast, north-
eastern Mediterranean
Kljajić & Mačić, 2012 15, 17 2 Montenegro (SE
Adriatic Sea)
Turk & Furlan, 2011 - 1 The island of Susac
(Crotia) Adriyatic Sea
Katsanevakis, 2011 - 3 The island of Paros,
Aegean Sea
Pasternak & Galil, 2010 12, 20 2 Akhziv submarine
canyon (Israel)
Schembri, 2008 30 1 Cirkewwa, Malta,
Kaş Coast,
Yokeş et al., 2010 - 14 north-eastern
Mediterranean
Poursanidis et al., 2009 - 1 The island of Crete
Agean Sea
Hatay Coast,
Çınar et al., 2006 18 1 north-eastern
Mediterranean
North-Eastern Sicily
Greco, 2006 - 30 (Giardini Naxos,
Taormina)
Trainito, 2003 - 1 The island of
Lampedusa, Central
Mediterranean Sea

The first record of the species in Turkish coastal waters was noted in Hatay (Çinar et al.
2006). The last record of the species was reported in 2012 in Kaş, Turkey (Yokes et al., 2012). The
present short communication reported the first record of A. dactylomela from Yeşilovacık Bay.
It is common in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans and it is also quite well distributed
in the Caribbean and in Atlantic Islands along the west coast of Africa. Although this is quite a
common sea hare, how and where they came from to the Mediterranean is still unknown (Shembri,
2008).
In a study by Bernat &Molinari (2016), the specimen of the A. dactylomela were on the
rocky plateau surface, well colonized by photophilic algae represented mainly by Chlorophiceae
(especially Acetabularia acetabulum, Ulva sp. and Flabellia petiolata), Rodophyceae as Jania
rubens and Phaeophyceae as Padina pavonica. Similarly, in our study, we observed a specimen on