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Mediterranean Marine Science Collective Article Α
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org10.12681/mms.1440

New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2015)

K. TSIAMIS1,2, Ö. AYDOGAN3, N. BAILLY4,5, P. BALISTRERI6, M. BARICHE7, S. CARDEN-NOAD8,9, M. CORSINI-
FOKA10, F. CROCETTA11, B. DAVIDOV12, C. DIMITRIADIS13, B. DRAGIČEVIĆ14, M. DRAKULIĆ9, J. DULČIĆ14,

A. ESCÁNEZ15, F.A. FERNÁNDEZ-ÁLVAREZ16, V. GERAKARIS1, V. GEROVASILEIOU4, R. HOFFMAN17, D.
IZQUIERDO-GÓMEZ18, A. IZQUIERDO-MUÑOZ19, G. KONDYLATOS10, P. LATSOUDIS20, L. LIPEJ21,

F. MADIRACA12, B. MAVRIČ21, M. PARASPORO22, L. SOURBÈS13, E. TAŞKIN3, A. TŰRKER23 and S. YAPICI23

1 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Anavyssos 19013, Attica, Greece
2 European Commission, Joint Research Centre - Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES),

H.01 Water Resources Unit, Via E. Fermi 2749, 21027-Ispra, Italy
3 Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Celal Bayar University, Muradiye-Manisa 45140, Turkey

4 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture,
71003 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

5 FishBase Information and Research Group, Los Baños, Laguna 4031, Philippines
6 Vicolo Giotto 6, 91023, Favignana, Italy

7 American University of Beirut, Department of Biology, PO Box 11-0236, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon
8 School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3YE, United Kingdom

9 Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation, P.O Box 42, Pythagorio 83 013, Samos, Greece
10 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodes, Greece

11 Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Villa Comunale, I-80121, Napoli, Italy
12 Sharklab International – Society for research and protection of the cartilaginous fish, 404 Sqaq IL-Forn,

Hamrun HMR 1961, Malta
13 National Marine Park of Zakynthos, Eleftheriou Venizelou 1, 29100, Zakynthos Island, Greece

14 Institute of Oceanography and Fisherires, pob P.O.Box 500, 21000 Split, Croatia
15 Departamento de Ecoloxía e Bioloxía Animal, Edificio de Ciencias Experimentais, Campus As Lagoas-Marcosende,

Universidade de Vigo, 36310 Vigo, Spain
16 Institut de Ciències del Mar (CSIC), Passeig Maritim 37–49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
17 Department of Molecular Biology and Ecology of Plants, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel
18 Departamento de Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, 03080 Alicante, Spain
19 Centro de Investigación Marina de Santa Pola (CIMAR), Universidad de Alicante-Ayuntamiento de Santa Pola,

03130 Santa Pola, Alicante, Spain
20 Hellenic Ornithological Society, Themistokleous 80, 10681 Athens, Greece

21 Marine Biology Station, National Institute of Biology, Piran, Slovenia
22 Strada Provinciale Punta Marsala 73, 91023, Favignana, Italy

23 Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Faculty of Fisheries, 48000, Kötekli, Muğla, Turkey

Abstract

The Collective Article ‘New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records’ of the Mediterranean Marine Science journal offers the
means to publish biodiversity records in the Mediterranean Sea. The current article is divided in two parts, for records of native
and alien species respectively. The new records of native species include: the neon flying squid Ommastrephes bartramii in the
waters surrounding the island of Capri, Thyrrenian Sea; the bigeye thresher shark Alopias superciliosus in the Adriatic Sea; a
juvenile basking shark Cetorhinus maximus caught off Piran (northern Adriatic); the deep-sea Messina rockfish Scorpaenodes
arenai in the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (East Ionian Sea, Greece); and the oceanic puffer Lagocephalus lagocephalus
in the Adriatic Sea.

The new records of alien species include: the red algae Antithamnionella elegans and Palisada maris-rubri, found for
the first time in Israel and Greece respectively; the green alga Codium parvulum reported from Turkey (Aegean Sea); the first
record of the alien sea urchin Diadema seto­sum in Greece; the nudibranch Goniobranchus annulatus reported from the South-
Eastern Aegean Sea (Greece); the opisthobranch Melibe viridis found in Lebanon; the new records of the blue spotted cornetfish
Fistularia commersonii along the Alicante coast (Eastern Spain); the alien fish Siganus luridus and Siganus rivulatus in Lipsi
Island, Dodecanese (Greece); the first record of Stephanolepis diaspros from the Egadi Islands Marine Protected Area (western
Sicily); a northward expansion of the alien pufferfish Torquigener flavimaculosus along the southeastern Aegean coasts of Turkey;
and data on the occurrence of the Lessepsian immigrants Alepes djedaba, Lagocephalus sceleratus and Fistularia commersonii in
the waters surrounding the island of Zakynthos (SE Ionian Sea, Greece).

472 Medit. Mar. Sci., 16/2, 2015, 472-488