New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (December 2022)

Federica Montesanto, Marco Albano, Deniz Ayas, Federico Betti, Gioele Capillo, Melih Ertan Çinar, Maria Corsini-Foka, Fabio Crocetta, Ertan Dağli, Claudio D’Iglio, Markos Digenis, Branko Dragičević, Sergio Famulari, Deniz Ergüden, Antonio Giova, Valentina Giussani, Razy Hoffman, Igor Isajlović, Lovrenc Lipej, Raquel López-EsclapezFrancesco Mastrototaro, Alessandra Moreni, Víctor Orenes-Salazar, Panayotis Ovalis, Wanda Plaiti, Juan A. Pujol, Lotfi Rabaoui, Ioannis Rallis, Manja Rogelja, Serena Savoca, Grigorios Skouradakis, Francesco Tiralongo, Margherita Toma, Domen Trkov, Nicolas Ubero-Pascal, Lamia Yacoubi, Ferhat Yalgin, Sercan Yapici, Leon L. Zamuda

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Abstract

This Collective Article presents information on 20 taxa belonging to five (5) Phyla: Cnidaria (2), Mollusca (8), Arthropoda (4), Echinodermata (1) and Chordata (5) recorded from the Alboran Sea to the Levantine Sea. These new records were found in seven (7) different ecoregions as follows: Alboran Sea: new record of the rare football octopus Ocythoe tuberculata in the harbour of Algeciras (Spain); Western Mediterranean Sea: first record of the isopod Arcturinella deltensis in the Ligurian Sea, and the third in the whole Mediterranean Sea; third Mediterranean site for the Muricidae Coralliophila ahuiri along the Italian coasts (Alghero); first and westernmost record of the goby Corcyrogobius liechtensteini from the Iberian Peninsula; new record of the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus from the coast of the Iberian Peninsula; first and easternmost record of Holothuria (Vaneyothuria) lentiginosa lentiginosa along the Italian coasts; Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra: seventh record of the oceanic squid Thysanoteuthis rhombus in Tunisia, and first for the Gulf of Gabes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)968-994
Number of pages27
JournalMediterranean Marine Science
Volume23
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

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