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    New mediterranean biodiversity records (October 2015)
    (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 2015) Crocetta F.; Agius D.; Balistreri P.; Bariche M.; Bayhan Y.K.; Çakir M.; Ciriaco S.; Corsini-Foka M.; Deidun A.; El Zrelli R.; Ergüden D.; Evans J.; Ghelia M.; Giavasi M.; Kleitou P.; Kondylatos G.; Lipej L.; Mifsud C.; Özvarol Y.; Pagano A.; Portelli P.; Poursanidis D.; Rabaoui L.; Schembri P.J.; Taşkin E.; Tiralongo F.; Zenetos A.
    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 has adopted a country-based classification and the countries are listed according to their geographic position, from west to east. New biodiversity data are reported for 7 different countries, although one species reported from Malta is new for the entire Mediterranean basin, and is presumably also present in Israel and Lebanon (see below, under Malta). Italy: the rare native fish Gobius kolombatovici is first reported from the Ionian Sea, whilst the alien jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica and the alien fish Oplegnathus fasciatus are first reported from the entire country. The presence of O. fasciatus from Trieste is concomitantly the first for the entire Adriatic Sea. Finally, the alien bivalve Arcuatula senhousia is reported for the first time from Campania (Tyrrhenian Sea). Tunisia: a bloom of the alien crab Portunus segnis is first reported from the Gulf of Gabes, where it was considered as casual. Malta: the alien flatworm Maritigrella fuscopunctata is recorded in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, on the basis of 25 specimens. At the same time, web searches include possible unpublished records from Israel and Lebanon. The alien crab P. segnis, already mentioned above, is first formally reported from Malta based on specimens collected in 1972. Concomitantly, the presence of Callinectes sapidus in Maltese waters is excluded since based on misidentifications. Greece: the Atlantic northern brown shrimp Penaeus atzecus, previously known from the Ionian Sea from sporadic records only, is now well established in Greek and international Ionian waters. The alien sea urchin Diadema setosum is reported for the second time from Greece, and its first record from the country is backdated to 2010 in Rhodes Island. The alien lionfish Pterois miles is first reported from Greece and concomitantly from the entire Aegean Sea. Turkey: the alien rhodophyte Antithamnion hubbsii is first reported from Turkey and the entire eastern Mediterranean. New distribution data are also provided for the native fishes Alectis alexandrina and Heptranchias perlo. In particular, the former record consists of a juvenile measuring 21.38 mm total length, whilst the latter by a mature male. Cyprus: the rare native cephalopod Macrotritopus defilippi, and the alien crab Atergatis roseus, sea slug Plocamopherus ocellatus and fish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus are first recorded from the entire country. Lebanon: the alien crabs Actaea savignii and Matuta victor, as well as the alien fish Synanceia verrucosa, are first recorded from the entire country. In addition, the first Mediterranean record of A. savignii is backdated to 2006, whilst the high number of M. victor specimens observed in Lebanon suggest its establishment in the Basin. The Atlantic fishes Paranthias furcifer and Seriola fasciata, and the circumtropical Rachycentron canadum, are also first reported from the country. The P. furcifer record backdates its presence in the Mediterranean to 2007, whilst S. fasciata records backdate its presence in the eastern Mediterranean to 2005. Finally, two of these latter species have been recently ascribed to alien species, but all three species may fit the cryptogenic category, if not a new one, better.
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    New Mediterranean biodiversity records (July 2015)
    (Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 2015) Tsiamis K.; Aydogan O.; Bailly N.; Balistreri P.; Bariche M.; Carden-Noad S.; Corsini-Foka M.; Crocetta F.; Davidov B.; Dimitriadis C.; Dragičević B.; Drakulić M.; Dulčić J.; Escánez A.; Fernández-Álvarez F.A.; Gerakaris V.; Gerovasileiou V.; Hoffman R.; Izquierdo-Gómez D.; Izquierdo-Muñoz A.; Kondylatos G.; Latsoudis P.; Lipej L.; Madiraca F.; Mavrič B.; Parasporo M.; Sourbès L.; Taşkin E.; Türker A.; Yapici S.
    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).
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    Unpublished mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species
    (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre, 2020) Katsanevakis S.; Poursanidis D.; Hoffman R.; Rizgalla J.; Rothman S.B.-S.; Levitt-Barmats Y.; Hadjioannou L.; Trkov D.; Garmendia J.M.; Rizzo M.; Bartolo A.G.; Bariche M.; Tomas F.; Kleitou P.; Schembri P.J.; Kletou D.; Tiralongo F.; Pergent C.; Pergent G.; Azzurro E.; Bilecenoglu M.; Lodola A.; Ballesteros E.; Gerovasileiou V.; Verlaque M.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi A.; Kytinou E.; Dailianis T.; Ferrario J.; Crocetta F.; Jimenez C.; Evans J.; Ragkousis M.; Lipej L.; Borg J.A.; Dimitriadis C.; Chatzigeorgiou G.; Albano P.G.; Kalogirou S.; Bazairi H.; Espinosa F.; Ben Souissi J.; Tsiamis K.; Badalamenti F.; Langeneck J.; Noel P.; Deidun A.; Marchini A.; Skouradakis G.; Royo L.; Sini M.; Bianchi C.N.; Sghaier Y.-R.; Ghanem R.; Doumpas N.; Zaouali J.; Tsirintanis K.; Papadakis O.; Morri C.; Çinar M.E.; Terrados J.; Insacco G.; Zava B.; Soufi-Kechaou E.; Piazzi L.; Ben Amor K.O.; Andriotis E.; Gambi M.C.; Ben Amor M.M.; Garrabou J.; Linares C.; Fortič A.; Digenis M.; Cebrian E.; Fourt M.; Zotou M.; Castriota L.; Di Martino V.; Rosso A.; Pipitone C.; Falautano M.; García M.; Zakhama-Sraieb R.; Khamassi F.; Mannino A.M.; Ktari M.H.; Kosma I.; Rifi M.; Karachle P.K.; Yapıcı S.; Bos A.R.; Balistreri P.; Esplá A.A.R.; Tempesti J.; Inglese O.; Giovos I.; Damalas D.; Benhissoune S.; Huseyinoglu M.F.; Rjiba-Bahri W.; Santamaría J.; Orlando-Bonaca M.; Izquierdo A.; Stamouli C.; Montefalcone M.; Cerim H.; Golo R.; Tsioli S.; Orfanidis S.; Michailidis N.; Gaglioti M.; Taşkın E.; Mancuso E.; Žunec A.; Cvitković I.; Filiz H.; Sanfilippo R.; Siapatis A.; Mavrič B.; Karaa S.; Türker A.; Monniot F.; Verdura J.; El Ouamari N.; Selfati M.; Zenetos A.
    Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta. © Katsanevakis et al.