Browsing by Author "Galil, BS"

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    New records of rarely reported species in the Mediterranean Sea (July 2023)
    Grech, D; Asciutto, E; Bakiu, R; Battaglia, P; Ben-Grira, C; Çamlik, ÖY; Cappuccinelli, R; Carmona, L; Chebaane, S; Crocetta, F; Desiderato, A; Domenichetti, F; Dulcic, J; Fasciglione, P; Galil, BS; Galiya, MY; Hoffman, R; Langeneck, J; Lipej, L; Madrenas, E; Martinelli, M; Martín-Hervás, MD; Masala, C; Mastrototaro, F; Mavric, B; Montesanto, F; Mucciolo, S; Othman, RM; Sempere-Valverde, J; Soldo, A; Spinelli, A; Taskin, E; Tiralongo, F; Toso, A; Trainito, E; Trkov, D; Vitale, D; Zacchetti, LORENZO
    This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 23 marine taxa that belong to five Phyla: two Chlo-rophyta, one Annelida, six Mollusca, three Arthropoda, eleven Chordata (one Ascidiacea, one Elasmobranchii and nine Teleostei) and extending from the Western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. All these records were reported from nine countries from the western to the eastern Mediterranean Sea, with a broad biogeographical coverage as follows: Spain: first records of the sacoglos-sans Cyerce graeca and Placida tardyi for the Alboran Sea and first records of the nudibranch Marionia gemmii for the Mediter-ranean waters of Spain; first records of nudibranch Algarvia alba in the Mediterranean Sea. Italy: First report of the long-legged crab Paragalene longicrura, a further new Mediterranean record of the rare offshore rockfish Pontinus kuhlii, first documented record of the spiny butterfly ray Gymnura altavela in Sardinia (Tyrrhenian Sea), new record of the red-spotted wrasse Lappanella fasciata from the Messina Strait, first documented record of the rarely observed brown moray Gymnothorax unicolor in the Ionian coast, first record of the colonial ascidian Botrylloides israeliensis, first record of the Morocco dentex Dentex maroccanus, first record of mottled shore crab Pachygrapsus maurus and of an adult specimen of barracudina Lestidiops sphyrenoides in the Adri-atic Sea, and further new Mediterranean records of Ross worm Sabellaria spinulosa along the same coast. Tunisia: second record of smalleye squaretail Tetragonurus cuvieri from the African Mediterranean coast. Slovenia: first records of the sea slug Trapania graeffei and Melanochlamys wildpretii, with the last one also representing the northernmost finding of this species. Croatia: northernmost record of the endangered twaite shad Alosa fallax in the Adriatic coast. Albania: first records of the Mediterranean spearfish Tetrapturus belone. Turkiye: first record from the Aegean coasts for Turkiye of the green macroalgae Cladophora bat-tersii and Valonia aegagropila. Israel: first record of the skeleton shrimp Caprella acanthifera in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Syria: first record of the Smooth grenadier Nezumia aequalis from Syrian marine waters.
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    New records of introduced species in the Mediterranean Sea (November 2023)
    Langeneck, J; Bakiu, R; Chalari, N; Chatzigeorgiou, G; Crocetta, F; Dogdu, SA; Durmishaj, S; Galil, BS; García-Charton, JA; Gülsahin, A; Hoffman, R; Leone, A; Lezzi, M; Logrieco, A; Mancini, E; Minareci, E; Petovic, S; Ricci, P; Orenes-Salazar, V; Salimeh, M; Sperone, E; Spinelli, A; Stern, N; Tagar, A; Tanduo, V; Taskin, E; Tiralongo, F; Trainito, E; Turan, C; Yapici, S; Zafeidis, I; Zenetos, A
    This collective article presents new information about 15 introduced taxa belonging to five phyla: one Rhodophyta, one Chlo-rophyta, one Mollusca, one Annelida, two Arthropoda, and nine Chordata (one Ascidiacea and eight Osteichthyes). The records refer to eight Mediterranean countries and extend from the Alboran Sea to the Levantine Sea as follows: Spain: first record of the African hind Cephalopholis taeniops for the Alboran Sea, and a further record of the Monrovia surgeonfish Acanthurus monrovi-ae, extending its distribution northwards in the Western Mediterranean. Italy: an additional record of the squat lobster Scyllarus subarctus based on its nisto stage, new records of the lionfish Pterois miles in the north-western Ionian Sea, first records of the bivalve Fulvia fragilis for the Italian Adriatic coast, and a record of the amphipod Ptilohyale littoralis in the northern Adriatic Sea, also representing the first report for the Mediterranean Sea. Montenegro: first record of the non-indigenous ascidian Ciona robus- ta. Albania: first record of the red cornetfish Fistularia petimba. Greece: first record of the cryptogenic polychaete Alitta succinea in association with ship fouling, suggesting the possibility of a non-indigenous origin of Mediterranean populations of this species, and first record of the Seychelles dragonet Synchiropus sechellensis for the Saronikos Gulf. Turkiye: first record of the red alga Womersleyella setacea, report of an abundant population of the Indian twospot cardinalfish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus in the Turkish Aegean Sea, and first record of Synodus randalli, also corresponding to the first report for the Mediterranean Sea. Syria: first record of the blenny Istiblennius cf. meleagris. Israel: report of an algal bloom of the green alga Codium parvulum, and first record of Synchiropus sechellensis.