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

This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 21 taxa that belong to six Phyla: one Cnidaria, one Ctenophora, two Annelida, four Mollusca, two Arthropoda, and eleven Chordata. These records were reported from ten countries from the western to the eastern Mediterranean Sea as follows: Spain: early colonization signs of the Mar Menor lagoon by the cigar jellyfish Olindias muelleri; France: second record of the sea chub of the genus Kyphosus in French Mediterranean waters; Italy: first record of the marbled crab Pachygrapsus maurus in Sardinian waters; first records of the polychaetes Malmgrenia polypapillata and Levinsenia tribranchiata in the Tyrrhenian Sea; new record of the deep-sea squid Ancistrocheirus lesueurii in the Tyrrhenian Sea; first record of the pignosed arrowtooth eel Dysomma brevirostre in the Adriatic Sea; Tunisia: first documented record of the blue butterfish Stromateus fiatola and new record of the iconic great white shark Carcharodon carcharias in the Gulf of Gabes; Slovenia: first records of the sea slug Diaphorodoris alba and the sharpnose sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo; Montenegro: new record of the rare tope shark Galeorhinus galeus; Greece: new records of the rabbitfish Chimaera monstrosa and the electric ray Tetronarce nobiliana; first published record of the nuribranch Discodoris rosi; first record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, unreported so far from the entire Mediterranean; Turkey: first record of the ctenophore Hormiphora plumosa at country level; first records of the anomuran decapod Munida speciosa and the Mediterranean tripodfish, Bathypterois mediterraneus from the Levantine Sea; Cyprus: first documented record of the nuribranch Scyllaea pelagica; Lebanon: first record of the killer whale Orcinus orca from the Levantine Sea.

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Kousteni V. Anastasiadis A. Bariche M. Battaglia P. Bonifazi A. Cetkovic I. Chimienti G. Colombo M. Constantinou C. Corsini-Foka M. Dalyan C. Dogrammatzi A. Domenichetti F. El Zrelli R. Fernández-Alias A. Kampouris T. Kesici N.B. Kupper F. Lipej L. Mancini E. Manunza B. Marcos C. Mavric B. Mavruk S. Mutlu E. Ozvarol Y. Papadimitriou E. Pesic A. Pérez-Ruzafa A. Pey A. Poursanidis D. Rizgalla J. Samaha Z. Stipa M. Trkov D. Tureli C. Ventura P. Yacoubi L. Zacchetti L. y Zava B. New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022). HCMR, 2022. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.28372

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Date of creation 2024-11-05
Date of last revision 2024-11-05
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Metadata identifier f7aeb84b-120a-5e69-85c3-7e3b9759ab0b
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Name of the dataset creator Kousteni, V., Anastasiadis, A., Bariche, M., Battaglia, P., Bonifazi, A., Cetkovic, I., Chimienti, G., Colombo, M., Constantinou, C., Corsini-Foka, M., Dalyan, C., Dogrammatzi, A., Domenichetti, F., El Zrelli, R., Fernández-Alias, A., Kampouris, T., Kesici, N.B., Kupper, F., Lipej, L., Mancini, E., Manunza, B., Marcos, C., Mavric, B., Mavruk, S., Mutlu, E., Ozvarol, Y., Papadimitriou, E., Pesic, A., Pérez-Ruzafa, A., Pey, A., Poursanidis, D., Rizgalla, J., Samaha, Z., Stipa, M., Trkov, D., Tureli, C., Ventura, P., Yacoubi, L., Zacchetti, L. y Zava, B.
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