New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2020)
Ragkousis, Michail; Abdelali, Nardjes; Azzurro, Ernesto; Badreddine, Ali; Bariche, Michael; Bitar, Ghazi; Crocetta, Fabio; Denitto, Francesco; Digenis, Markos; El Zrelli, Radhouan; Ergenler, Aysegul; Fortic, Ana; Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Grimes, Samir; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Kocak, Cengtz; Licchelli, Cataldo; Loudaros, Evgenios; Mastrototaro, Francesco; Mavric, Borut; Mavruk, Sinan; Miliou, Anastasia; Montesanto, Federica; Ovalis, Panayods; Pontes, Miquel; Rabaoui, Lotfi; Sevingel, Nail; Spinelli, Andrea; Tiralongo, Francesco; Tsatiris, Alexandros; Turan, Cemal; Vitale, Dyana; Yalgin, Ferhat; Yapici, Sercan; Zenetos, Argyro;
This article includes 23 new records of alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 4 Phyla (Chordata, Echinodermata, Arthropoda and Mollusca), distributed from the Alboran to the Levantine Sea. Records are reported from eight countries listed from West to East as follows: Algeria: new records of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus; Spain: further spread and establishment of the sea slug Lamprohaminoea ovalis in continental shores; Tunisia: first record of the Atlantic Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus in the Gulf of Gabes; Italy: a new occurrence of the pufferfish Lagocephalus sceleratus in Northern Ionian waters; first record of Cephalopholis taeniops in the Ionian Sea; first record of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius atlanticus in the Ionian Sea; Slovenia: first record of the isopod Paranthura japonica in Slovenia; Greece: first record of the molluscs Eunaticina papilla, Plocamopherus ocellatus and the fish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus; first record of the ascidian Ecteinascidia turbinata in Kriti; the long-spined sea urchin Diadema setosum in the Ionian Sea; Turkey: first record of the sea spider Ammothea hilgendorfi; the stomatopod Cloridina cf. ichneumon; the fishes Pempheris rhomboidea from the Sea of Marmara and Paranthias furcifer from the Aegean Sea; Lebanon: new records of the fishes Arothron hispidus, Rachycentron canadum, Heniochus intermedius and Acanthurus monroviae; first record of Acanthostracion polygonius. The records of Cloridina cf. ichneumon from southern Turkey and the fish Acanthostracion polygonius from Lebanon, both being the first Mediterranean records, are noteworthy.
2020 - Articolo in rivista
Mediterranean Marine Science 21 (2020): 631–652.
Keywords: alien species, exotic species, Mediterranean