New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (October 2021)

Konstantinos Tsagarakis, Sandra AGIUS Darmanin, Sara A.A. Al Mabruk, Rocco Auriemma, Ernesto Azzurro, Nicholas Badouvas, Rigers Bakiu, Michel Bariche, Pietro Battaglia, Federico Betti, Diego Borme, Roberto Cacciamani, Federico Calì, Maria Corsini-Foka, Fabio Crocetta, Cem Dalyan, Alan Deidun, Markos Digenis, Filippo Domenichetti, Branko DragičevićJakov Dulčić, Furkan Durucan, Tamar Guy-Haim, Nur Bikem Kesici, Polytimi Ioli Lardi, Yiannis Manitaras, Nikolas Michailidis, Stefano Piraino, Jamila Rizgalla, Apostolos Siapatis, Alen Soldo, Maria Giulia Stipa, Tuba Terbiyik Kurt, Francesco Tiralongo, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Adriana Vella, Noel Vella, Bruno Zava, Vasilis Gerovasileiou

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Abstract

This Collective Article presents information about 27 taxa belonging to five Phyla (one Ochrophyta, one Cnidaria, three Arthropoda, two Mollusca and twenty Chordata) and extending from the Western Mediterranean Sea to the Levantine Sea and theBlack Sea (Sea of Marmara). The new records were reported from 11 countries as follows: Algeria: occurrence of the Africanstriped grunt Parapristipoma octolineatum; Spain: new records of eight uncommon fish species (Gadella maraldi, Hypleurochilusbananensis, Lobotes surinamensis, Parapristipoma octolineatum, Selene dorsalis, Sphoeroides marmoratus, Tetragonuruscuvieri, and Trachyrincus scabrus) from the Spanish Mediterranean; Italy: new record of the football octopus Ocythoe tuberculatafrom the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea; a rare sighting of a juvenile phase of a moray eel of the genus Gymnothorax, tentativelyidentified as Gymnothorax cf.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)627-652
Number of pages26
JournalMediterranean Marine Science
Volume22
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Oceanography
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Aquatic Science

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