“…The Gulf of Gabes and its associated coastal wetlands are considered highly productive areas, contributing about 40% of Tunisia's total fish production (DGPA 2015). Numerous recent studies on modern shallow-water benthic foraminifera have provided essential contributions and information on the species richness, habitat structures and evolution of coastal environments along the Tunisian coast Ben Khalifa et al, 2019;Kamoun et al, 2019Kamoun et al, , 2022aZaîbi et al, 2011Zaîbi et al, , 2016. This work has contributed to a better understanding of the evolution of the Tunisian coast, a coastal environment that has undergone significant changes over the last 6000 years due to tectonic, climatic, and anthropogenic forcing (Jedoui et al, 1998;Anzidei et al, 2011;Zaïbi et al, 2016;.…”