New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (March 2016)

Karachle, Paraskevi K.; Angelidis, A.; Αποστολόπουλος, Γ.; Ayas, Deniz; Ballesteros, Manuel; Bonnici, Christian; Brodersen, Maren Myrto; Castriota, Luca; Chalari, N.; Cottalorda, Jean-Michel; Crocetta, Fabio; Deidun, Alan; Đođo, Željana; Dogrammatzi, A.; Dulčić, Jakov; Fiorentino, Fabio; Gönülal, Onur; Harmelin, Jean‐Georges; Insacco, Gianni; Izquierdo-Gómez, David; Izquierdo, Andrés; Joksimović, Aleksandar; Kavadas, Stefanos; Malaquias, Manuel António E.; Madrenas, E.; Massi, D.; Micarelli, Primo; Minchin, Dan; Önal, Umur; Ovalis, Panayotis; Poursanidis, Dimitris; Siapatis, A.; Sperone, Emilio; Spinelli, Andrea; Stamouli, C.; Tiralongo, Francesco; Tunçer, Sezginer; Yağlıoğlu, Deniz; Zava, Bruno; Zenetos, Argyro

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“…R. pretiosus is distributed in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans as well as in the Mediterranean Sea (Collette et al, 2015). Several specimens of the species have been recorded in the Adriatic Sea (Bettoso & Dulcic, 1999), the Turkish Seas and the Greek Seas (Karachle et al, 2016) and along the Libyan Coast (Elbaraasi et al, 2007). Hereby, we present the first records of R. pretiosus in the Albanian waters.…”

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V. Gerovasileiou et al.: New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July, 2017)

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2017

Medit. Mar. Sci.

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This Collective Article presents information on 37 taxa belonging to 6 Phyla and extending from the western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. The new records were found in 10 countries as follows: Algeria: first reports on the presence of the fish species Lesueurigobius sanzi, L. friesii, L. suerii and Luvarus imperiali; France: first record of the alien nudibranch Godiva quadricolor; Italy: first record of an adult-sized red emperor snapper Lutjanus sebae from the southern Tyrrhenian Sea; first record of the pantropical rhodophyte Chondria curvilineata and the Lessepsian fish Siganus luridus from southern Sicily; record of a large pregnant female Dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus off Sicily; Albania: first record of the fish Ruvettus pretiosus, new records of the alien molluscs Conomurex persicus, Bursatella leachii, Dendostrea cf. folium, Fulvia fragilis and Ruditapes philippinarum and additional report of the alien bivalve Pinctada imbricata radiata; Montenegro: first record of the sea slug Thecacera pennigera in the Adriatic Sea; Greece: first record of the invasive calcarean sponge Paraleucilla magna in Greek waters; occupancy estimation of the established cryptogenic rhodophyte Ganonema farinosum, the alien crustacean Percnon gibbesi and the alien fish species Fistularia commersonii, Siganus luridus, and S. rivulatus along the Cretan coastline; first record of the alien mollusc Sticteulima lentiginosa in Greek waters suggesting a westward unintentional expansion of this species; Turkey: photographic evidence of interactions of the monk seal Monachus monachus with sea-cage farms in the Turkish Aegean Sea and first record of the yellow boxfish Ostracion cubicus in the Turkish Mediterranean; Cyprus: first records of the rare speleophilic fish Thorogobius ephippiatus and Grammonus ater in Cyprus, extending the known distribution of the latter Mediterranean endemic species eastwards; first records of the alien fish Kyphosus vaigiensis and the alien crustacean species Macrophthalmus indicus and Carupa tenuipes as well as additional records of the alien echinoderm Diadema setosum and the alien ascidian Symplegma brakenhielmi in the country; Lebanon: first report on the presence of the four alien fish species Cephalopholis taeniops, Equulites popei, Pseudupeneus prayensis and Sphoeroides pachygaster; Egypt: first record of the Lessepsian fish Synchiropus sechellensis in the Egyptian Mediterranean waters.

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V. Gerovasileiou et al.: New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July, 2017)

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2017

Medit. Mar. Sci.

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“…Such events highlight the importance of maintaining good records, close interaction between the citizen scientist and the research community, the need for accessible identification tools [such as NudiKey (Nimbs 2017)] and continued surveys of regional sea slug diversity. Indeed, some of the first observations of S. geographica in the Meditteranean were made by well-informed citizen scientists (Karachle et al 2016). Observations at Merimbula extend its southern range by an additional 330 km.…”

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“…In the Mediterranean Sea, both S. geographica and its host sea grass, Halophila stipulacea (Forsskål) Ascherson, 1867, are regarded as invasive, alien marine species (Gavagnin et al 2005;Zenetos et al 2005). Some authors believe that S. geographica is a Lessepsian migrant that entered the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal (Gavagnin et al 2005), later establishing selfperpetuating populations (Zenetos et al 2005) in Italy in 1999 (Karachle et al 2016), Turkey in 2002 (Yokes and Rudman 2004), Greece in 2002 (Mollo et al 2008) and Lebanon in 2003 (Crocetta et al 2013).…”

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Revision of the southern distribution limit for the tropical marine herbivore Syphonota geographica (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) (Heterobranchia: Aplysiidae) in a global climate change hot-spot

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2017

Australian Zoologist

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The aplysiid sea hare, Syphonota geographica has a predominantly circumtropical distribution. Over the last 15 years, it has spread throughout the eastern Mediterranean Sea where it is regarded as an alien, Lessepsian migrant. Observations from southern Europe and the Middle East illustrate the capacity of S. geographica to invade and establish populations in novel locations. Whilst historic records from the Australian east coast indicate a latitudinal distribution from northern Queensland south to Sydney, observations reported in this paper confirm that its range extends to the southern east coast, an area regarded as an important climate change hot-spot. These records not only represent an important southward shift in range, but are also the most southerly global observations for this tropical taxon. Observations from the Mediterranean and those reported here, were generated by citizen scientists, highlighting the substantial benefit of public engagement in ongoing programs that document, and monitor changes in, marine biodiversity.

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“…Independently of their vector of introduction to the central Mediterranean, twenty-two non-indigenous fish species of the above-mentioned origin have been recorded to date in Tunisia (Boussellaa et al 2016, Dailianis et al (Schembri et al 2012, Evans et al 2015, Deidun et al 2015, Gerovasileiou et al 2017, and fifteen in Italian waters too, including the presently reported U. pori (see Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al 2011, Azzurro et al 2014, Karachle et al 2016 Fraser-Brunner, 1940; and the presently reported U. pori. The above nine Lessepsian species reported from Sicily and Lampedusa represent 10% of the Lessepsian migrant fish species recorded so far in the Mediterranean (102 species up to the end of 2016; Corsini-Foka et al 2017) and this number is expected to increase, since, as assessed by Golani (2010), "once a Lessepsian migrant has arrived into the Mediterranean and established a sustainable population, there are no significant physical barriers preventing its westward dispersal".…”

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