“…, Coolia spp. and Prorocentrum lima have been observed in the Mediterranean Sea, on macrophytes and in the water column (Aligizaki & Nikolaidis, 2006 ; Ben-Gharbia et al, 2016 , 2019 ; Cohu et al, 2013 ; Meroni et al, 2018 ; Nascimento et al, 2016 ; Yan et al, 2020 ). Ostreopsis species remain the most observed in the Mediterranean: in Greece (Aligizaki & Nikolaidis, 2006 ; Aligizaki et al, 2008 ), Cyprus (Accoroni et al, 2016 ), Croatia (Pfannkuchen et al, 2012 ), Lebanon (Açaf et al, 2020 ; Saab et al, 2013 ), France (Gémin et al, 2020 ; Pavaux et al, 2021 ), Monaco (Cohu et al, 2011 ), Italy (Accoroni et al, 2015 ; Casabianca et al, 2014 ; De Virgilio et al, 2021 ; Meroni et al, 2018 ), Catalonia in Spain (Carnicer et al, 2015 ; Mangialajo et al, 2011 ), the Andalusia coast (Cagide et al, 2009 ), Egypt (Hosny & Labib, 2019 ), Tunisia (Abdennadher et al, 2017 ; Ben-Gharbia et al, 2016 , 2019 ; Hachani et al, 2018 ; Turki et al, 2006 ) and Algeria (Illoul et al, 2012 ).…”