The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status

Bariche, Michel; Fricke, Ronald

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4775.1.1

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“…The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 broke a long-standing biogeographic barrier and enabled hundreds of Red Sea species to enter the basin and establish populations ( Por 1978 ; Galil 2009 ; Zenetos et al 2010 , 2017 ; Zenetos and Galanidi 2020 ). These so-called Lessepsian species are now recorded from all countries bordering this basin west to Greece ( Katsanevakis et al 2009 ; Çinar et al 2011 ; Ammar 2018 ; Zenetos et al 2018 ; Bariche and Fricke 2020 ; Crocetta et al 2020 ) and some have already reached the central Mediterranean, e.g., Tunisia (Ounifi-Ben Amor et al 2015), Italy ( Occhipinti-Ambrogi et al 2011 ), and even France ( Daniel et al 2009 ; Bodilis et al 2011 ).…”

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Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification

Albano¹,

Steger²,

Bakker³

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New data on 52 non-indigenous mollusks in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is reported. Fossarus sp. (aff. aptus sensu Blatterer 2019), Coriophora lessepsiana Albano, Bakker & Sabelli, sp. nov., Cerithiopsis sp. aff. pulvis, Joculator problematicus Albano & Steger, sp. nov., Cerithiopsis sp., Elachisina sp., Iravadia aff. elongata, Vitrinella aff. Vitrinella sp. 1 (sensu Blatterer 2019), Melanella orientalis, Parvioris aff. dilecta, Odostomia cf. dalli, Oscilla virginiae, Parthenina cossmanni, Parthenina typica, Pyrgulina craticulata, Turbonilla funiculata, Cylichna collyra, Musculus coenobitus, Musculus aff. viridulus, Chavania erythraea, Scintilla cf. violescens, Iacra seychellarum and Corbula erythraeensis are new records for the Mediterranean. An unidentified gastropod, Skeneidae indet., Triphora sp., Hypermastus sp., Sticteulima sp., Vitreolina cf. philippi, Odostomia (s.l.) sp. 1, Henrya (?) sp., and Semelidae sp. are further potential new non-indigenous species although their status should be confirmed upon final taxonomic assessment. Additionally, the status of Dikoleps micalii, Hemiliostraca clandestinacomb. nov. and H. athenamariaecomb. nov. is changed to non-indigenous, range extensions for nine species and the occurrence of living individuals for species previously recorded from empty shells only are reported. Opimaphora blattereri Albano, Bakker & Sabelli, sp. nov. is described from the Red Sea for comparison with the morphologically similar C. lessepsiana Albano, Bakker & Sabelli, sp. nov. The taxonomic part is followed by a discussion on how intensive fieldwork and cooperation among institutions and individuals enabled such a massive report, and how the poor taxonomic knowledge of the Indo-Pacific fauna hampers non-indigenous species detection and identification. Finally, the hypothesis that the simultaneous analysis of quantitative benthic death assemblages can support the assignment of non-indigenous status to taxonomically undetermined species is discussed.

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Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification

Albano¹,

Steger²,

Bakker³

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“…In fact, although P. incisus has been reported since the middle of the XIX century ( Guichenot 1850 ) in the Mediterranean basin and should have already been present in Cyprus, the fact that the fish were unknown to both observers and the local fishing community, suggests at first glance that the species has made its appearance in the area only in the recent years. However, taking into account that the species had already been recorded also from the nearby coasts of Lebanon, Syria and Turkey ( Bilecenoglu et al 2014 Bilecenoglu et al 2009 , Ali 2018 , Bariche and Fricke 2020 ), it is most likely that it was already present in the area, but overlooked until now due to its local rarity. Indeed, this taxon can show very high abundances only where subtropical habitats and warmer environmental conditions prevail (e.g.…”

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“…Within the Mediterranean, the latter two taxa have particularly received the attention of the Mediterranean scientific community. In fact, the striped piggy P. stridens is native to the Indo-Pacific and entered the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal around 1888, when it was first observed in Port-Saïd (see Carus 1983 , Bodilis et al 2013 ), subsequently colonising the eastern Mediterranean basin up to Greece and being also known from Italy on the basis of a single record ( Golani et al 2002 , Bilecenoglu et al 2009 , Kousteni et al 2019 , Servello et al 2019 , Bariche and Fricke 2020 ). Conversely, the bastard grunt P. incisus was originally described from Gambia and is widely distributed along the entire Eastern Atlantic coastline, from South Africa to Galicia ( Palacky 1895 , Gilchrist and Thompson 1908 , Osorio 1909 , Bauchot 1963 , Bodilis et al 2013 , Bañón et al 2014 ), including the Canary Islands ( Vinciguerra 1883 , Murray et al 1912 , Bianchi 1984 ), Madeira ( Günther 1859 , Andrade and Albuquerque 1935 , Ribeiro et al 2005 ) and Cape Verde Islands ( Osorio 1909 ), but it has also been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since the middle of the XIX century.…”

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The bastard grunt Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich, 1825) (Teleostei: Haemulidae) in Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea) - a late arrival or just a neglected species?

Doumpas¹,

Tanduo²,

Crocetta³

et al. 2020

BDJ

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Pomadasys incisus is a thermophilous coastal subtropical fish species belonging to the family Haemulidae. Originally described from Gambia, this species is widely distributed in the Eastern Atlantic from Galicia to South Africa. It has also been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1840, presumably expanding its distribution in the next decades, although the species could have been already present in the basin, but simply overlooked until the mid XIX century. In this study, we first record P. incisus from Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea), based on two opportunistic observations obtained through a citizen-science project and review the distribution of this species in the Mediterranean Sea. The present sighting raises the question on whether this species is a late arrival in the country or its presence has just been neglected until now. Based on present data, the most likely hypothesis is the latter one, with P. incisus occurring in low densities and being overlooked due to the absence of field studies. Whatever is true, some intrinsic or extrinsic factors may have played a role in limiting its spread or wide establishment in the above-mentioned country.

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“…As opposed to the MEDITS surveys, most of the latter information came from research programs focused on resource evaluation of the relative studied areas. Nevertheless, such data have been very useful to provide important baselines of biological diversity in the investigated area (El Sayed 1994;Golani 1996;Öztürk 1999;Mejuto et al 2002;Schembri et al 2003;Shlyakhov & Daskalov 2008;Bariche & Fricke 2020). Final reports, scientific publications, and in many cases even raw data were used for the general analysis.…”

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Species diversity, taxonomy and distribution of Chondrichthyes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea

Serena

Abella²,

Bargnesi

et al. 2020

The European Zoological Journal

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Species diversity assessments are an important step to evaluate the conservation status of a community, both in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. These assessments are pivotal if related to both, the constant increase of human pressure on ecosystems and the anthropogenic climate change occurring nowadays. Sharks and rays are globally threatened, and the situation is particularly alarming in the Mediterranean Sea where more than 50% of species are listed at risk of extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). In this paper, we revise and discuss the chondrichthyan species richness of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Through an accurate review of published taxonomic studies, historical data on species occurrence, analyses of scientific survey data and biodiversity databases and other scientific papers, we produced a revised list of species whose presence in the Mediterranean Sea is confirmed or highly probable and discussed on current taxonomic and occurrence disputes on the species that are instead rarer or claimed to be locally extinct. We listed a total of 88 species, representing 30 families and 48 genera that are currently present in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. This number includes 48 shark species, 38 batoids, and 2 chimaeras. The review represents a reference for future conservation assessments of cartilaginous fish in the region and a guide for decision-makers when promoting the sustainable exploitation of fisheries resource within an ecosystem-based framework. This paper can help to set a baseline of the Mediterranean species and thus resolve some uncertainties regarding their conservation status, explaining the reasons for their prolonged absence in the reports. Indeed, failure to record over time may not be due to grubbing up, but because after careful review this species was not really part of the Mediterranean fauna.

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The marine ichthyofauna of Lebanon: an annotated checklist, history, biogeography, and conservation status

Cited by 998 publications

References 36 publications

Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification

Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification

The bastard grunt Pomadasys incisus (Bowdich, 1825) (Teleostei: Haemulidae) in Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea) - a late arrival or just a neglected species?

Species diversity, taxonomy and distribution of Chondrichthyes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea

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