Journal Article
New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (August 2022)
FRANCESCO TIRALONGO; OKAN AKYOL; SARA A.A. AL MABRUK; PIETRO BATTAGLIA; DAMLA BETON; BANU BITLIS; JOSEPH A. BORG; MARC BOUCHOUCHA; MELIH ERTAN ÇINAR; FABIO CROCETTA; BRANKO DRAGIČEVIĆ; Jakov DULČIĆ JDULČIĆ; ATHANASIOS EVANGELOPOULOS; JULIAN JEVANS; ANA FORTIČ; ROBIN P.M. GAUFF; CONSTANTINOS G. GEORGIADIS; MEHMET GÖKOĞLU; DANIELE DANIELE GRECH; TAMAR GUY-HAIM; MEHMET FATIH HUSEYINOGLU; ANDREA LOMBARDO; GIULIANA MARLETTA; FRANCESCO MASTROTOTARO; FEDERICA MONTESANTO; FLAVIA NUNES; AYTAÇ ÖZGÜL; BILAL ÖZTÜRK; DIMITRA-LIDA RAMMOU; DANILO SCUDERI; TUBA TERBIYIK KURT; EDIGIO TRAINITO; DOMEN TRKOV; AYLIN ULMAN; VAHDET ÜNAL; XIMENA VELASQUEZ
Mediterranean Marine Science · Vol. 23, Issue 3 · pp. 725-747 · 2022
Abstract
In this Collective Article on alien and cryptogenic diversity in the Mediterranean Sea we report a total of 19 species belonging to nine Phyla and coming from nine countries. Several of these records concern fish species, and of particular interest are the first records of: Terapon puta for Italian waters; Pteragopus trispilus from Malta; Plotosus lineatus from Cyprus; and the northernmost Mediterranean record of Lagocephalus sceleratus. The northernmost Mediterranean record was also reported for the sea urchin Diadema setosum. The portunid crab Thalamita poissonii was recorded for the first time in Libya. The copepod Pseudodiaptomus marinus was recorded for the first time in the Marmara Sea. The polychaete Branchiomma luctuosum was recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean coast of France. The alien anemone Diadumene lineata was recorded for the first time from Slovenia. The macroalgae Sargassum furcatum was recorded for the first time from Italy. The new Mediterranean records here reported help tracing abundance and distribution of alien and cryptic species in the Mediterranean Sea.