Ragkousis, M., Abdelali, N., Azzurro, E., Badreddine, A., Bariche, M., Bitar, G., Crocetta, F., Denitto, F., Digenis, M., El Zrelli, R., Ergenler, A., Fortič, A., Gerovasileiou, V., Grimes, S., Katsanevakis, S., Koçak, C., Licchelli, C., Loudaros, E., Mastrototaro, F., Mavrič, B., Mavruk, S., Miliou, A., Montesanto, F., Ovalis, P., Pontes, M., Rabaoui, L., Sevi̇ngel, N., Spinelli, A., Tiralongo, F., Tsatiris, A., Turan, C., Vitale, D., Yalgin, F., Yapici, S., Zenetos, A. New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records. Mediterranean Marine Science 2020.
Abstract:
This article includes 23 new records of alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 4 Phyla (Chorda- ta, Echinodermata, Arthropoda and Mollusca), distributed from the Alboran to the Levantine Sea. Records are reported from eight countries listed from West to East as follows: Algeria: new records of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus; Spain: further spread and establishment of the sea slug Lamprohaminoea ovalis in continental shores; Tunisia: first record of the Atlantic Blue Crab Callinectes sapidus in the Gulf of Gabes; Italy: a new occurrence of the pufferfish Lagocephalus sceleratus in Northern Ioni- an waters; first record of Cephalopholis taeniops in the Ionian Sea; first record of the redlip blenny, Ophioblennius atlanticus in the Ionian Sea; Slovenia: first record of the isopod Paranthura japonica in Slovenia; Greece: first record of the molluscs Eunaticina papilla, Plocamopherus ocellatus and the fish Cheilodipterus novemstriatus; first record of the ascidian Ecteinascidia turbinata in Kriti; the long-spined sea urchin Diadema setosum in the Ionian Sea; Turkey: first record of the sea spider Ammothea hilgendor- fi; the stomatopod Cloridina cf. ichneumon; the fishes Pempheris rhomboidea from the Sea of Marmara and Paranthias furcifer from the Aegean Sea; Lebanon: new records of the fishes Arothron hispidus, Rachycentron canadum, Heniochus intermedius and Acanthurus monroviae; first record of Acanthostracion polygonius. The records of Cloridina cf. ichneumon from southern Turkey and the fish Acanthostracion polygonius from Lebanon, both being the first Mediterranean records, are noteworthy.
