Dragičević, Branko, Anadoli, Olga, Angel, Dror, Benabdi, Mouloud, Bitar, Ghazi, Castriota, Luca, Crocetta, Fabio, Deidun, Alan, Dulčić, Jakov, Edelist, Dor, Gerovasileiou, Vasilis, Giacobbe, Salvatore, Goruppi, Alenka, Guy-Haim, Tamar, Konstantinidis, Evangelos, Kuplik, Zafrir, Langeneck, Joachim, Macali, Armando, Manitaras, Ioannis, Michailidis, Nikolas, Michaloudi, Evangelia, Ovalis, Panayotis, Perdikaris, Costas, Pillon, Roberto, Piraino, Stefano, Renda, Walter, Rizgalla, Jamila, Spinelli, Andrea, Tempesti, Jonathan, Tiralongo, Francesco, Tirelli, Valentina, Tsiamis, Konstantinos, Turan, Cemal, Uygur, Necdet, Zava, Bruno, Zenetos, Argyro, Dragicevic, B., Anadoli, O., Angel, D., Benabdi, M., Bitar, G., Castriota, L., Crocetta, F., Deidun, A., Dulcic, J., Edelist, D., Gerovasileiou, V., Giacobbe, S., Goruppi, A., Guy-Haim, T., Konstantinidis, E., Kuplik, Z., Langeneck, J., Macali, A., Manitaras, I., Michailidis, N., Michaloudi, E., Ovalis, P., Perdikaris, C., Pillon, R., Piraino, S., Renda, W., Rizgalla, J., Spinelli, A., Tempesti, J., Tiralongo, F., Tirelli, V., Tsiamis, K., Turan, C., Uygur, N., Zava, B., Zenetos, A., Deniz Bilimleri ve Teknolojisi Fakültesi -- Deniz Bilimleri Bölümü, Denizcilik Meslek Yüksekokulu -- Sualtı Teknolojisi Bölümü, Turan, Cemal, and Uygur, Necdet
WOS: 000504749700017, This paper is a collection of novel distributional records of 20 species belonging to 8 phyla (Chlorophyta, Rhodophyta, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda and Chordata) from 11 Mediterranean countries, namely, Spain: an additional record of the Canary dentex Dentex canariensis is reported from Spain (Valencia), this is the northernmost record of this species in the Mediterranean; Algeria: the first documented record of Caulerpa chemnitzia is reported from the Algerian coast; France: the first record of the Spotted sea hare Aplysia dactylomela is reported from the eastern coast of Corsica; Italy: the first records of the Lessepsian polychaete Dorvillea similis and the alien bivalve Isognomon legumen are reported from Italian waters while additional records of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the south Adriatic are provided; Libya: the first record of an alien mollusc Crepidula fornicata is reported from Libyan waters; Malta: multiple sightings of gelatinous species Apolemia uvaria, Phacellophora camtschatica and Physophora hydrostatica are reported for the first time from Maltese waters, as well as the first tentative record of the Orange-spotted grouper Epinephelus cfr. coioides; Greece: an occurrence of a rare Bigeye thresher shark Alopias superciliosus is reported from Hellenic Ionian waters, while the first records of the alien Mertens' prawn-goby Vanderhorstia mertensi, the recently described cyclopoid copepod Oithona davisae and the alien red seaweed Asparagopsis armata are reported from the Aegean Sea. The presence of the micromollusc Euthymella colzumensis is confirmed for Greece; Cyprus: the first record of the red cornetfish Fistularia petimba is reported from Cyprus; Turkey: the first record of the alien jellyfish Marivagia stellata is reported from south-eastern Turkey; Israel: the first records of the sea nettle Chrysaora sp. in the Levant are reported., International Ocean Institute (IOI); Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) [IP-2016-06-5251]; Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia; Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences; GoJelly project-EU Horizon 2020 [774499], Langeneck J. and Tempesti J. are grateful to M. El-Metwally and J. Ferrario for providing Red Sea specimens of D. similis, and to M. Lezzi for his support in the preparation of permanent slides. Deidun A. and Piraino S. wish to thank Mr. Pete Bullen (www.oceanfoto.co.uk), Roy Davidson, Hans Messler, Alexander Ferrante and Lyndsey Bee for making their photographs of the three gelatinous species in caption available to the authors, as well as to the International Ocean Institute (IOI) for sponsoring the Spot the Jellyfish campaign since 2010. Thanks are also due to Andre C. Morandini (Brasil) for supporting advice on P. camtschatica identification. Deidun A. and Zava B. are indebted to the angler Romario Pace for donating the photo of the fish individual reported hereunder. Dragicevic B. and Dulcic J. are thankful to Mr. Nikola Cvitan who provided photographs and videos of the specimen as well as additional information. Their work was partly supported by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ) under project IP-2016-06-5251. Tirelli V. and Goruppi A. wish to thank the citizen scientists for providing sightings and photographic material through avvistAPP (Michele Cravati, V. D., Vincenzo Frezza, S. I., R. M., S. M., I. T. and C. V.) and the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia for funding the NOCE di MARE project. Michailidis N. and Manitaras I. thank fishmonger George Karamanos and fisher Christos Efrem for providing the specimen and information on its catch. Edelist D., Kuplik Z., Guy-Haim T. and Angel D. thank Dror Gilat and Inbar Margulis for recording and sharing their observations, and Mark J Gibbons, Andre C Morandini and Stefano Piraino for their useful taxonomic contributions. "Medusot Baam" is funded by the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, as well as the GoJelly project -EU Horizon 2020 grant No 774499.