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1. Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge

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Carlos Navarro-Barranco, Alejandro Martínez, Juan Sempere-Valverde, Sahar Chebaane, Markos Digenis, Wanda Plaitis, Eleni Voultsiadou, and Vasilis Gerovasileiou

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Crustacea, biodiversity, benthic ecology, stygobionts, biogeography, Mediterranean Sea, Biology (General), QH301-705.5
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Marine and anchialine caves host specialized faunal communities with a variable degree of endemism and functional specialization. However, biodiversity assessments on this habitat are scarce, particularly in relation to small-sized cryptic fauna (such as amphipods), which often play a key role in benthic ecosystems. The present article compiles all records of marine and brackish-water amphipods inhabiting marine and anchialine caves along the Mediterranean basin, combining information extracted from a literature review with newly acquired records. A total of 106 amphipod species has been reported (representing approximately 20% of the Mediterranean amphipod species), mostly from the North-Western Mediterranean. Examination of new material from marine caves in Greece has yielded 14 new records from the East Ionian and Aegean Sea. Most of the reported species display wide ecological amplitude in terms of habitat and substrate preferences, feeding habits as well as bathymetric and geographical distribution. In contrast, only 17 amphipod species have been reported from marine-brackish waters in anchialine caves, predominantly represented by cave specialists with a narrow spatial distribution and distinct morphological traits. Our overall knowledge on amphipods inhabiting Mediterranean caves is far from complete so that new and valuable findings are expected to occur as new caves are explored.

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2023
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2. Comparative Study of Marine Cave Communities in a Protected Area of the South-Eastern Aegean Sea, Greece

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Markos Digenis, Christos Arvanitidis, Thanos Dailianis, and Vasilis Gerovasileiou

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dark habitats, benthic communities, photoquadrats, visual census, scientific diving, Marine Protected Area, Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering, VM1-989, Oceanography, GC1-1581
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Although more than 600 marine caves have been recorded so far along the Greek coasts of the Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean), only a few have been systematically studied for their biodiversity. In this study, the benthic communities of six marine caves within a Protected Area of South-Eastern Aegean were studied for the first time, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The association of different geomorphological and topographical factors of the caves with the benthic community structure was investigated. A total of 120 photographic quadrats covering the entrance and semi-dark cave zones were analysed, with regard to coverage and taxon abundance, while motile taxa were qualitatively recorded by visual census. The ecological quality status of the caves was also assessed under an ecosystem-based approach. In total, 81 sessile and 45 motile taxa were recorded, including 12 protected and 10 non-indigenous species. Multivariate community analysis demonstrated that the geomorphological and topographical variables of the caves are significantly associated with the observed biotic patterns. The ecological quality of the caves was assessed as poor or moderate according to the CavEBQI index, highlighting the necessity for systematic monitoring. This study paves the way for similar studies in marine cave habitats aiming at the development of management and conservation actions.

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2022
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3. Rarely Reported Cryptobenthic Fish in Marine Caves of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

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Michail Ragkousis, Markos Digenis, Marcelo Kovačić, Stelios Katsanevakis, and Vasilis Gerovasileiou

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cryptobenthic fish, marine caves, cryptic habitats, mobile species, visual census, Pisces, Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering, VM1-989, Oceanography, GC1-1581
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Data on the distribution and ecology of cryptobenthic fish of marine caves in the Mediterranean Sea are extremely scarce but necessary for scientists and marine managers alike in order to understand these fish’s ecological role and assess their conservation status. Broadscale surveys by implementing underwater visual census and photographic sampling in marine caves of the northeastern Mediterranean Sea, within different expeditions during the last 5 years, brought to light new records of eight rarely reported cryptobenthic fish species. To a smaller extent, complementary citizen science data from diving professionals of Crete were used to fill distribution gaps. A total of 36 new records (66 individuals) from 18 marine caves and caverns of the Aegean and northeastern Levantine Seas were assembled, belonging to the gobies Corcyrogobius liechtensteini, Didogobius splechtnai, Gammogobius steinitzi, and Thorogobius ephippiatus, the blenny Microlipophrys nigriceps, the tripterygiid Tripterygion melanurum, the speleophilic bythitid Grammonus ater, and the gobiesocid Lepadogaster cf. lepadogaster. The above species have been rarely reported from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with D. splechtnai and G. steinitzi being recorded for the first and second time from Greek waters, respectively, while L. cf. lepadogaster constitutes the second record of a clingfish species in a marine cave of the Aegean Sea. Interesting behavioral and ecological habits were also noted for some species, based on in situ observations and photographic evidence. Our study contributes to filling gaps in the knowledge of cave fish diversity and demonstrates that cryptobenthic mobile species in understudied cryptic habitats are more common than previously thought in the Mediterranean Sea.

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2021
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5. Gourgouthakas 2022: report of the cave expedition of LOC1, Crete, Greece

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Yorgos Sotiriadis, Markos Vaxevanopoulos, Alexandros Mariolis, Katerina Vasilopoulou, Kostas Adamopoulos, Markos Digenis, Giorgos Aggelopoulos, Savvas Paragkamian, Vasilis Pantelios, Michalis Tsopelas, and Katerina Ahaka Chalabardaki

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topography, deep cave, pothole, caving, speleology, expedition
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Gourgouthakas cave (LOC1 code name) is located at an altitude of 1550m, in the area of Atzines or Atzinolakas, on the northern side of Lefka Ori (White Mountains) of Crete, Greece. It is among the two deepest caves in Greece and the 50 deepest in the world, reaching a depth of 1100m. Gourgouthakas cave was found during the French caving expedition “Lefka Ori 1981” of the Speleological Society of Plantaurel (SSP) and its explorations began in the 1990s by the Speleo Group Catamaran. The cave was explored and mapped to its current depth during an international expedition that was held in 1998, while the last expedition was held in 2001. Herein, the “Gourgouthakas 2022” expedition, a joined effort from 40 speleologists from 12 speleological clubs of Greece, which took place 21 years since the last one (SELAS-SPOK expedition, 2001), is reported. Through this expedition we aimed at mapping the cave with advanced contemporary tools to create a more detailed mapping, scuba cave diving at the first siphon at the depth of 678m, scientific sampling for geological and biological research and gathering the speleological community of Greece. The expedition was held in two phases. During the first phase (9 days), the speleologists set the basecamp, rigged the cave with new materials until the second bivouac at -649m, and installed the telecommunications in the cave. At the second phase (16 days), the cave was rigged, photographed, mapped and lithostratigraphically studied until the second siphon at the depth of 1100m.Macroinvertebrates and microbes were sampled from 7 and 9 different stations respectively, while water samples were collected from 5 different stations for eDNA metagenome analysis. Several faults were recorded from the entrance to the deepest part of the cave with the stratigraphic column constituted, from top to bottom, by Triassic to Jurassic Trypali unit with mainly recrystallized marble (entrance to -522m), Plattenkalk unit with a thin layer of Oligocene metaflysch (-522m to -850m), partly marbled limestone (-850m to -900m) and Plattenkalk unit with several siliceous concretions (-900m to -1100m). In total, 52 macroinvertebrate individuals belonging to more than 7 different troglobiont taxa were sampled, with a new species of niphargid amphipod being described, while more than 200 stains of microbes were cultivated from the scraped collected samples. This expedition provided the opportunity to many speleologists to experience the acclimatization and demands of deep cave exploration and set the basis for subsequent expeditions in the area in many years to come.

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2023
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6. Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species

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Michail, Ragkousis, Argyro, Zenetos, Jamila Ben Souissi, Razy, Hoffman, Raouia, Ghanem, Ergün, Taşkın, Mihaela, Muresan, Evgeniia, Karpova, Elena, Slynko, Ertan, Dağlı, Ana, Fortič, Victor, Surugiu, Vesna, Mačić, Domen, Trkov, Wafa Rjiba Bahri, Konstantinos, Tsiamis, Ramos-Espla, Alfonso A., Slavica, Petović, Jasmine, Ferrario, Agnese, Marchini, Renato, Sconfietti, Izdihar, Ammar, Alaa, Alo, Dori, Edelist, Tatiana, Begun, Adrian, Teaca, Gokhan, Tari, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Karachle, Paraskevi K., Aikaterini, Dogrammatzi, Apostolopoulos, Giorgos A., Fabio, Crocetta, Eleni, Kytinou, Markos, Digenis, Grigorios, Skouradakis, Fiona, Tomas, Michel, Bariche, Alexandros, Kaminas, Kassiani, Konida, Alan, Deidun, Alessio, Marrone, Simonetta, Fraschetti, Vesselina, Mihneva, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla, Morri, Vasilis, Gerovasileiou, Lovrenc, Lipej, Maria, Sini, Luisa, Mangialajo, Maria, Zotou, Marius, Skolka, Ernesto, Azzurro, Adriana, Vella, Thanos, Dailianis, Panos, Grigoriou, Carlos, Jimenez, Konstantinos, Tsirintanis, Georgios, Oikonomidis, Emanuele, Mancini, Orestis, Papadakis, Vincenzo Di Martino, Giorgos, Chatzigeorgiou, Mohamed Mourad Ben Amor, Emmanouela, Vernadou, Yaprak, Arda, Vasileios, Minasidis, Annalisa, Azzola, Louis, Hadjioannou, Monica, Montefalcone, Yacopo, Baldacchino, Bessy, Stancanelli, Andrea, Bonifazi, Anna, Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Sonia, Smeraldo, Julian, Evans, Gerasimos, Kondylatos, Manuela, Falautano, Luca, Castriota, Aggelos, Lamprou, Jamila, Rizgalla, Borut, Mavrič, Evangelos, Papadimitriou, Kersting, Diego K., Schembri, Patrick J., Faten, Khamassi, Athanasios, Nikolaou, Enric, Ballesteros, Charalampos, Dimitriadis, María, García, Athanasios, Anastasiadis, Stefanos, Kalogirou, Melina, Nalmpanti, María, Altamirano, Daniele, Grech, Dimitrios, Mavrouleas, Noel, Vella, Sandra Agius Darmanin, Branko, Dragičević, Dimitris, Poursanidis, Alexandros, Tsatiris, Maria, Corsini-Foka, Martina, Orlando-Bonaca, Gianni, Insacco, Alexandros, Tsalapatis, Danilo, Scannella, Tiralongo, Francesco, Jana, Verdura, Sergio, Vitale, Michail-Aggelos, Valsamidis, Hocein, Bazairi, Anna Maria Mannino, Riccardo, Virgili, Fabio Collepardo Coccia, Radhouan El Zrelli, Savvas, Nikolidakis, Lotfi Jilani Rabaoui, Sercan, Yapıcı, Jeanne, Zaoual, Bruno, Zava, Neophytos, Agrotis, Murat, Bilecenoglu, Melih Ertan Çinar, Moraitis, Manos L., Albano, Paolo G., Nassir, Kaddouri, Ioanna, Kosma, Fabio, Falsone, Valentina, Fossati, Michele Luca Geraci, Leon Lojze Zamuda, Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Antonis, Petrou, Vasilis, Resaikos, İlker, Aydın, Batjakas, Ioannis E., Bos, Arthur R., Najib El Ouamari, Giovanni, Giallongo, Kampouris, Thodoros E., Khadija Ounifi-Ben Amor, Alper, Doğan, Jakov, Dulčić, Emine Şükran Okudan, Gil, Rilov, Rosso, Maria Antonietta, Laura, Royo, Mohamed, Selfati, Martina, Gaglioti, Sylvaine, Giakoumi, Vasiliki, Kousteni, Dragoș, Micu, Mircea, Nicoară, Sotiris, Orfanidis, Magdalene, Papatheodoulou, Jonathan, Tempesti, Maria, Triantaphyllou, Theodora, Tsourou, Ferhat, Yalgın, Emanuel, Baltag, Hasan, Cerim, Halit, Filiz, Georgiadis, Constantinos G., Paschalis, Papadamakis, Dimitra Lida Rammou, Manuela Diana Samargiu, Sciuto, Francesco, Mauro, Sinopoli, Ali, Türker, Antonia, Chiarore, Laura, Tamburello, Sahar, Karray, and Bilel Hassen and Stelios Katsanevakis

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invasive alien species, Ecology, geo-referenced records, Black Sea, distribution, Mediterranean Sea, non-indigenous, non-native species, non-indigenous, distribution, invasive alien species, geo-referenced records, Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, non-native species, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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To enrich spatio-temporal information on the distribution of alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, a collective effort by 173 marine scientists was made to provide unpublished records and make them open access to the scientific community. Through this effort, we collected and harmonized a dataset of 12, 649 records. It includes 247 taxa, of which 217 are Animalia, 25 Plantae and 5 Chromista, from 23 countries surrounding the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Chordata was the most abundant taxonomic group, followed by Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Annelida. In terms of species records, Siganus luridus, Siganus rivulatus, Saurida lessepsianus, Pterois miles, Upeneus moluccensis, Charybdis (Archias) longicollis, and Caulerpa cylindracea were the most numerous. The temporal distribution of the records ranges from 1973 to 2022, with 44% of the records in 2020–2021. Lethrinus borbonicus is reported for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea, while Pomatoschistus quagga, Caulerpa cylindracea, Grateloupia turuturu, and Misophria pallida are first records for the Black Sea ; Kapraunia schneideri is recorded for the second time in the Mediterranean and for the first time in Israel ; Prionospio depauperata and Pseudonereis anomala are reported for the first time from the Sea of Marmara. Many first country records are also included, namely: Amathia verticillata (Montenegro), Ampithoe valida (Italy), Antithamnion amphigeneum (Greece), Clavelina oblonga (Tunisia and Slovenia), Dendostrea cf. folium (Syria), Epinephelus fasciatus (Tunisia), Ganonema farinosum (Montenegro), Macrorhynchia philippina (Tunisia), Marenzelleria neglecta (Romania), Paratapes textilis (Tunisia), and Botrylloides diegensis (Tunisia).

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2023

7. New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (December 2022)

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FEDERICA MONTESANTO, MARCO ALBANO, DΕΝΙΖ AYAS, FEDERICO BETTI, GIOELE CAPILLO, MELIH ERTAN ÇINAR, MARIA CORSINI-FOKA, FABIO CROCETTA, ERTAN DAĞLI, CLAUDIO D’IGLIO, MARKOS DIGENIS, BRANKO DRAGIČEVIĆ, SERGIO FAMULARI, DENIZ ERGÜDEN, ANTONIO GIOVA, VALENTINA GIUSSANI, RAZY HOFFMAN, IGOR ISAJLOVIĆ, LOVRENC LIPEJ, RAQUEL LÓPEZ-ESCLAPEZ, FRANCESCO MASTROTOTARO, ALESSANDRA MORENI, VICTOR ORENES-SALAZAR, PANAYOTIS OVALIS PANAYOTIS OVALIS, WANDA PLAITI, JUAN A. PUJOL, LOTFI RABAOUI, IOANNIS RALLIS, MANJA ROGELJA, SERENA SAVOCA, GRIGORIOS SKOURADAKIS, FRANCESCO TIRALONGO, MARGHERITA TOMA, DOMEN TRKOV, NICOLAS UBERO-PASCAL, LAMIA YACOUBI, FERHAT YALGIN, SERCAN YAPICI, LEON L. ZAMUDA, MÜ, Su Ürünleri Fakültesi, Su Ürünleri Temel Bilimleri Bölümü, and Yapıcı, Sercan

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Environmental Engineering, Phyla, Aquatic Science, biodiversity, rare species, Mediterranean sea, Oceanography, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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This Collective Article presents information on 20 taxa belonging to five (5) Phyla: Cnidaria (2), Mollusca (8), Arthropoda (4), Echinodermata (1) and Chordata (5) recorded from the Alboran Sea to the Levantine Sea. These new records were found in seven (7) different ecoregions as follows: Alboran Sea: new record of the rare football octopus Ocythoe tuberculata in the harbour of Algeciras (Spain) ; Western Mediterranean Sea: first record of the isopod Arcturinella deltensis in the Ligurian Sea, and the third 969Medit. Mar. Sci., 23/4 2022, 968-994in the whole Mediterranean Sea ; third Mediterranean site for the MuricidaeCoralliophila ahuiri along the Italian coasts (Alghe-ro) ; first and westernmost record of the goby Corcyrogobius liechtensteini from the Iberian Peninsula ; new record of the sea slug Glaucus atlanticus from the coast of the Iberian Peninsula ; first and easternmost record of Holothuria (Vaneyothuria) lentiginosa lentiginosa along the Italian coasts ; Tunisian Plateau/Gulf of Sidra: seventh record of the oceanic squid Thysanoteuthis rhombusin Tunisia, and first for the Gulf of Gabes. Ionian Sea: second occurrence of the Atlantic tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in the Ionian Sea and first record from the Strait of Messina area ; new record of the rare sea elephant Pterotrachea coronata from the Strait of Messina ; Adriatic Sea: first record of a facies of football ascidian Diazona violacea in the South Adriatic Sea (Tremiti Island, Italy) ; two records of the sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo in Croatian waters after more than 70 years of absence of documented records in this area ; first known occurrence of the nudibranch Jalonus hyalinus in Slovenian waters and also the first known occurrence of this species in the Adriatic Sea ; first record of the nudibranch Okenia elegans in Slovenian waters ; Aegean Sea: First record of the parasitic isopod Nerocila milesensis along Greek coasts (Crete island) as well as the second record world-wide ; additional record of the brachyuran Paragalene longicrura collected from the Saronikos Gulf (Greece) ; first record of the siphonophore Rhizophysa filiformis in Greek waters as well as the second record of this species in the eastern Mediterranean basin ; new record of the rare and protected angelshark Squatina aculeata along Turkish coasts ; Levantine Sea: first record of the marine amphipod Caprella andreae in the Levantine Mediterranean shore of Israel, based on both morphological and molecular data ; first occurrence of the cephalopod Tremoctopus violaceus along Turkish coasts, which confirms its presence in the north-eastern coasts of Turkey ; record of a bloom of the thermophilic jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in the north Levantine Sea.

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2022

10. 'New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea' (October 2021)

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Tamar Guy-Haim, Jakov Dulčić, Bruno Zava, Roberto Cacciamani, Francesco Tiralongo, Sara A. A. Al Mabruk, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Ernesto Azzurro, Adriana Vella, Fabio Crocetta, Rigers Bakiu, Maria Corsini-Foka, Yiannis Manitaras, Noel Vella, Nur Bikem Kesici, Polytimi Lardi, Stefano Piraino, Filippo Domenichetti, Cem Dalyan, Pietro Battaglia, Furkan Durucan, Sandra Agius Darmanin, Markos Digenis, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Diego Borme, Nikolas Michailidis, Nicholas Badouvas, Michel Bariche, Alen Soldo, K. Tsagarakis, Federico Betti, Branko Dragičević, Maria Giulia Stipa, Rocco Auriemma, Alan Deidun, Jamila Rizgalla, Tuba Terbiyik Kurt, A. Siapatis, Federico Calì, Tsagarakis, K., Darmanin, S. A., Al Mabruk, S. A. A., Auriemma, R., Azzurro, E., Badouvas, N., Bakiu, R., Bariche, M., Battaglia, P., Betti, F., Borme, D., Cacciamani, R., Cali, F., Corsini-Foka, M., Crocetta, F., Dalyan, C., Deidun, A., Digenis, M., Domenichetti, F., Dragicevic, B., Dulcic, J., Durucan, F., Guy-Haim, T., Kesici, N. B., Lardi, P. -I., Manitaras, Y., Michailidis, N., Piraino, S., Rizgalla, J., Siapatis, A., Soldo, A., Stipa, M. G., Kurt, T. T., Tiralongo, F., Tsiamis, K., Vella, A., Vella, N., Zava, B., Gerovasileiou, V., Tsagarakis, K, Agius Darmanin, S, Al Mabruk, SAA, Auriemma, R, Azzurro, E, Badouvas, N, Bakiu, R, Bariche, M, Battaglia, P, Betti, F, Borme, D, Cacciamani, R, Cali, F, Corsini-Foka, M, Crocetta, F, Dalyan, C, Deidun, A, Digenis, M, Domenichetti, F, Dragicevic, B, Dulcic, J, Durucan, F, Guy-Haim, T, Kesici, NB, Lardi, PL, Manitaras, Y, Michailidis, N, Piraino, S, Rizgalla, J, Siapatis, A, Soldo, M, Stipa, MG, Terbiyik Kurt, T, Tiralongo, F, Tsiamis, K, Vella, A, Vella, N, Zava, B, and Gerovasileiou, V

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Environmental Engineering, Arthropoda -- Mediterranean Sea, Rare species, new records, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Phyla (Genus) -- Mediterranean Sea, alien species, Mediterranean Sea, Ochrophyta -- Mediterranean Sea, Cnidaria -- Mediterranean Sea, Chordata -- Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean sea, Geography, Introduced organisms -- Mediterranean Sea, Biodiversity -- Mediterranean Sea, Alien species - new records - rare species - Mediterranean Sea, 14. Life underwater, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sponges -- Mediterranean Sea, biodiversity, records, Mediterranean Sea, rare species
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This Collective Article presents information about 27 taxa belonging to five Phyla (one Ochrophyta, one Cnidaria, three Arthropoda, two Mollusca and twenty Chordata) and extending from the Western Mediterranean Sea to the Levantine Sea and the Black Sea (Sea of Marmara). The new records were reported from 11 countries as follows: Algeria: occurrence of the African striped grunt Parapristipoma octolineatum; Spain: new records of eight uncommon fish species (Gadella maraldi, Hypleurochilus bananensis, Lobotes surinamensis, Parapristipoma octolineatum, Selene dorsalis, Sphoeroides marmoratus, Tetragonurus cuvieri, and Trachyrincus scabrus) from the Spanish Mediterranean; Italy: new record of the football octopus Ocythoe tuberculata from the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea; a rare sighting of a juvenile phase of a moray eel of the genus Gymnothorax, tentatively identified as Gymnothorax cf. unicolor in the Ligurian Sea; first record of adult Facciola’s sorcerer Facciolella oxyrhynchus in the Adriatic Sea; occurrence of the tope shark Galeorhinus galeus in the Northern Adriatic Sea; Libya: first confirmed record of the pen shell Pinna rudis; first documented record of the palaemonid shrimp Brachycarpus biunguiculatus; first record of the fish Sudis hyalina; Malta: new records of Grant’s rockling, Gaidropsarus granti; multiple concomitant reports of the rare hydro-medusan species Aequorea forskalea; Croatia: a record of the skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis in the Southern Adriatic Sea; Albania: new record of the bigeye thresher shark Alopias superciliosus; Greece: confirmation of the rare brown alga Sargassum flavifolium occurrence in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea; first record of the scaleless dragonfish Bathophilus nigerrimus; Turkey: first occurrence of the calanoid copepod Pteriacartia josephinae in the Aegean Sea; first documented record of the Cremona’s sea slug Placida cremoniana for the easternmost Mediterranean Sea; new record of the yellow-headed goby Gobius xanthocephalus in the Sea of Marmara; Cyprus: first record of the Liechtenstein’s goby Corcyrogobius liechtensteini; an individual of the Yellow-fin tuna Thunnus albacares captured with handline by an artisanal fisher; Lebanon: an individual of the Black marlin Istiompax indica captured in a gill net., peer-reviewed

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2021
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11. Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species

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Maria Zotou, Hasan Cerim, Rossana Sanfilippo, Luca Castriota, Monica Montefalcone, Pierre Noel, Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Alice Lodola, Mohamed Mourad Ben Amor, Jorge Terrados, Mohamed Hédi Ktari, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Konstantinos Tsirintanis, Vincenzo Di Martino, Julian Evans, Ernesto Azzurro, Françoise Monniot, Gérard Pergent, Emna Soufi-Kechaou, Sercan Yapıcı, Domen Trkov, Anna Maria Mannino, Ante Žunec, Alan Deidun, Jamila Rizgalla, Joseph A. Borg, Joaquim Garrabou, Antonietta Rosso, Ana Fortič, Maïa Fourt, Ali Türker, Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Nikos Doumpas, Stelios Katsanevakis, Charalampos Dimitriadis, Murat Bilecenoglu, Soultana Tsioli, Dimitrios Damalas, Paraskevi K. Karachle, Markos Digenis, Fiona Tomas, Gianni Insacco, Free Espinosa, Periklis Kleitou, Shevy B.S. Rothman, Manuela Falautano, Arthur R. Bos, Ergün Taşkın, Hocein Bazairi, Maria Sini, Ioanna Kosma, Patrick J. Schembri, Jorge Santamaría, Dimitris Poursanidis, Miraine Rizzo, Grigorios Skouradakis, Demetris Kletou, Melih Ertan Çinar, Razy Hoffman, Luigi Piazzi, Carla Morri, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Borut Mavrič, Agnese Marchini, Michail Ragkousis, Ioannis Giovos, Halit Filiz, Francesco Tiralongo, Jonathan Tempesti, Andrés Izquierdo Muñoz, Najib El Ouamari, Bruno Zava, Rym Zakhama-Sraieb, Paolo G. Albano, Omar Inglese, A. Siapatis, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Sotiris Orfanidis, Raül Golo, Angela Bartolo, C. Stamouli, Alfonso A. Ramos-Esplá, Paolo Balistreri, Yassine-Ramzi Sghaier, Mohamed Selfati, Faten Khamassi, Said Benhissoune, Fabio Crocetta, Emma Cebrian, Cristina Linares, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Khadija Ounifi Ben Amor, Jana Verdura, Christine Pergent, Marc Verlaque, Emmanouil Andriotis, Mouna Rifi, Laura Royo, Jamila Ben Souissi, Thanos Dailianis, Michel Bariche, Maria Cristina Gambi, Louis Hadjioannou, Enric Ballesteros, Raouia Ghanem, Fabio Badalamenti, Stefanos Kalogirou, Emilio Mancuso, Martina Gaglioti, Carlo Pipitone, Lovrenc Lipej, Wafa Rjiba-Bahri, Nikolas Michailidis, Carlos Jiménez, Orestis Papadakis, Jasmine Ferrario, Eleni Kytinou, Jeanne Zaouali, Joachim Langeneck, María Josefa Mosteiro García, Sami Karaa, Argyro Zenetos, Ya’arit Levitt-Barmats, Ivan Cvitković, Ege Üniversitesi, European Commission, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), AZTI - Tecnalia, American University of Beirut [Beyrouth] (AUB), Faculty of Science, Department of Biology (UNIVERSITY OF MALTA), University of Malta [Malta], Sciences pour l'environnement (SPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pascal Paoli (UPP), Dept. of 'Ecologia del Territorio', Institute of Marine Biology and Genetics, Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Physics, Cyprus University of Technology, Faculté des sciences [Rabat], Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal], Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratorio di Ecologia (CNR-IAMC), CNRS-IAMC, Laboratoire de Modélisation en Hydraulique et Environnement [Tunis] (LR-LMHE ENIT), Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM)-Université de Tunis El Manar (UTM), Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Avignon Université (AU)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Fondazione IRCCS Instituto Nazionale dei Tumori [Milan, Italy], Universidad de Alicante. 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Departamento de Zoología, Université Pascal Paoli (UPP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal] (UM5)

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Invasions biològiques -- Mediterrània (Mar), geo-referenced records, 0206 medical engineering, Non-native species, Invasive alien species, Library science, non-native species, non-indigenous, distribution, citizen science, invasive alien species, geo-referenced records, Mediterranean Sea, 02 engineering and technology, Alien, Distribution, Citizen science, 01 natural sciences, Records -- Management, Science -- Mediterranean Region, 0103 physical sciences, Agency (sociology), citizen science, distribution, Mediterranean Sea, media_common.cataloged_instance, non-indigenous, Zoología, 14. Life underwater, European union, non-indigenous species, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global environmental analysis, media_common, Biological invasions -- Mediterranean Sea, invasive alien species, 010304 chemical physics, Ecology, Settore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica, Marine reserve, non-native species, Geo-referenced records, 020601 biomedical engineering, Espècies introduïdes -- Mediterrània (Mar), Introduced organisms -- Mediterranean Sea, 13. Climate action, General partnership, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, Marine protected area, Non-indigenous, Science -- Methodology -- Case studies
Abstract

Este artículo contiene 18 páginas, 4 figuras., Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta., The publication of this article is supported by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species (INVASIVESNET; www.invasivesnet.org). Stelios Katsanevakis, Maria Sini and Konstantinos Tsirintanis were supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: HFRI-FM17-1597). Enalia Physis acknowledges Pantelis Patsalou for his support with field-logistics and links with fishers. Fiona Tomas would like to acknowledge funding from FECYT FCT- 14-9319 (¡OJO A LAS INVASORAS! BIODIVERSIDAD Y ESPECIES INVASORAS DEL MEDITERRÁNEO BALEAR). Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Thanos Dailianis and Maria Sini acknowledge the support by the MARISCA project (www.marisca.eu), co-funded (85%) by EEA GRANTS, 2009–2014, and the Public Investments Program (PIP) of the Hellenic Republic (15%). Razy Hoffman acknowledges funding by Yad-Hanadiv foundation, through the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences and Israel Nature and Parks Authority (An integrated program for establishing biological baselines and monitoring protocols for marine reserves in the Israeli Mediterranean Sea). Argyro Zenetos and Paraskevi K. Karachle would like to thank the citizenscientists collaborating with the Ellenic Network on Aquatic Invasive Species (ELNAIS – elnais.hcmr.gr). Nikolaos Doumpas, Ioannis Giovos, Periklis Kleirou and Francesco Tiralongo would like to thank all the citizen-scientists that contributed with their shared records and data in the citizen-science project “Is it alien to you? Share it!!!” (https://www.facebook.com/ groups/104915386661854/). Data from Gyaros Island marine reserve were collected under the “GyarosMPA” project, funded by “MAVA Fondation pour la Nature”. Data from Corsica coastline were mainly collected in the framework of the “Corsica Alien Network” initiated by “Office de l’Environnement de la Corse”. Carla Morri and Carlo Nike Bianchi received financial support from FFARB (funds for basic research activities) by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. Ergün Taşkın has been supported by TÜBİTAK, Ankara, Turkey (Project Number: 114Y238). The Slovenian authors would like to acknowledge their financial support from the Slovenian Research Agency (research core funding No. P1-0237) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia. Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu thanks University of Kyrenia’s Scientific Research Project numbered GRN-20191-004. Fabio Crocetta was funded by the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action TD1209 Alien Challenge project. The FRI (HAO DEMETER) team is very grateful to the Marine Strategy Project for financial support. Records of NIS in Jbel Moussa, the National Park of Al Hoceima and Cap des Trois Fourches sites from Morocco were obtained during surveys conducted within the framework of the MedKeyHabitats and the MedMPAnet Projects implemented by UNEP/MAP-RAC/SPA in close collaboration with the Haut Commissariat aux Eaux et Forêts et à la Lutte Contre la Désertification (HCEFLCD) and financially supported by RAC/SPA, Tunisia and the MAVA Foundation, Switzerland (MedKeyHabitats Project) and the European Commission (EC), the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation to Development (AECID), and the French Global Environment Facility (MedMPAnet Project). Jamila Ben Souissi was partially funded by BiodivMex /Chantier MISTRALS. Konstantinos Tsiamis sampling records were retrieved during his post in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, which he would like to thank for. Periklis Kleitou and Demetris Kletou were supported by the LIFE financial instrument of the European Union – RELIONMED project [Grant Agreement LIFE16 NAT/ CY/000832]. Some of the data included in the dataset were obtained through the marine citizen science platform Observadores del Mar www.observadoresdelmar.es with the support of FECYT FCT-17-12469, LIFE IP Intemares and Fundació Marilles, and through the citizen science site of the Italian Marine Protected Area of “Regno di Nettuno” (islands of Ischia, Procida and Vivara): www.citizensciencerdn.org. Most data from Lebanon were retrieved from social media dedicated to citizen science (Facebook group: Sea Lebanon https://www.facebook.com/ groups/109615625861815/) or fishers and scuba divers WhatsApp groups). Jamila Rizgalla wishes to thank the administration of Regatta for granting a free pass to conduct field surveys and the security personnel for providing a safe environment. Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi was supported by European Community’s Seventh Framework Program VECTORS (Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors). The long lasting collaboration with the ICES Working Group on Introductions and Transfer of Marine Organisms (WGITMO) has been a good forum where many information and ideas could be exchanged within some of the authors (Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Argyro Zenetos, Agnese Marchini, and a wider community of scientists working on biological invasions). A. Rosso and R. Sanfilippo received grants from the Catania University Research Plan 2016/2018. Data from Kuriat island were collected under the “Kuriat project”, funded by “MAVA Fondation pour la Nature” executed by SPA/RAC in partnership with the Coastal Protection and Management Agency (APAL) and Notre Grand Bleu (NGB) NGO. The AIS/ERA (Environment and Resources Authority) Maltese data were obtained from the EU funded project EMFF 8.3.1 under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund 2014–2020 with a total cost of €1.6 million in public eligible EMFF funds (75% EU 25% MT), managed by AIS/ERA (Environment and Resources Authority). The ultimate goals of this European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF 2014–2020) project are to devise a holistic approach towards marine monitoring and develop a comprehensive database of data collected about the Maltese waters., With the funding support of the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S), of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI)

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12. New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2020)

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MICHAIL RAGKOUSIS, NARDJES ABDELALI, ERNESTO AZZURRO, ALI BADREDDINE, MICHAEL BARICHE, GHAZI BITAR, FABIO CROCETTA, FRANCESCO DENITTO, MARKOS DIGENIS, RADHOUAN EL ZRELLI, AYŞEGÜL ERGENLER, ANA FORTIČ, VASILIS GEROVASILEIOU, SAMIR GRIMES, STELIOS KATSANEVAKIS, CENGIZ KOÇAK, CATALDO LICCHELLI, EVGENIOS LOUDAROS, FRANCESCO MASTROTOTARO, BORUT MAVRIČ, SINAN MAVRUK, ANASTASIA MILIOU, FEDERICA MONT

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13. New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (November 2020)

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Michail Ragkousis, Francesco Tiralongo, Ali Badreddine, Sercan Yapıcı, Francesco Denitto, Cemal Turan, Borut Mavrič, Argyro Zenetos, Radhouan El Zrelli, Ana Fortič, Andrea Spinelli, Panayotis Ovalis, Cataldo Licchelli, Michael Bariche, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Anastasia Miliou, Cengiz Koçak, Ferhat Yalgin, Dyana Vitale, Miquel Pontes, Ghazi Bitar, Samir Grimes, Evgenios Loudaros, Ayşegül Ergenler, Nail Sevingel, Federica Montesanto, Fabio Crocetta, Francesco Mastrototaro, Lofti Rabaoui, Alexandros Tsatiris, Ernesto Azzurro, Sinan Mavruk, Nardjes Abdelali, Stelios Katsanevakis, and Markos Digenis

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0303 health sciences, Environmental Engineering, Callinectes, biology, ved/biology, Cephalopholis taeniops, ved/biology.organism_classification_rank.species, Lagocephalus sceleratus, 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, biology.organism_classification, Diadema setosum, Sea slug, Fishery, 03 medical and health sciences, Geography, Mediterranean sea, 040102 fisheries, Acanthurus monroviae, 0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries, 14. Life underwater, Sea spider, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract

This article includes 23 new records of alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 4 Phyla (Chordata, 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 Ionian 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 E unaticina 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 hilgendorfi ; 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.

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