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New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022) (Retracted article. See vol. 24, pg. 173, 2023)

  • 1. Univ Patras, Dept Anim Prod Fisheries & Aquaculture, Mesolongion 30200, Greece
  • 2. Amer Univ Beirut, Fac Arts & Sci, Dept Biol, POB 11-0236 Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 3. Sicily Marine Ctr, Dept Integrated Marine Ecol, Stn Zool Anton Dohrn, C Villa Pace,Contrada Porticatello 29, I-98167 Messina, Italy
  • 4. Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento Biolv, I-00133 Rome, Italy
  • 5. Univ Sassari, Dept Agr, Viale Italia 39, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
  • 6. 13,Iakovou Patatsou str, CY-2362 Nicosia, Cyprus
  • 7. Hellen Ctr Marine Res, Hydrobiol Stn Rhodes, Inst Oceanog, Cos St, Rhodes 85100, Greece
  • 8. Istanbul Univ, Div Hydrobiol, Dept Biol, TR-34134 Istanbul, Turkey
  • 9. Inst Marine Biol Resources & Biotechnol CNR IRBIM, Largo Fiera Pesca, Natl Res Council, I-60125 Ancona, Italy
  • 10. SADEF, 30 Rue Stn, F-68700 Aspach Le Bas, France
  • 11. Univ Aegean, Dept Marine Sci, Univ Hill, Aegean 81100, Greece

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This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 21 taxa that belong to six Phyla: one Cnidaria, one Ctenophora, two Annelida, four Mollusca, two Arthropoda, and eleven Chordata. These records were reported from ten countries from the western to the eastern Mediterranean Sea as follows: Spain: early colonization signs of the Mar Menor lagoon by the cigar jellyfish Olindias muelleri; France: second record of the sea chub of the genus Kyphosus in French Mediterranean waters; Italy: first record of the marbled crab Pachygrapsus maurus in Sardinian waters; first records of the polychaetes Malmgrenia polypapillata and Levinsenia tribranchiata in the Tyrrhenian Sea; new record of the deep-sea squid Ancistrocheirus lesueurii in the Tyrrhenian Sea; first record of the pignosed arrowtooth eel Dysomma brevirostre in the Adriatic Sea; Tunisia: first documented record of the blue butterfish Stromateus fiatola and new record of the iconic great white shark Carcharodon carcharias in the Gulf of Gabes; Slovenia: first records of the sea slug Diaphorodoris alba and the sharpnose sevengill shark Heptranchias perlo; Montenegro: new record of the rare tope shark Galeorhinus galeus; Greece: new records of the rabbitfish Chimaera monstrosa and the electric ray Tetronarce nobiliana; first published record of the nuribranch Discodoris rosi; first record of the goblin shark Mitsukurina owstoni, unreported so far from the entire Mediterranean; Turkey: first record of the ctenophore Hormiphora plumosa at country level; first records of the anomuran decapod Munida speciosa and the Mediterranean tripodfish, Bathypterois mediterraneus from the Levantine Sea; Cyprus: first documented record of the nuribranch Scyllaea pelagica; Lebanon: first record of the killer whale Orcinus orca from the Levantine Sea.

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