New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2020)

This Collective Article presents information about 17 taxa belonging to four Phyla (one Cnidaria, two Arthropoda, four Mollusca, and ten Chordata) and extending from the Western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. The new records were reported from nine countries as follows: Algeria: first published records of the clingfishes Apletodon dentatus and Lepadogaster lepadogaster after 1955; France: first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in French Mediterranean waters; Italy: new records of the rare bonito Orcynopsis unicolor and the recently described nudibranch Elysia rubeni from Sicily; first records of the parasitic cirriped Sacculina eriphiae and the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Ionian Sea; first record of the nudibranch Taringa tritorquis in the Mediterranean Sea; first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in the North Ionian Sea; first documented record of the cephalopod Macrotritopus defilippi in the Adriatic Sea; Slovenia: first record of the Mediterranean endemic cryptobenthic goby Odondebuenia balearica; Montenegro: several recent occurrences of the critically endangered bull ray Aetomylaeus bovinus in the South-eastern Adriatic Sea; Greece: records of the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea; new record of the occurrence of the Mediterranean spearfish Tetrapturus belone from Greece (Rhodes Island); Turkey: recent captures of the vulnerable ocean sunfish Mola mola, caught by purse-seine, in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles; new record of the luvar Luvarus imperialis along the Aegean coast of Turkey; Cyprus: first record of the habitat-forming hydroid Lytocarpia myriophyllum, often in considerable densities; first confirmed record of the agujon needlefish Tylosurus imperialis; Syria: first record of the decapod Ethusa mascarone

New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2020)

Gerovasileiou, Vasilis/0000-0002-9143-7480WOS: 000563186800006This Collective Article presents information about 17 taxa belonging to four Phyla (one Cnidaria, two Arthmpoda, four Mollusca, and ten Chordata) and extending from the Western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. the new records were reported from nine countries as follows: Algeria: first published records of the clingfishes Apletodon dentatus and Lepadogaster lepadogaster after 1955; France: first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in French Mediterranean waters; Italy: new records of the rare bonito Orcynopsis unicolor and the recently described nudibranch Elysia rubeni from Sicily; first records of the parasitic cirriped Sacculina enphiae and the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Ionian Sea; first record of the nudibranch Taringa tritoriquis in the Mediterranean Sea; first record of the tripletail Lobotes surinamensis in the North Ionian Sea; first documented record of the cephalopod Macrotritopus defihppi in the Adriatic Sea; Slovenia: first record of the Mediterranean endemic cryptobenthic goby Odondebuenia balearica; Montenegro: several recent occurrences of the critically endangered bull ray Aetomylaeus bovinus in the South-eastern Adriatic Sea; Greece: records of the nudibranch Dondice trainitoi in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea; new record of the occurrence of the Mediterranean spearlish Tetrapturus belone from Greece (Rhodes Island); Turkey: recent captures of the vulnerable ocean sunfish Mold mola, caught by purse-seine, in the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles; new record of the luvar Luvarus imperialis along the Aegean coast of Turkey; Cyprus: first record of the habitat-forming hydroid Lytocarpia ntyriophyllum, often in considerable densities; first confirmed record of the agujon needlefish Tylosurus imperialis; Syria: first record of the decapod Ethusa mascarone.European Fisheries Fund 2007-2013; European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2014-2020; national resources of the Republic of CyprusVasilis Gerovasileiou would like to thank Argyro Zenetos and all reviewers for sharing their time, knowledge, and expertise during the review process of all sub-sections of this Collective Article. Paolo Guidetti thanks very much Mr. Tony Dalmasso and Mme Celine Casamata (Maritime Fishing and Aquaculture Departmental Committee of Maritime Alps -CDPMEM, France) for precious information provided about the capture of Lobotes surinamensis in France. Gianni Insacco and Bruno Zava are grateful to Mr. Marco Schifitto, owner of the fishing boat "Nettuno 3SRI006", for his prompt information and for the Orcynopsis unicolor specimen that he provided. Andrea Lombardo and Giuliana Marletta are grateful to Leopoldo Moro for his suggestions on the manuscript concerning Taringa tritorquis. Cataldo Licchelli and Francesco Denitto would like to thank Riccardo Giannotta, the local fisher who shared data and information about the Lobotes surinamensis record from Italy. Giambattista Bello and Angelo Vazzana thank an anonymous referee for his suggestions. Ilija Cetkovic and Ana Pesic are thankful to the local fishers Vaso Kostic and Milan Milic for providing photos and other data. Dimitris Poursanidis and Fabio Crocetta thank Manolis Darakis (Greece) for sharing data on Dondice trainitoi. Maria Corsini-Foka, Gianni Insacco and Bruno Zava thank Mr Tsetin Karaosman, the captain of the fishing vessel "Evagelistra", who provided information on the capture of the reported Tetrapturus belone specimen from Rhodes. the same authors also warmly thank two reviewers for providing suggestions that greatly improved the first version of the manuscript. Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Carlos Jimenez and Ioannis Thasitis would like to thank Antonis Petrou, Katerina Achilleos, Magdalene Papatheodoulou, Louis Hadjioannou and the captain and crew of the R/V Megalohari for their help during collecting and sorting haul samples. the MEDITS survey in Cyprus was conducted by the Department of Fisheries and Marine Research under the EU Data Collection Framework, co-funded by the European Fisheries Fund 2007-2013, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) 2014-2020 and national resources of the Republic of Cyprus