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Further spread of the venomous jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spannier & Ferguson, 1990 (Rhizostomeae, Rhizostomatidae) in the western Mediterranean
The present paper documents the further spread of the venomous scyphomedusa Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spannier & Ferguson, 1990,
which first appeared in the Mediterranean off the Israeli coast in the mid-1970s. This report provides the northernmost and westernmost
record of the species in the Mediterranean—from the eastern coast of the Italian island of Sardinia—based on a new record of the species
within the Sicily Channel (Aegadian Islands) and provides evidence of its further establishment within Tunisian coastal waters.peer-reviewe