Pycnogonida (Arthropoda) from the eastern Mediterranean Sea with description of a new species of Anoplodactylus

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1686 (1) ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANZ KRAPP ◽  
CENGIZ KOCAK ◽  
TUNCER KATAGAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Adult Stage ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Scuba Diving ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Northern Cyprus ◽  
A New Species

Material of Pycnogonida was collected by scuba diving and snorkelling in the eastern Mediterranean Sea from the Aegean Sea to northern Cyprus in 1995–2002; some additional samples were taken in 2006 (mainly in Gencelli Cove, Turkey). This yielded the first record of Ammothella appendiculata for the region. A. longioculata and Callipallene spectrum are newly recorded for Turkey. A hitherto undescribed and tiny species of Anoplodactylus was found. The insufficiently known adult stage of Ammothella uniunguiculata is figured by SEM photograph.

Syllis ergeni: a new species of Syllidae (Annelida: Polychaeta) from Izmir Bay (Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean Sea)

Zootaxa ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 1036 (1) ◽  
pp. 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
MELIH ERTAN ÇINAR
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Colour Pattern ◽  
Faunal Analysis ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Izmir Bay ◽  
Brown Colour ◽  
A New Species

The faunal analysis of hard bottom materials collected from Alsancak Harbour and its vicinity (Izmir Bay, Aegean Sea) revealed a new syllid species, Syllis ergeni. The species is mainly characterized by having a dark-brown colour pattern on the dorsum of anterior and middle segments, short blade falcigers, the number and morphology of aciculae, and a pigmented proventriculus and pharynx. The morphology, ecology, distribution and reproductive features of the species are explained and discussed.

On the occurrence of Lethocerus patruelis (Stål, 1855) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha: Belostomatidae) in Rhodes (eastern Mediterranean Sea)

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-14
Author(s):  
MARIA CORSINI-FOKA ◽  
GERASIMOS KONDYLATOS ◽  
IOANNA KATSOGIANNOU ◽  
KONSTANTINOS GRITZALIS ◽  
GIANNI INSACCO
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Aegean Islands

The finding in 2017 of a female of Lethocerus patruelis, a species rarely collected in the Aegean Islands, is documented from Rhodes (Greece), more than 160 years after its first record in the same island. The general distribution of the giant water bug and its occurrence in the area are briefly discussed.Keywords: Belostomatidae, giant water bug, Lethocerus patruelis, Aegean Sea, Rhodes, Greece

First record of the bivalve-inhabiting hydroid Eugymnanthea inquilina in the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Gulf of Thessaloniki, north Aegean Sea, Greece)

2002 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 851-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdalnasser Rayyan ◽  
John Christidis ◽  
Chariton C. Chintiroglou
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Mytilus Galloprovincialis ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
North Aegean ◽  
North Aegean Sea ◽  
Biological Differences

The first record of a bivalve-inhabiting hydrozoan Eugymnanthea inquilina was found in Thermaikos Gulf, north Aegean Sea, eastern Mediterranean Sea, associated with Mytilus galloprovincialis. Analyses of biometric data point the same biological differences between the Mediterranean and the Japanese Eugymnanthea, as reported by previous researchers.

A new sea-nettle from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea: Chrysaora pseudoocellata sp. nov. (Scyphozoa: Pelagiidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4790 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-244
Author(s):  
ERHAN MUTLU ◽  
I. TULAY ÇAĞATAY ◽  
M. TUNCA OLGUNER ◽  
HASAN EMRE YILMAZ
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Coi Gene ◽  
Dark Spot ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Sea Nettle ◽  
Source Populations ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Chrysaora is described from five specimens collected off Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during December 2018. The species is characterised by its pale exumbrella, milky to creamy in colour, bearing faint and narrow markings, strap-like marginal tentacles, semi-rounded to tongue-shaped lappets, and a prominent dark spot on the exumbrella above each rhopalium. Analysis of the COI gene indicates that it may be most closely related to Chrysaora africana (Vanhöffen 1902), from which it is nevertheless 10.2 % different. It is unclear whether the species represents a previously undetected and endemic species from the Mediterranean, or whether source populations are located in the Red Sea and the northern Indian Ocean. 

scholarly journals First record of the marbled ray, Dasyatis marmorata (Elasmobranchii: Dasyatidae), from Greece (central Aegean Sea)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archontia Chatzispyrou ◽  
Chrysoula Gubili ◽  
Maria Laiaki ◽  
Danai Mantopoulou-Palouka ◽  
Stefanos Kavadas
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Analysis ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Juvenile Male ◽  
Marine Research ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean Sea ◽  
First Time

Currently, seven dasyatid species have been described in the Mediterranean Sea: Bathytoshia lata, Dasyatis marmorata, Dasyatis pastinaca, Dasyatis tortonesei, Himantura uarnak, Pteroplatytrygon violacea and Taeniura grabata. Papaconstantinou (2014) listed four species of Dasyatidae occurring in Greece (P. violacea, D. pastinaca, D. tortonesei and D. centroura; the latter was a case of misidentification and it is currently identified as B. lata, according to genetic analysis). However, the marbled stingray (D. marmorata) was not amongst them. Here, the presence of D. marmorata was examined for the first time in Greece. The present study provides updated information on the geographical distribution of D. marmorata in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. A juvenile male stingray was captured in February 2019, during an onshore survey in Maliakos Gulf, located in the central Aegean Sea, Greece. The ray was examined at the Fisheries laboratory of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) in Athens and was identified as D. marmorata. Morphological characters were recorded and DNA barcoding was applied to confirm the species identification. The combination of the two methods verified the occurrence of the marbled ray in the Greek waters. This is the first record of D. marmorata from the Aegean Sea.

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