New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022) (Retracted article.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

• Main Authors: KOUSTENI, V. A. S. I. L. I. K. I., ANASTASIADIS, A. T. H. A. N. A. S. I. O. S., BARICHE, M. I. C. H. E. L., BATTAGLIA, P. I. E. T. R. O., BONIFAZI, A. N. D. R. E. A., CETKOVIC, I. L. I. J. A., CHIMIENTI, G. I. O. V. A. N. N. I., COLOMBO, M. A. R. C. O., CONSTANTINOU, C. O. S. T. A. S., CORSINI-FOKA, M. A. R. I. A., DALYAN, C. E. M., DOGRAMMATZI, A. I. K. A. T. E. R. I. N. I., DOMENICHETTI, F. I. L. I. P. P. O., EL ZRELLI, R. A. D. H. O. U. A. N., FERNANDEZ-ALIAS, Alfredo, KAMPOURIS, T. H. O. D. O. R. O. S. E., Kesici, Nur Bikem, KUPPER, F. R. I. T. H. J. O. F. C., LIPEJ, L. O. V. R. E. N. C., MANCINI, E. M. A. N. U. E. L. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Killer Whale; Orca; Orcinus orca; Killer whale
• Online Access: https://aperta.ulakbim.gov.tr/record/256403

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.