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  1. Seamounts are underwater mountains which typically rise rather steeply at least several hundred meters above the deep-sea floor. These geological features interrupt water flow and hence may induce changes in t...

    Authors: Mafalda FREITAS, Ricardo SOUSA, Pedro IDEIA, Madalena GASPAR, João DELGADO, Ana Luísa COSTA, Antonina dos SANTOS and Manuel BISCOITO
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:23
  2. The Red Sea contains thousands of kilometers of fringing reef systems inhabited by clownfish and sea anemones, yet there is no consensus regarding the diversity of host anemone species that inhabit this region...

    Authors: Morgan F. Bennett-Smith, John E. Majoris, Benjamin M. Titus and Michael L. Berumen
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:22
  3. The invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus has been frequently recorded during the last years along the NW Mediterranean Sea, leading to established populations. Two megalopae of C. sapidus were found during two ...

    Authors: Lydia Png-Gonzalez, Vanesa Papiol, Rosa Balbín, Joan Enric Cartes and Aina Carbonell
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:21
  4. We report the capture of a single specimen of the species Paulia horrida Gray, 1840, off the coast of Arica, in the Arica and Parinacota Region, Northern Chile. This finding extends the currently known distributi...

    Authors: Felipe Méndez-Abarca, Enrique A. Mundaca and Renzo Pepe-Victoriano
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:20
  5. Data from 369 sightings of mobulid rays from St Helena Island, Cardno and Bonaparte seamounts in the South Atlantic are summarised. 50 % (183) of sightings were observed from a boat, 48 % (176) of sightings we...

    Authors: Annalea Beard, Leeann Henry, Samantha Cherrett and Alistair D.M. Dove
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:19
  6. The living and dead fauna of Valencia Seamount, a deep promontory in the middle of the Balearic Basin which summit is at ca. 1100 m depth, is described by first time based in a rock dredge perfomed in a sedime...

    Authors: J. E. Cartes, D. Díaz-Viñolas, V. Papiol, A. Lombarte, A. Serrano, A. Carbonell, C. Salas, S. Gofas, S. Parra, D. Palomino and D. Lloris
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:17
  7. In diatoms the use of molecular tools to corroborate traditional (morphological) identification offers a new perspective in the field of biogeography. This manuscript reports the first record of the raphid pen...

    Authors: María Concepción Lora-Vilchis, Gopal Murugan and Francisco Omar López-Fuerte
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:16
  8. A new record of an individual of the invasive sea squirt, Styela clava, is reported from Scapa Flow in Orkney, Scotland. This represents a 1.54° latitudinal extension (168 km) from the previous northern-most reco...

    Authors: Andrew Want and Jenni E. Kakkonen
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:15

    The Correction to this article has been published in Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:18

  9. Extensive studies on fish diversity in Lakshadweep waters began with Jones and Kumaran’s in 1964. Reports after these authors were sparse and sporadic until the turn of this century. Although recent reports ha...

    Authors: Rajkumar Rajan, P. T. Rajan, S. S. Mishra, Abdul Raheem C. N., Shrinivaasu S., Surendar C. and Damodhar A. T.
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:14
  10. Documenting marine mammal strandings provides important information needed to understand the occurrence and distribution patterns of species. Here, we report on strandings of cetaceans on the Pacific (n = 11) and...

    Authors: Joëlle De Weerdt, Eric Angel Ramos, Etienne Pouplard, Marc Kochzius and Phillip Clapham
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:13
  11. This paper presents the first record of Rhabdosargus sarba (Forsskål 1775) in the Mediterranean Sea and the Syrian marine waters. One specimen (163 mm TL, 66.45 g TW) was caught by trammel nets at a depth range b...

    Authors: Nader Hamwi and Nour Ali-Basha
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:12
  12. Tropical marine ecosystems are biologically diverse and economically invaluable. However, they are severely threatened from impacts associated with climate change coupled with localized and regional stressors,...

    Authors: Parisa Alidoost Salimi, Joel C. Creed, Melanie M. Esch, Douglas Fenner, Zeehan Jaafar, Juan C. Levesque, Anthony D. Montgomery, Mahsa Alidoost Salimi, J. K. Patterson Edward, K. Diraviya Raj and Michael Sweet
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:11
  13. Despite substantial progress in mobulid research over the past decade, knowledge gaps in manta ray ecology and behaviour remain, particularly in the South Atlantic Ocean. Opportunistic photographic and video r...

    Authors: Nayara Bucair, Stephanie K. Venables, Ana Paula Balboni and Andrea D. Marshall
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:10
  14. The first record of two genera of sublittoral amphipods, Autonoe Bruzelius, 1859 and Perioculodes G.O. Sars, 1892, is provided for Hawai‘i. The specimens most closely match Autonoe seurati (Chevreux 1907) and Per...

    Authors: Ken Longenecker
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:9
  15. In the Persian Gulf, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia remain understudied compared to their symbiotic counterparts. Here, we report the presence of azooxanthellate coral Truncatoflabellum mortenseni (Cairns & Zibrowi...

    Authors: Abdolvahab Maghsoudlou, Parisa Alidoost Salimi and Fereidoon Owfi
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:8
  16. This paper presents the first record of Naucrates ductor ( Linnaeus 1758) from Syrian waters. One specimen (300 mm TL, 294.29 g TW) was caught by purse-seine nets at about 60 m depth from Lattakia coast, on 25 Se...

    Authors: Nour Ali-Basha, Adib Saad, Nader Hamwi and Abdullah Tufahha
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:7
  17. Decapod crustaceans are a diverse group that exploits various types of habitats in Costa Rica, where they represent 8.1% of the marine diversity of the country. This group includes families containing species ...

    Authors: Carolina Salas-Moya, Rita Vargas-Castillo, Juan José Alvarado, Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano and Jorge Cortés
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:6
  18. The Longman’s beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus) is one of the rarest cetaceans worldwide. Since it was first described as its own species in 1926, they have been observed alive at sea on several occasions, and...

    Authors: Nozomi Kobayashi, Sachie Ozawa, Nozomi Hanahara, Koji Tokutake, Takaaki Kaneshi, Ken Inoue, Haruna Okabe, Kei Miyamoto and Keiichi Ueda
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:4
  19. A subadult leatherback turtle was documented in the Gulf of Goubet (Djibouti) during a research expedition. This sighting confirms for the first time previous anecdotal observations of the occurrence of the le...

    Authors: Ginevra Boldrocchi, Jennifer V. Schmidt and David P. Robinson
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:3
  20. The Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is the only member of the Ziphiidae family with a regular occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea. Much of the knowledge of this species in the Mediterranean has come f...

    Authors: Sami Karaa, Hassen Jerbi, Sondes Marouani, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai and Massimiliano Rosso
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:2
  21. Between October 2018 and October 2019, seven megamouth sharks were reported as bycatch in the small-scale surface and midwater gillnet fisheries operating from the ports of Mancora and Salaverry in northern Pe...

    Authors: Nicolas Acuña-Perales, Francisco Córdova-Zavaleta, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto and Jeffrey C. Mangel
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2021 14:1
  22. We provide the first record of the shallow and mesophotic (< 150 m depth) antipatharian coral Antipathes grandis VERRILL, 1928 from the Indian Ocean. First described from Hawaii, A. grandis was recently found on ...

    Authors: Erika Gress, Dennis M. Opresko, Mercer R. Brugler, Daniel Wagner, Igor Eeckhaut and Lucas Terrana
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:12
  23. Our knowledge of the benthic fauna at lower bathyal to abyssal (LBA, > 2000 m) depths off Eastern Australia was very limited with only a few samples having been collected from these habitats over the last 150 ...

    Authors: T. D. O’Hara, A. Williams, S. T. Ahyong, P. Alderslade, T. Alvestad, D. Bray, I. Burghardt, N. Budaeva, F. Criscione, A. L. Crowther, M. Ekins, M. Eléaume, C. A. Farrelly, J. K. Finn, M. N. Georgieva, A. Graham…
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:11
  24. Since its introduction in the 1960’s for aquaculture, the Pacific oyster Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) has successfully spread along almost all European coasts with far-reaching consequences for marine ecosyst...

    Authors: Christine Ewers-Saucedo, Nele Heuer, Zoe Moesges, Kira Ovenbeck, Nicole Schröter and Dirk Brandis
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:9
  25. Five specimens of the invasive American blue crab Callinectes sapidus were caught from October 2018 to December 2019 off the Mazara del Vallo harbour, Strait of Sicily. This note documents further records of the ...

    Authors: Fabio Falsone, Danilo Scannella, Michele Luca Geraci, Sergio Vitale, Giacomo Sardo and Fabio Fiorentino
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:8
  26. Planes minutus Linnaeus, 1758 is a species of grapsid crab that is known to be symbiotically associated with various species that include but are not limited to sea turtles. This specie is known to occur in tropi...

    Authors: Fadi Yaghmour and Halima Al Naqbi
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:7
  27. We report on two sightings of individual blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) off the coast of Virginia during marine mammal surveys. On 11 April 2018, during a vessel survey off the coast of Virginia, a single bl...

    Authors: Dan T. Engelhaupt, Todd Pusser, Jessica M. Aschettino, Amy G. Engelhaupt, Mark P. Cotter, Michael F. Richlen and Joel T. Bell
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:6
  28. The California salt marsh snail Melampus olivaceus, a species from southern California, has established a thriving population in the Elkhorn Slough estuary (Monterey Bay), hundreds of kilometers north of where it...

    Authors: Susanne Fork, Bruno Pernet and Kerstin Wasson
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:5
  29. Mobula mobular, a mobulid species once considered a Mediterranean Sea endemic, has received its common name “giant devil ray” based on repeated misidentifications of oceanic manta rays, Mobula birostris, that had...

    Authors: Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Guy Stevens and Daniel Fernando
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:4
  30. In 2016, the range of the hermit crab Clibanarius erythropus expanded to South West Britain for the second time. C. erythropus primarily lives in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic coast of Europe from the Bay of...

    Authors: Christophe Patterson, Matt Slater, Regan Early and Chris Laing
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:3
  31. This paper aims to present the first record of Pagellus bogaraveo (Brünnich, 1768) from Syria marine waters. One specimen was caught by trawl nets at about 300 m depth in Rass Albassit, north of Lattakia, on 25 F...

    Authors: Adib Saad, Mai Masri and Waad Sabour
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2020 13:1
  32. Shallow water benthic communities from the Bizerte lagoon (northern Tunisia) were investigated at 33 stations sampled in April and July of 2016 and 2017. A total of 18 amphipod species were recorded among whic...

    Authors: Marwa Khammassi, Jérôme Jourde, Wahiba Zaabar, Sarra Laabidi, Pierre-Guy Sauriau and Mohamed Sghaier Achouri
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:24
  33. Spiculosiphon oceana Maldonado, López-Acosta, Sitjà, Aguilar, García & Vacelet, 2013 is a Mediterranean endemic giant stalked foraminifer described as a potential bio-indicator of acidic environments, thanks to i...

    Authors: Valentina Esposito, Simonepietro Canese, Gianfranco Scotti, Marzia Bo, Cinzia De Vittor, Franco Andaloro and Teresa Romeo
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:23
  34. The eggs of Polka-dot ribbonfish Desmodema polystictum have been recorded for the first time in the Indian Ocean. Although the only previous information on eggs from this species consists of line drawings from 19...

    Authors: M. I. G. Rathnasuriya, A. Mateos-Rivera, A. G. G. C. Bandara, R. Skern-Mauritzen, R. P. P. K. Jayasinghe, J. O. Krakstad and P. Dalpadado
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:22
  35. The marine area of Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) contains a 43,000 ha formal marine protected area, a 732 ha special management zone in Bahía Santa Elena, and 150 km of wild protected coastline. In an ...

    Authors: Rita Vargas-Castillo and Jorge Cortés
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:21
  36. One specimen of the ragged-tooth shark, Odontaspis ferox, was caught by a commercial shark fishery to the north of Cape Codera (10° 56′ N, 66° 02′ W), northeastern Venezuela. The specimen (sex unidentified, ~ 180...

    Authors: Rafael Tavares, Leonardo Sanchez and Jose Manuel Briceño
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:20
  37. The first record of the porcellanid crab, Polyonyx loimicola Sankolli, 1965, from Ain-Sokhna, Suez Gulf, Egypt, the Red Sea, is provided far away from its known localities in India and Pakistan. The present speci...

    Authors: Mohamed A. Amer, Tohru Naruse and Masayuki Osawa
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:18
  38. Recent taxonomic revisions of zooxanthellate scleractinian coral taxa have inevitably resulted in confusion regarding the geographic ranges of even the most well-studied species. For example, the recorded dist...

    Authors: Chin Soon Lionel Ng, Sudhanshi Sanjeev Jain, Nhung Thi Hong Nguyen, Shu Qin Sam, Yuichi Preslie Kikuzawa, Loke Ming Chou and Danwei Huang
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:17
  39. The marine benthic dinoflagellate genus Gambierdiscus currently contains ~ 16 species that can be highly morphologically similar to one another, and therefore molecular genetic characterization is necessary to co...

    Authors: Mona Hoppenrath, A. Liza Kretzschmar, Manfred J. Kaufmann and Shauna A. Murray
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:16
  40. Climatic changes and human activities have worked to pave the way for alien species to invade new areas far from their native habitats. Belonidae species (Needlefishes), spread into wide water bodies, and some ex...

    Authors: Firas Alshawy, Amir Ibrahim, Chirine Hussein and Murhaf Lahlah
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:15
  41. Research into the movement ecology of terrestrial and marine animals is growing globally, especially for threatened species. Understanding how far an animal can move and the extent of its range can inform cons...

    Authors: Asia O. Armstrong, Amelia J. Armstrong, Michael B. Bennett, Anthony J. Richardson, Kathy A. Townsend and Christine L. Dudgeon
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:14
  42. Ongoing global ocean warming and a recent increase in the frequency and duration of marine heatwaves have demonstrably impacted marine ecosystems. Growing evidence points to both short- and long-term biologica...

    Authors: Steve I. Lonhart, Rikke Jeppesen, Rodrigo Beas-Luna, Jeffrey A. Crooks and Julio Lorda
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:13
  43. Here we report on the sudden seasonal occurrence of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae within the Firth of Forth, Scotland, UK over the winter months of 2017 and 2018. Sightings and photographs collected by c...

    Authors: Katie E. O’Neil, Emily G. Cunningham and Daniel M. Moore
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:12
  44. The puffer fish species (Tetraodontidae) inhabit tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world, and some species exist in many parts of the Mediterranean Sea. In the Syrian marine waters (eastern Me...

    Authors: Firas Alshawy, Amir Ibrahim, Chirine Hussein and Murhaf Lahlah
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:11
  45. Lamellibrachia columna Southward was originally described from hydrothermal vents of the Lau Basin, between Fiji and Tonga. This study utilizes phylogenetic and morphological analyses to confirm the collection of...

    Authors: Marina F. McCowin, Ashley A. Rowden and Greg W. Rouse
    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2019 12:10