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  1. The Bay of Bengal coast, Bangladesh is a hotspot of fisheries abundance and diversity. A new species of Carangid family Alepes kleinii is recorded and described for the first time in the coastal waters of Banglad...

    Authors: Muhammad A. B. Siddik, Md Abu Hanif, Ashfaqun Nahar, Md Reaz Chaklader and Rowan Kleindienst

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:32

    Content type: Marine Record

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  2. In the original version of this article (Moreno & Gonzalez-Pestana, 2017), published on 9 November 2017, the first sentence of the ‘Conclusions’ contains an error: the species “M. alfredi” has been wrongfully men...

    Authors: Bernabé Moreno and Adriana Gonzalez-Pestana

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:31

    Content type: Correction

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    The original article was published in Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:27

  3. Late in the 1990s, the non-indigenous European green crab (Carcinus maenas) colonized the shorelines of eastern Prince Edward Island, in Atlantic Canada. Due to concerns of further spread into productive shellfis...

    Authors: Luke A. Poirier, Aaron P. Ramsay, Sophie St-Hilaire and Pedro A. Quijón

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:30

    Content type: Research

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  4. Harmothoe aspera has been recorded in surveys off the Strait of Georgia, the Skagerrak, and the Barents, Mediterranean and Japanese sea. The recorded depth ranged from circa 48 m to circa...

    Authors: Martijn Spierings, Inês Maia Dias, Joop W. P. Coolen, Babeth van der Weide and Joël Cuperus

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:29

    Content type: Marine Record

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  5. Only a few records exist of the sponge crab Dromia personata in the North Sea. Most records are in local languages, and have limited availability. On 11 August 2016, D. personata was found by divers in the Easter...

    Authors: Godfried W. N. M. van Moorsel, Floris P. Bennema and Reindert Nijland

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:28

    Content type: Marine Record

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  6. Manta rays (Mobulidae), Mobula birostris and Mobula alfredi, are widely distributed in tropical and temperate waters. Still, little is known about their movements and their ecological interactions (e.g. behavior ...

    Authors: Bernabé Moreno and Adriana Gonzalez-Pestana

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:27

    Content type: Marine Record

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    The Correction to this article has been published in Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:31

  7. Introduction of non-indigenous species into a well-established ecosystem can be detrimental, resulting in both ecological and economical damage. Two specimens of giant mud crab, Scylla serrata were found for the ...

    Authors: Hanafiah Fazhan, Khor Waiho and Mhd Ikhwanuddin

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:26

    Content type: Marine Record

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  8. Vestimentiferan tubeworms (Annelida: Siboglinidae) often play an important role as a foundation species in chemosynthetic ecosystems by providing microhabitats for other organisms. In the present study, we det...

    Authors: Genki Kobayashi and Shigeaki Kojima

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:25

    Content type: Marine Record

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  9. Galapagos fur seals, Arctocephalus galapagoensis, inhabit the Galapagos Archipelago. The species is considered to be non-migratory, remaining in the Galapagos year-round. On 9 June 2016, a live fur seal stranded ...

    Authors: Ester Quintana-Rizzo, Lucia Garcia, Rudy José López, Susana Tobar-Hurtado and Airam López-Roulet

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:24

    Content type: Marine Record

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  14. The Pacific coastline along the southern Izu Peninsula, Japan, is strongly influenced by warm tropical waters of the Kuroshio Current. A new easternmost record of the near-threatened sesarmid crab Clistocoeloma v...

    Authors: Takeshi Yuhara, Hiroyuki Yokooka and Masanori Taru

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:19

    Content type: Marine Record

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  16. The cetacean fauna of the poorly-studied waters off eastern Africa is still being described. Information on the cetacean species occurring in specific range states is important for understanding their geograph...

    Authors: Gary A. Allport, Christopher Curtis, Tiago Pampulim Simões and Maria J. Rodrigues

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:17

    Content type: Marine Record

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  18. Marine turtles play an important role in the culture and economy of numerous coastal communities around the world. However, the legal framework that regulates the consumptive use of these reptiles varies among...

    Authors: H. Barrios-Garrido, N. Espinoza-Rodríguez, D. Rojas-Cañizales, J. Palmar, N. Wildermann, M. G. Montiel-Villalobos and M. Hamann

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:15

    Content type: Research

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  19. An updated checklist of medusae and ctenophores is presented for the first time for the area comprised by the Bahía Blanca Estuary, the adjacent shelf El Rincón and Monte Hermoso beach, o...

    Authors: M. Sofía Dutto, Gabriel N. Genzano, Agustín Schiariti, Julieta Lecanda, Mónica S. Hoffmeyer and Paula D. Pratolongo

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:14

    Content type: Marine Record

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  20. The sub-Antarctic Prince Edward Archipelago (46°53’S, 37°52’E), consisting of Marion and Prince Edward islands, is situated in the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, approximately 2 600 km away from the clos...

    Authors: Tegan Carpenter-Kling, John Dickens and Pierre A. Pistorius

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:13

    Content type: Marine Record

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  24. The caprellid fauna from different localities along the Mexican Pacific coast: Sinaloa (3), Nayarit (15), Jalisco (9) and Colima (1) are presented herein.

    Authors: Lucy Coral Alarcón-Ortega, Amílcar Leví Cupul-Magaña, Alma Paola Rodríguez-Troncoso and Fabio Germán Cupul-Magaña

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:9

    Content type: Marine Record

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  25. The French angelfish Pomacanthus paru (Pomacanthidae) is recognised as an important cleaner in tropical reef environments, yet its clients remain relatively undescribed in the literature. Here, we report observat...

    Authors: Cláudio L. S. Sampaio, Miguel Loiola, Liliana P. Colman, Diego V. Medeiros, Juan Pablo Quimbayo, Ricardo J. Miranda, José Amorim Reis-Filho and José de Anchieta C. C. Nunes

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:8

    Content type: Marine Record

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  26. This study reports for the first time the presence of the Lusitanian ampeliscid amphipod Ampelisca lusitanica Bellan-Santini & Marques, 1986 in the northwestern Atlantic coast of Morocco.

    Authors: Z. Belattmania, A. Chaouti, M. Machado, A. Engelen, E. A. Serrão, A. Reani and B. Sabour

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:7

    Content type: Marine Record

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  27. The study describes the range extension of the sea horse Hippocampus fuscus from the south to north east coastal waters of the India, Bay of Bengal. After 99 years since initial discovery, the Hippocampus fusc...

    Authors: Debasish Mahapatro, R. K. Mishra and S. Panda

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:6

    Content type: Marine Record

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  28. Nephroselmis is composed by unicellular nanoplanktonic organisms, occurring predominantly in marine environments. Currently, 14 species are taxonomically accepted. Nephroselmis viridis wa...

    Authors: Karoline Magalhães Ferreira Lubiana, Sônia Maria Flores Gianesella, Flávia Marisa Prado Saldanha-Corrêa and Mariana Cabral Oliveira

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:5

    Content type: Marine Record

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  29. DNA barcoding is an effective method of accurately identifying morphologically similar oyster species. However, for some of Japan’s Ostrea species there are no molecular data in the international DNA databases.

    Authors: Masami Hamaguchi, Miyuki Manabe, Naoto Kajihara, Hiromori Shimabukuro, Yuji Yamada and Eijiro Nishi

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2017 10:4

    Content type: Research

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  34. The remains (probably a moult) of a female Chinese mitten crab were found in the freshwater River Clyde. This is the first report of a Chinese mitten crab from the wild in Scotland and is well outside the prev...

    Authors: William E. Yeomans and John Clark

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:100

    Content type: Marine Record

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  35. Non-native marine species, including tropical eastern Atlantic fish species are on the increase in Malta, with shipping activities being the main vector for the movement of these alien species from the Atlanti...

    Authors: Noel Vella, Adriana Vella and Sandra Agius Darmanin

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:99

    Content type: Marine Record

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  36. Climatic changes and human activities have worked to pave the way for alien species to invade new areas far from their native habitat. The Mediterranean sea has received many invasive species (Eissa and Zaki, ...

    Authors: Firas Alshawy, Murhaf Lahlah and Chirine Hussein

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:98

    Content type: Marine Record

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  37. Seven species of mobulid rays occur in the Philippines, six of which, including the Giant Manta Ray (Manta birostris) are caught directly or indirectly. In the Bohol Sea, mobulids have been fished since at least ...

    Authors: Jo Marie V. Acebes, Yotam Barr, Jacqueline Marjorie R. Pereda and Mudjekeewis D. Santos

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:97

    Content type: Marine Record

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  38. This study investigates the spatial and temporal variation of intertidal macroalgae along the eastern coasts of Qeshm Island, Persian Gulf, Iran. Monthly sampling of abundance, biomass, richness and diversity ...

    Authors: Maryam Kokabi, Morteza Yousefzadi, Marzieh Razaghi and Mohamad Amin Feghhi

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:96

    Content type: Marine Record

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  40. One male and one female specimen of tiger shark, Galeocerdo cuvier (Péron & Lesueur, 1822), were accidentally caught by a drifting longline for swordfish in the south Mediterranean (Libyan waters). This findin...

    Authors: Ibrahim M. Tobuni, Ben-Abdallah R. Benabdallah, Fabrizio Serena and Esmail A. Shakman

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:94

    Content type: Review

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  42. New records of the cubozoan jellyfish Tamoya haplonema in Uruguayan waters are reported together with historical records for the region, and associated with the oceanographic conditions at the moment of the findi...

    Authors: Valentina Leoni, Silvana González, Leonardo Ortega, Fabrizio Scarabino, Gabriela Failla Siquier, Alicia Dutra, Luis Rubio, Martin Abreu, Wilson Serra, Ana Gabriella Alonzo Campi, Sergio N. Stampar and André C. Morandini

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:92

    Content type: Marine Record

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  43. This study reports on bryozoan species collected at three offshore gas platforms in the Dutch part of the North Sea. Four out of thirteen observed species are considered as rare in the Netherlands, whereas Cribri...

    Authors: Esther D. Beukhof, Joop W. P. Coolen, Babeth E. van der Weide, Joël Cuperus, Hans de Blauwe and Jerry Lust

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:91

    Content type: Marine Record

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  44. The occurrence of Hydrolagus cf. trolli is reported for the first time from the central and eastern North Pacific Ocean. This is a geographic range extension for this species, as it was previously only known to o...

    Authors: Amber N. Reichert, Lonny Lundsten and David A. Ebert

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:90

    Content type: Marine Record

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  46. A visual survey of cetaceans was carried out during a voyage from Singapore to Sri Lanka, through the Straits of Malacca, Andaman Sea and across the Bay of Bengal in the northern Indian Ocean in November/Decem...

    Authors: Anoukchika D. Ilangakoon and Abigail K. Alling

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:88

    Content type: Marine Record

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  47. Bull sharks are a cosmopolitan shark species frequently found in shallow shelf ocean waters and, occasionally, in several tropical river systems around the world. Due to bull shark’s capability to enter riveri...

    Authors: Leonardo Manir Feitosa, Ana Paula Barbosa Martins and Jorge Luiz Silva Nunes

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:87

    Content type: Marine Record

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  48. The red algal species Griffithsia capitata (Ceramiales, Rhodophyta), native to the Canary Islands and Madeira, is reported for the first time from San Andres Island, International Biosphere Reserve Seaflower, Car...

    Authors: M. Natalia Rincón-Díaz, Brigitte Gavio, Michael J. Wynne and Adriana Santos-Martínez

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:86

    Content type: Marine Record

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  50. The coloured righteye flounder, Poecilopsetta colorata Günther, 1880 was previously known from the eastern Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and Indonesia. Here, a new record from the western Indian Ocean is re...

    Authors: Wei-Jen Chen, Jhen-Nien Chen, Eve-Julie Pernet and Karine Olu

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:83

    Content type: Marine Record

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