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  1. A new record for Elacatinus figaro, an endangered Brazilian species, is documented for Pedra do Sal, Piauí coast. We present new data about its distribution, discussing on the limits of the Brazilian Province and...

    Authors: Daniel Fernando Almeida, Gabriel Soares Araujo, Marcelo R. Britto and Cláudio Luis Santos Sampaio

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:59

    Content type: Marine Record

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  4. Zameus squamulosus is a somniosid shark with a patchy world-wide distribution that has been reported throughout the Atlantic, Indian, western, north, central and south-eastern Pacific Oceans. In the Northern G...

    Authors: Eduardo Villalobos, Armando Martínez, Christian Lambarri and Héctor Espinosa

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:61

    Content type: Marine Record

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  5. The Bocas del Toro Archipelago is located off the Caribbean coast of Panama. Until now, only 19 species of heterobranch sea slugs have been formally reported from this area; this number constitutes a fraction ...

    Authors: Jessica A. Goodheart, Ryan A. Ellingson, Xochitl G. Vital, Hilton C. Galvão Filho, Jennifer B. McCarthy, Sabrina M. Medrano, Vishal J. Bhave, Kimberly García-Méndez, Lina M. Jiménez, Gina López, Craig A. Hoover, Jaymes D. Awbrey, Jessika M. De Jesus, William Gowacki, Patrick J. Krug and Ángel Valdés

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:56

    Content type: Marine Record

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  6. Hundreds of thousands of cetaceans die each year due to commercial fishing catches, which is the main threat to global populations of these animals. Mortality by fishing gets disastrous proportions mainly in d...

    Authors: M. L. V. Barbosa-Filho, E. M. Costa-Neto and D. Danilewicz

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:42

    Content type: Marine Record

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  7. This report confirms the presence of Pelia mutica in Brazil, extending its range by approximately 4000 km south to the southwestern Atlantic Ocean from its most southerly recorded distribution. The presence of th...

    Authors: Bruno Welter Giraldes, David Smyth and Mark Chatting

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:54

    Content type: Marine Record

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  8. The introduction of NIS to estuaries and coastal embayment is of great concern. Commercial ships’ ballast water discharge and the northwards progression of species due to the ongoing climate change arise as th...

    Authors: A. Albaina, I. Uriarte, M. Aguirre, D. Abad, A. Iriarte, F. Villate and A. Estonba

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:51

    Content type: Marine Record

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  9. Humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae are cosmopolitan and highly migratory animals that rarely feed in low latitude waters during their breeding seasons. The western South Atlantic humpback whale population bre...

    Authors: Guilherme Augusto Bortolotto, Cristiane Kiyomi Miyaji Kolesnikovas, Andrea Santarosa Freire and Paulo César Simões-Lopes

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:29

    Content type: Marine Record

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  10. Results are presented from the first systematic visual and acoustic line-transect survey for harbour porpoises in the Thracian Sea, northern Aegean Sea. During the vessel survey, undertaken in summer 2013, por...

    Authors: A-C Cucknell, A. Frantzis, O. Boisseau, M. Romagosa, C. Ryan, A. M. Tonay, P. Alexiadou, A. A. Öztürk and A. Moscrop

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:72

    Content type: Research

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  11. Arabian Sea considered as one of the richest region of oceanic cephalopods. On conflicting information related to species diversity is still scare.

    Authors: K. K. Sajikumar, V. Venkatesan, R. Jeyabaskaran, Abbas Muhammed and K. S. Mohamed

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:53

    Content type: Marine Record

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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:77

  12. The occurrence of a small brackish water bloom-forming dinoflagellate belonging to the genus Peridiniopsis is reported for the first time from the Shatt Al-Arab River in Iraq. Based on the study of cell morpholog...

    Authors: Hameed A. Hameed, Maria Saburova and Nicolas Chomérat

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:40

    Content type: Research

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  13. Biancolina Della Valle (Monograpie 20:1893) are minute amphipods that bore tunnels into algal tissue. Their global distribution and diversity are poorly known due to their small size a...

    Authors: Lauren E. Hughes and Alistair G. B. Poore

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:32

    Content type: Marine Record

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  14. Marivagia stellata Galil and Gershwin, 2010 (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae: Cepheidae), was recorded for the first time off the Syrian coast on the 6th of July 2015. Several specimens of the alien sea jelly species M. ...

    Authors: S. Mamish, H. Durgham and M. S. AL-Masri

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:23

    Content type: Marine Records

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  15. Sardines are the most important commercial fishes for Iran. However, information about biology and ecology of sind sardine in Persian Gulf and Oman Sea is scarce.

    Authors: Mohsen Dehghani, Ehsan Kamrani, Ali Salarpouri and Sana Sharifian

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:44

    Content type: Marine Record

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  16. The genus Lysmata includes about 40 described species of which at least 12 species occur in the western Atlantic. The present study records the extension of the southern limit of distr...

    Authors: Samara De Paiva Barros-Alves, Douglas Fernandes Rodrigues Alves, Gustavo Luis Hirose and Valter José Cobo

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:34

    Content type: Marine Record

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  17. The known historical range of Siphonaria pectinata in the Mediterranean basin is unclear so far. Confirmed records come from the Strait of Gibraltar, the African coastline up to Algeria and the Spanish coastline ...

    Authors: Fabio Crocetta

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:55

    Content type: Research

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  18. The eastern North Pacific population of right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is considered to be one of the smallest whale populations in the world and is at serious risk of extirpation. During the past century, ther...

    Authors: John K. B. Ford, James F. Pilkington, Brian Gisborne, Timothy R. Frasier, Robin M. Abernethy and Graeme M. Ellis

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:50

    Content type: Marine Record

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  19. Mangroves are distributed among tropical and subtropical coastlines of all oceans, and associated macroflora and macrofauna are generally well studied. However, information on mangrove-associated microbiota is...

    Authors: Laise de Holanda Cavalcanti, Glauciane Damasceno, Antonia Aurelice Aurélio Costa and Andrea Carla Caldas Bezerra

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:31

    Content type: Marine Record

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  21. Cassiopea andromeda is reported here after long gap of almost a century from the Gulf of Kutch, Gujarat. This is the first record of scyphistoma form of the species from India and first record of the medusa from ...

    Authors: Amruta Prasade, Pooja Nagale and Deepak Apte

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:36

    Content type: Marine Record

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  22. Cyprus is affected by the invasion of non-indigenous ‘lessepsian’ species due to its proximity to the Suez Canal. Thus, recent ongoing studies in the marine area of Cyprus reveal new records of such Erythrean ...

    Authors: Niki Chartosia and Nikolas Michailidis

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:33

    Content type: Marine Record

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  23. Port Stephens, on the central New South Wales coast, provides ideal oceanographic and benthic conditions for the settlement and growth of larvae of tropical species delivered from the north by the East Austral...

    Authors: Matt J. Nimbs, Meryl Larkin, Tom R. Davis, David Harasti, Richard C. Willan and Stephen D. A. Smith

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:27

    Content type: Marine Records

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  24. We report the first sighting of a dead giant squid observed from a seismic vessel operating offshore Brazil. The observation was made by Marine Mammal Observers working on the vessel. The specimen was photogra...

    Authors: Luciana Leite, Daniel Campbell, Leonardo Versiani, José Anchieta C. C. Nunes and Torsten Thiele

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:26

    Content type: Marine Records

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  25. The Galapagos Slipper lobster, Scyllarides astori, has been reported from rocky reefs along the Eastern Tropical Pacific: the Gulf of California, the Galapagos Archipelago and mainland Ecuador. Although larval st...

    Authors: Juan Carlos Azofeifa-Solano, Manon Fourriére and Patrick Horgan

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:48

    Content type: Marine Record

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  26. Until now, few sightings of the alien lionfish Pterois miles have been reported in the Mediterranean and it was questionable whether the species could invade this region like it has in the western Atlantic. He...

    Authors: Demetris Kletou, Jason M. Hall-Spencer and Periklis Kleitou

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:46

    Content type: Marine Record

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  27. The whitetip reef shark, Triaenodon obesus, is distributed across the entire Indo-Pacific region, from South Africa and the Red Sea to Australia, Micronesia, the Pitcairn Islands, and Hawaii. It has also been rep...

    Authors: Antonio Corgos and Alejandro Rosende-Pereiro

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:66

    Content type: Marine Record

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  28. The rhodymenialean red algal species Rhodymenia holmesii was collected in the lower intertidal zones from Dalya and Al-Hoceima (Northern Morocco, Mediterranean Sea). This represents the first record and descripti...

    Authors: Ghizlane Salhi, Mustapha Hassoun, Hanaa Moussa, Hanaa Zbakh and Hassane Riadi

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:62

    Content type: Marine Record

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  29. Because of their usually cryptic behaviour, most knowledge on the biology of beaked whales are from records of stranded animals. Although the Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is the best known species ...

    Authors: Guilherme Augusto Bortolotto, Igor Oliveira Braga Morais, Paulo Roberto Bahiano Ferreira, Maria do Socorro Santos dos Reis and Luciano Raimundo Alardo Souto

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:30

    Content type: Marine Record

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  30. The chirostylid squat lobster, Chirostylus dolichopus Ortmann, 1892, was rediscovered from its type locality, Katsuyama (Boso Peninsula, Honshu, Japan) (35°06.7′N, 139°48.8′E), since the holotype had been collect...

    Authors: Junji Okuno and Masayuki Osawa

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:28

    Content type: Marine Record

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  31. A sampling effort carried out in the Northern coast of Portugal revealed the presence of two species of sea spiders that are recorded for the first time in Portugal: Anoplodactylus angula...

    Authors: Patricia Esquete, Marcos Rubal, Puri Veiga and Jesús Troncoso

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:24

    Content type: Marine Record

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  33. Large oceanic salps are rarely encountered. The highest recorded biomasses of the salps Thetys vagina (852 g WW m−3) and Cyclosalpa affinis (1149 g WW m−3) were observed in the Tasman Sea during January 2009.

    Authors: Natasha Henschke, Jason D. Everett and Iain M. Suthers

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:21

    Content type: Marine Record

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  34. Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) spawning adults, juveniles and larvae are all reported to occur in areas between Philippine Sea and Japan Sea. However, no DNA evidence has been generated to support t...

    Authors: Katreena P. Sarmiento, Minerva Fatimae H. Ventolero, Rafael V. Ramiscal, William S. Dela Cruz and Mudjekeewis D. Santos

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:25

    Content type: Marine Record

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  37. One specimen of Carapus acus was captured in the Gulf of Gabès (southern Tunisia, central Mediterranean Sea), during an experimental bottom trawl survey in the frame of the monitoring of benthic fish stocks of th...

    Authors: Samira Enajjar and Mohamed Nejemeddine Bradai

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:7

    Content type: Marine Record

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  38. A new record of the endangered species blackchin guitarfish, Rhinobatos cemiculus (925 mm TL) is here reported from South Aegean Sea. On 11 January 2015, a single specimen was collected by longline off from the K...

    Authors: Halit Filiz, Gökçen Bilge, Daniela Giannetto and Sercan Yapıcı

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:13

    Content type: Marine Record

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  40. During a survey in Santa Gilla, a Tyrrhenian lagoon located in southern Sardinia, several specimens of the alien polychaete Naineris setosa were found. 1) A brief description of the specimens is presented; they p...

    Authors: Giulia Atzori, Eduardo López, Pierantonio Addis, Andrea Sabatini and Serenella Cabiddu

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:5

    Content type: Marine Record

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  42. The introduction and spread of non-indigenous species is one of the main threats to biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems and it is becoming an increasing problem for the international scientific community. Aquac...

    Authors: Cristina Munari, Nadia Bocchi and Michele Mistri

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:12

    Content type: Marine Record

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  43. The brittle star Ophiothela mirabilis has recently invaded and is expanding its range in the southwest Atlantic.

    Authors: Marcelo Checoli Mantelatto, Lara Figueiredo Vidon, Rosana Beatriz Silveira, Carla Menegola, Rosana Moreira da Rocha and Joel Christopher Creed

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:8

    Content type: Marine Record

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  45. The families Xanthdiae and Pilumnidae are two common families of the brachyuran crabs in the Persian Gulf. These families are represented with 25 and 23 species, respectively, in the Gulf.

    Authors: Reza Naderloo, Saeed Ebrahimnejad, Amirhossein Dustali and Mohammad Mahdian

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:19

    Content type: Marine Record

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  46. This study compiles the diversity of sea anemones in different shallow habitats (i.e. rocky shores, coral reefs, mangroves and sandy bottoms) in several locations of Venezuela, including the most important mar...

    Authors: Ricardo González-Muñoz, Nuno Simões, Edlin J. Guerra-Castro, Carlos Hernández-Ortíz, Gabriela Carrasquel, Enio Mendez, Carlos Lira, Martin Rada, Iván Hernández, Sheila M. Pauls, Aldo Croquer and Juan J. Cruz-Motta

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:18

    Content type: Marine Record

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  47. Alien fish species are increasing in the Mediterranean Sea, urging closer monitoring of coastal habitats and biodiversity towards achieving timely assessment and management. Among the alien fish species found ...

    Authors: Adriana Vella, Noel Vella and Sandra Agius Darmanin

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:15

    Content type: Marine Record

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  50. The mysid Heteromysis (Heteromysis) microps is reported for the first time in the Bay of Biscay. During surveys carried out between March and September 2015 in Arcachon Bay, mysid specimens were fortuitously coll...

    Authors: Nicolas Lavesque, Ludovic Pascal, Benoit Gouillieux, Jean-Claude Sorbe, Guy Bachelet and Olivier Maire

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:14

    Content type: Marine Record

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