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  1. 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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  2. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  23. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  33. 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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  35. Septibranchia comprises groups of bivalves that have developed a series of anatomical and conchological modifications toward a carnivorous and/or saprophagic lifestyle. The present study aims to identify the s...

    Authors: Cristiane Xerez Barroso, Sula Salani, Soraya Guimarães Rabay and Helena Matthews-Cascon

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:4

    Content type: Marine Record

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  36. Populations of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) in China were known to be distributed from the Beibu Gulf near the border with Vietnam to the mouth of the Yangtze River. According to existing stud...

    Authors: Songhai Li, Mingli Lin, Xiao Xu, Luru Xing, Peijun Zhang, Rodolphe E. Gozlan, Shiang-Lin Huang and Ding Wang

    Citation: Marine Biodiversity Records 2016 9:3

    Content type: Marine Record

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