New records of rare species in the Mediterranean Sea (May 2022)Kousteni, Vasiliki (Avtor) Anastasiadis, Athanasios (Avtor) Bariche, Michel (Avtor) Battaglia, Pietro (Avtor) Bonifazi, Andrea (Avtor) Ćetković, Ilija (Avtor) Chimienti, Giovanni (Avtor) Colombo, Marco (Avtor) Constantinou, Costas (Avtor) Corsini-Foka, Maria (Avtor) Dalyan, Cem (Avtor) Dogrammatzi, Aikaterini (Avtor) Domenichetti, Filippo (Avtor) El Zrelli, Radhouan (Avtor) Fernández-Alías, Alfredo (Avtor) Kampouris, Thodoros E. (Avtor) Lipej, Lovrenc (Avtor) Mavrič, Borut (Avtor) Pešić, Ana (Avtor) Trkov, Domen (Avtor) This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 20 taxa that belong to six Phyla: one Cnidaria, one Ctenophora, two Annelida, four Mollusca, two Arthropoda, and ten 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; Mon-tenegro: 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; 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; Leb-anon: first record of the killer whale Orcinus orca from the Levantine Sea.20222024-07-16 03:44:58Neznano19350sl