<documentID-CLB-Dataset="8878"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1010.58759"ID-GBIF-Dataset="991ddda8-cc57-4ef5-8ada-5ea378885925"ID-PMC="PMC7817654"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-1010-1"ID-Pensoft-UUID="D317557D854C577289AA424187C079D2"ID-PubMed="33531857"ID-ZooBank="45DF30C9AEB448AAAC32BBE77CB7191D"ModsDocID="1313-2970-1010-1"checkinTime="1610662641170"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Albano, Paolo G., Steger, Jan, Bakker, Piet A. J., Bogi, Cesare, Bosnjak, Marija, Guy-Haim, Tamar, Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih, LaFollette, Patrick I., Lubinevsky, Hadas, Mulas, Martina, Stockinger, Martina, Azzarone, Michele & Sabelli, Bruno"docDate="2021"docId="1935B7422122522AAFD36103311ADFC7"docLanguage="en"docName="ZooKeys 1010: 1-95"docOrigin="ZooKeys 1010"docPubDate="2021-01-13"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1010.58759"docTitle="Melanella orientalis Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa 2020"docType="treatment"docVersion="7"id="D317557D854C577289AA424187C079D2"lastPageNumber="1"masterDocId="D317557D854C577289AA424187C079D2"masterDocTitle="Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification"masterLastPageNumber="95"masterPageNumber="1"pageNumber="1"updateTime="1732649705346"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:titleid="0BFDC9E5D0B1C109CFB9ADFE16F58904">Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification</mods:title>
<mods:affiliationid="C3FE5F485A0DFB56E0933567A20447EA">Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="2161DA295DE41A43023F98807645AAF5">Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="A0DBF132F99FA959C0C2FEA8E63610B4">Gruppo Malacologico Livornese, c / o Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo, via Roma 234, 57127, Livorno, Italy</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="D00C03BB06ABA33FC94A28C017B96B98">Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria & Croatian Natural History Museum, Demetrova 1, Zagreb, Croatia</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="A030B4A68EE1DB9900879C4B6F782379">National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Haifa 3108001, Israel</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="22A618BFE2F5E76FEE353A990F41EC25">Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="8F66BAF73D122CCBB234C4D3DB729961">Faculty of Maritime Studies, University of Kyrenia, Karakum, Girne, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus</mods:affiliation>
<mods:namePartid="131ED8E07881005E1461E5A0BF103239">LaFollette, Patrick I.</mods:namePart>
<mods:affiliationid="FC98CF44F7AD68AA75BD22596264746E">Malacology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="CA3C2550A669C400BA8F95E717652A12">National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Haifa 3108001, Israel</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="6B64E73FAD4D09599BCBD327FB354F89">National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Haifa 3108001, Israel & The Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, 199 Aba Khoushy Ave., Mt. Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="1127ADBE183F2CAA364D1C45BB817FBE">Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="97C62E058144F19DE12DBB474FAC9090">Department of Palaeontology, University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, 1090, Vienna, Austria</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="7F9B4DF888991D906C8B4FBB291387EA">Museo di Zoologia dell'Universita di Bologna, via Selmi 3, 40126, Bologna, Italy</mods:affiliation>
<taxonomicNameid="CABD03F46E4698D2477A1DA588E41DC9"ID-CoL="7S47M"LSID="1935B742-2122-522A-AFD3-6103311ADFC7"authority="Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa, 2020"authorityName="Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa"authorityYear="2020"class="Gastropoda"family="Eulimidae"genus="Melanella"higherTaxonomySource="CoL"kingdom="Animalia"lsidName="Melanella orientalis"order="Littorinimorpha"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"phylum="Mollusca"rank="species"species="orientalis">Melanella orientalis Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa, 2020</taxonomicName>
<figureCitationid="61529911DC7660EDC993FF43DE4C57C8"captionStart="Figure 17"captionStartId="F17"captionText="Figure 17. Melanella orientalis Agamennone, Micali & Siragusa, 2020, Ashqelon, Israel, HELM project (sample S 12 _ 1 M): front (A, B), side (C, D) and back (E) views, apex (F). Scale bars: 1 mm (A-E); 0.2 mm (F)."figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1010.58759.figure17"httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/496970"pageId="0"pageNumber="1">Figure 17</figureCitation>
<bibRefCitationid="B03E9C4194FF10BB489877CBC32EE282"DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.10039"author="Albano, PG"journalOrPublisher="Zoosystematics and Evolution"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"pagination="45 - 94"refId="B18"refString="Albano, PG, Bakker, PAJ, Janssen, R, Eschner, A, 2017. An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany's type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93: 45 - 94, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.10039"title="An illustrated catalogue of Rudolf Sturany's type specimens in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Austria (NHMW): Red Sea gastropods."url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.10039"volume="93"year="2017">Albano et al. (2017)</bibRefCitation>
), which can be distinguished because of its slightly bent apical whorls and the unusual pustulous sculpture of the protoconch. The species presented here is apparently already widespread in the Eastern Mediterranean (
<bibRefCitationid="9293DFE0A91D705B18867BF86DBA22FE"author="Agamennone, F"journalOrPublisher="Bollettino Malacologico"pageId="0"pageNumber="1"pagination="172 - 175"refId="B9"refString="Agamennone, F, Micali, P, Siragusa, F, 2020a. Melanella orientalis n. sp. (Gastropoda: Eulimidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean. Bollettino Malacologico 56: 172 - 175"title="Melanella orientalis n. sp. (Gastropoda: Eulimidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean."volume="56"year="2020 a">Agamennone et al. 2020a</bibRefCitation>
). We found only living individuals and no empty shells. Because of this, and the low likelihood that a so widespread species in shallow depths in the Eastern Mediterranean would have escaped detection for long, we consider it a new non-indigenous species in the basin. The specimens reported as
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