Benthic bryozoan fauna from the Northern Egyptian coast

Abstract

The present paper presents taxonomical information on a small bryozoan fauna collected from the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Egypt. Eight species of benthic bryozoans are reported from the trash crop of a trawling net in the area between Damietta and El-Manzalah. These species belong to 7 genera in 7 families of the orders Cyclostomata, Ctenostomata and Cheilostomata. Four species (Hornera sp., Nolella dilatata, Copidozoum planum and Schizomavella triangularis) are new records of the Egyptian Mediterranean waters. All species are described and photographed. ª 2014 National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries. Hosting by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).

High xenodiversity versus low native diversity in the south-eastern Mediterranean: bryozoans from the coastal zone of Lebanon

“…Lepralia depressa Busk, 1854 was originally described from the Aegean Sea, where its frequency was noticed by Harmelin (1968Harmelin ( -1969 and Hayward (1974). It was recorded from the same area by Ünsal (1975) and Morri et al (1999), and from the Levantine Basin, in Israel (d 'Hondt, 1988;Sokolover, 2014), Egypt (Abdelsalam, 2014), Northern Cyprus (Koçak et al, 2002), and Lebanon (Bitar & Kouli-Bitar, 2001). Records of this species beyond the Eastern Mediterranean are scarce: Tunisia, Gulf of Gabes (David & Pouyet, 1979), SE Sicilia (Rosso et al, 2012), Corsica (Calvet, 1902;Gautier, 1962).…”

“…Harmelin, 1968Harmelin, -1969Hayward, 1974Hayward, , 1975Ünsall, 1975;Ünsall & d'Hondt, 1978Ünsall & d'Hondt, -1979Morri et al, 1999;Koçak & Aydin Önen, 2014) than on the Levantine Basin (e.g. O'Donoghue & de Watteville, 1939;Gautier, 1956;d 'Hondt, 1988;Koçak et al, 2002;Abdelsalam & Ramadan, 2008;Abdelsalam, 2014;Sokolover, 2014). Non-indigenous bryozoans present in the Levantine basin were recorded from Egypt (Hastings, 1927), Israel (Powell, 1969;Eitan, 1972a;Goren, 1980;d'Hondt, 1988;Sokolover, 2014), Turkey (Ünsal, 1975;Ünsal & d'Hondt, 1978Ünsal & d'Hondt, -1979Koçak, 2007), North Cyprus (Koçak et al, 2002) and Lebanon (Bitar & Kouli-Bitar, 2001 and references below).…”

Bryozoan diversity of Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea): first results from census surveys (2011–2018)

“…Despite the fact that the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most thoroughly investigated areas, representing nearly 9.6% of the global bryozoan diversity, the eastern basin has been poorly studied in the past (Rosso & Di Martino, 2016;Gerovasileiou & Rosso, 2016). However, during the last years several studies have been published describing the bryozoan diversity of the Levantine Basin (Koçak et al, 2002;Harmelin et al, 2007Harmelin et al, , 2009Abdelsalam, 2014;Harmelin, 2014a,b;Sokolover et al, 2016;Abdelsalam et al, 2017;Guido et al, 2017;Berning et al, 2019;Rosso et al, 2019). Whilst most of the species are apparently widely distributed throughout the Medi-terranean Sea, a large number of taxa are new records to the region, many of which are regarded as non-indigenous that have probably entered the eastern basin through the Suez Canal.…”

Macrofauna associated with a recently described bryozoan species in the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria, Egypt

“…However, Gerovasileiou and stated that recent efforts have significantly increased the knowledge on bryozoans in the south-eastern Mediterranean Sea, recording 237 species from the Greek Seas. In the Egyptian Coast, a few studies were conducted about the Bryozoa (Abdel-Salam & Ramadan, 2008 a, b;Abdel-Salam, 2014;Abdel-Salam et al, 2017). Moreover, the fauna associated with bryozoans has not been the subject of any study along the Mediterranean coast of Egypt.…”