Macroalgal diversity of Santa Cesarea-Castro (Salento Peninsula, southeastern Italy)

Abstract

The benthic macroalgal flora from the eastern Ionian coastal area of the Peninsula Salentina is scarcely studied. This study gives a contribution to the knowledge on its biodiversity in this area, which also includes marine caves, and the geographical distribution of some interesting species. A total of 174 macroalgae (119 Rhodophyta, 27 Ochrophyta, and 28 Chlorophyta) were identified. Six species are first records for the region, one of which, Liagora ceranoides, represents a new record for the Italian flora. The vegetation of most of the wave-exposed rocky substrata, as well as of the two sulphureous caves at Santa Cesarea Terme is characterised by extensive populations of Corallinales. The chorological spectrum of the flora shows a high occurrence of Indo-Pacific and Circumtropical elements, thus resulting more similar to that of floras of the Greek Ionian Sea

High Amounts of Halogenated Natural Products in Sperm Whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from Two Italian Regions in the Mediterranean Sea

“…The occurrence of MHC-1 has been linked with the presence of its producer Plocamium cartilagineum . This red seaweed is known to occur throughout the Mediterranean Sea including the Adriatic, the Tyrrhenian and the Ionian Sea (Figure , A, T, and I). − Assumedly, Plocamium cartilagineum was less prevalent on the east coast of Italy; however, the number of samples was small. , In addition, MHC-1 was found to be unevenly distributed in the marine environment . In agreement with that, fish from the Mediterranean Sea (Italy and Greece) contained between not detectable and 52 ng/g lipid MHC-1 compared to slightly more (1.1–130 ng/g lipids MHC-1) in dolphins from the Alboran Sea (Figure , Al). , Apparently, MHC-1 was unevenly distributed in the Mediterranean Sea like in other marine regions.…”

Re-examination of the distribution and species diversity of the genus Padina (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) in the Mediterranean Sea

“…Syracuse: Brucoli, Augusta Distribution in the Mediterranean Sea:-GREECE (Ni-Ni-Win et al 2011a, Catra & Alongi 2013, Tsiamis et al 2013. ITALY (Ni-Ni-Win et al 2011a, Bottalico et al 2016. SPAIN (Gómez Gómez et al 2015).…”

<i>Halopteris filicina</i> (PHAEOPHYCEAE: SPHACELARIALES), A NEW RECORD FOR MEXICO

“…In the Atlantic, it is known from the Azores Islands (Tittley & Neto, 1994), the Scandinavian Peninsula (Athanasiadis, 1996), the Bahamas (Ballantine & Aponte, 2003), Florida (Dawes & Mathieson, 2008), Brazil (Menezes-Széchy & Paula, 2010), Spain (Afonso-Carrillo, 2014), the Great Britain (Bunker et al, 2017), Morocco (Moussa et al, 2018) and France (Burel et al, 2019). Furthermore, the species has been found in the Mediterranean: in Egypt (Aleem, 1993), Libya and Tunisia (Ribera et al, 1992), Malta (Cormaci et al, 1997), Slovenia (Rindi & Battelli, 2005), Israel (Einav & Israel, 2008), (Taskin et al, 2008), Spain (Joher et al, 2012), Greece (Tsiamis et al, 2013), Algeria (Ould-Ahmed et al, 2013), Cyprus (Tsiamis et al, 2014) and Italy (Bottalico et al, 2016). In the Indian Ocean, the species has been reported from South Africa (Silva et al, 1996) and the Arabian Sea (Wynne, 2018).…”