“…From the early 20 th century, Politis (1925Politis ( , 1932Politis ( , 1953, Katsikopoulos (1939) and Diannelidis (1935Diannelidis ( , 1950Diannelidis ( , 1953, also contributed to seaweed research along the Greek coasts. However, the most important studies have been carried out after the 1970s, mainly in the Aegean Sea (Anagnostidis, 1968;Nizamuddin & Lehnberg, 1970;Coppejans, 1974;Diannelidis et al, 1977;Haritonidis, 1978;Tsekos et al, 1982;Athanasiadis, 1987;Lazaridou, 1994;Chryssovergis, 1995;Catra & Giardina, 2009;Tsiamis et al, 2010a), but less in the Ionian Sea (Haritonidis & Tsekos, 1976;Schnetter & Schnetter, 1981;Tsirika & Haritonidis, 2005).…”