“…In the Mediterranean Sea, although many studies focus on PAH contamination in benthic organisms such as mollusks (Cocchieri et al, 1990;Ausili et al, 1996;Minier et al, 2006;Perugini et al, 2007;Galgani et al, 2011;León et al, 2013;Mercogliano et al, 2016), crustaceans (Porte and Albaiges, 1993;Perugini et al, 2007;Costa et al, 2016), and fishes (Baumard et al, 1998;Perugini et al, 2007;Solé et al, 2013;Guerranti et al, 2016;Ferrante et al, 2018;Frapiccini et al, 2018Frapiccini et al, , 2020, no study has yet been performed on corals.…”