“…It is known from southern France (Reys, 1964), southwestern Italy (G.W. Miiller, 1894;Puri et al, 1964), the Adriatic Sea (Masoli, 1968;Uffenorde, 1972;, coasts of Greece (Barbeito-Gonzalez, 1971), western Turkey (Doruk, 1974) and Lebanon (Bonaduce et al, 1970) as well as the northern coasts of Africa: Egypt (Malz & Lord, 1988), Libya (Bonaduce & Pugliese, 1975), Tunisia (Lachenal, 1989) and Algeria (Yassini, 19796) (cf. Fig.…”