Volume 24, Issue 74, July - December, 2023

First record of Atlantic Sea anemone (Telmatactis panamensis (Verrill, 1869)) on the artificial reefs of the Syrian coast (Eastern Mediterranean)

Izzat Arabia^1♦, Izdihar Ammar², Abdel Latif Ali³

¹Phd student, Department of Marine Biology, High Institute of Marine Researches (HIMR), Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria
²Professor, Department of Marine Biology, High Institute of Marine Researches (HIMR), Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria
³Professor, General commission for fisheries resource and aquatic organisms, Latakia, Syria

^♦Corresponding author
Phd student, Department of Marine Biology, High Institute of Marine Researches (HIMR), Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria

ABSTRACT

One individual Telmatactis panamensis, has been found on the artificial reefs for the first time on the Syrian coast. We use the external anatomical taxonomy to classify the specimens of the species. This work constitutes the first study in the documentation of sea anemones in Syria.

Keywords: Benthic invertebrates, Eastern Mediterranean, artificial reefs, sea anemones, non-indigenous species, alien species

Species, 2023, 24(74), e85s1597

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi.v24i74.e85s1597

Published: 31 October 2023