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The occurrence of the Mediterranean soft coral Maasella edwardsi (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) in the Aegean Sea coasts of Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2015

H. Bariş Özalp  and
A. Suat Ateş
H. Bariş Özalp*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale 17100, Turkey
A. Suat Ateş
Affiliation:
Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale 17100, Turkey
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: H.B. Özalp, Faculty of Marine Science and Technology, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale 17100, Turkey email: barisozalp@comu.edu.tr
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Abstract

The Mediterranean endemic coral Maasella edwardsi (de Lacaze-Duthiers, 1888) is recorded for the first time from the Aegean Sea coasts of Turkey. A dozen colonies of the species were observed on rocks and the rhizomes of Posidonia oceanica meadows during the coral surveys carried out between 2012 and 2014. This record shows the northernmost occurrence of species in terms of geographic distribution in the Turkish coasts. The number of known species for the Anthozoan fauna of Turkey has increased to 76 with this new record.

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new recordMaasella edwardsiAnthozoanorth-eastern Aegean SeaTurkey

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 8 , 2015 , e55
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2015 

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