Farid Hemida

TL;DR: Morphological misidentifications were found across most orders, further confirming the need for a comprehensive DNA barcoding library as a valuable tool for the reliable identification of specimens in support of taxonomist who are reviewing current identification keys.

TL;DR: Neighbour-joining and maximum-parsimony analysis support the paraphyletic grouping of the Epinephelus and Mycteroperca analysed, and molecular clock estimates for the species suggest a divergence time of 20–24 mya, which coincides with the Miocene period.

TL;DR: The New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (NMBR) series as discussed by the authors includes new records of marine species found in the Mediterranean basin and/or information on the spatial distribution of already established species of particular interest.

TL;DR: The spinner shark, Carcharhinus brevipinna, is a Lessepsian immigrant formerly common in the Gulf of Gabes (southeastern Tunisia, central Mediterranean).

TL;DR: The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains over 3000 records (more than 4000 individuals) of large elasmobalranch species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017 as discussed by the authors.