Accelerated anthropogenic changes in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) have facilitated introduction, spread and establishment of invasive copepod species this region. Here, we report introduction two non-native cyclopoid copepods Dioithona oculata Oithona davisae for first time Israeli coastal waters describe their temporal variability. The were identified by morphological characteristics, D...

Abstract Nautiloids were subordinate inhabitants of Middle Devonian Rhenish reefs and in surrounding neritic carbonate facies. However, a literature review shows the presence more than 45 orthoconic, cyrtobreviconic, gyroconic taxa, which are mostly insufficiently known. We report first discovery an orthobreviconic representative order Discosorida from initial phase (Binolen Member) thick Hagen...

Abstract Knowledge of stock structure is a priority for effective assessment commercially-fished cephalopods. Loligo forbesii squid are thought to migrate inshore breeding and offshore feeding long-range movements implied from past studies showing genetic homogeneity in the entire neritic population. Only populations (Faroe Rockall Bank) were considered distinct. The present study applied mitch...

Abstract The impact of the occurrence non-indigenous species (NIS) Acartia tonsa , Oithona davisae and Pseudodiaptomus marinus range-expanding copepods bifilosa Calanipeda aquaedulcis on structure diversity zooplankton communities was analyzed using 18 years (1998–2015) time series from contrasting estuaries Bilbao Urdaibai (Basque coast, Bay Biscay). Changes in were assessed by multivariate an...

The fossiliferous middle Eocene deposits of Sylhet Limestone Mikir Hills have yielded vertebrate and invertebrate faunas. fossil assemblages recorded in this contribution consist shark, ray, crocodile, conical tooth, broken fragments echinoderm spines. Ray crocodile tooth are reporting for the first time from Hills. Paleoenvironmental analysis based on fish assemblage association with (foramini...

Understanding recruitment in demersal fish requires determination of larval survival and delivery to appropriate settling habitats. Sanddabs Citharichthys sp. are an abundant neritic fish of Central California, an area of persistent upwelling. ‘Upwelling shadows’ develop in the lee of coastal promontories, retain surface waters, and may promote spatial variation in fish settlement. To test this...