In the article by Francisco J. García-Purriños (from Hospital del Mar Menor, Murcia, Spain), the ‘‘Material and Methods’’ section reads ‘‘From the anatomical pathology records, we selected all patients with definitive positive biopsy for benign tumour of the parotid gland, from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2005, to keep track of the evolution of patients for a minimum of 3 years. Of these, we ...

Climate change is making intense DANA (depresión aislada en niveles altos) type rains a more frequent phenomenon in Mediterranean basins. This trend, combined with the transformation of territory derived from diffuse anthropization processes, has created an explosive cocktail for many coastal towns due to flooding events. To evaluate this problem and impact its main guiding parameters, geostati...

Along the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula, great species diversity is thought to exist, but our knowledge of Iberian polyclads is, in fact, very limited. This study contributes to the Polycladida (Platyhelminthes) of the Iberian Peninsula, in particular those of the Mediterranean coast. Nine species, mainly new species or new records, are described. Imogine stellae sp. nov. from Ma...

Pinna nobilis (Linnaeus, 1758) is the largest bivalve endemic to Mediterranean. It distributed in a wide range of coastal environments, including estuaries. has recently become critically endangered species (with almost 100% mortality) along entire Spanish Mediterranean coast. This may be due coinfections caused by Haplosporidium pinnae and bacterial pathogens such as Mycobacterium spp. We exte...

During recent years, several eutrophication processes and subsequent environmental crises have occurred in Mar Menor, the largest hypersaline coastal lagoon Western Mediterranean Sea. In this study, Landsat-8 Sentinel-2 satellites are jointly used to examine evolution of main water quality descriptors during latest ecological crisis 2021, resulting an important loss benthic vegetation unusual m...

This work presents the last contributions incorporated into AUV Guanay II, these have been emerged after some test fields, tests in the swimming pool and in the ocean, such as Mar Menor and Mar Mediterrani. These improvements are: First in the communication and control systems, for a more fluid communication a WiFi system has been incorporated, this allows access to PC-104 of Guanay II without ...