Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)

Albano, Paolo G., Steger, Jan, Bakker, Piet A. J., Bogi, Cesare, Bosnjak, Marija, Guy-Haim, Tamar, Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih, LaFollette, Patrick I., Lubinevsky, Hadas, Mulas, Martina, Stockinger, Martina, Azzarone, Michele & Sabelli, Bruno, 2021, Numerous new records of tropical non-indigenous species in the Eastern Mediterranean highlight the challenges of their recognition and identification, ZooKeys 1010, pp. 1-95 : 1

Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)

New records.

Israel • 1 spcm; Haifa Bay; 32.8211°N, 35.0196°E; depth 11 m; 2 Aug. 2015; soft substrate; grab; NM project (station HM27).

Remarks.

Clementia papyracea has been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since 1937, but findings of living individuals are very scarce and limited to samples collected in 1968 in El Arish, Egypt ( Barash and Danin 1973), in 1975 in Haifa, Israel ( Barash and Danin 1977) and in 2012 in Ashqelon, Israel ( Crocetta et al. 2016). We here report a further living juvenile individual.