Gari pallida (Deshayes, 1855)

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

Gari pallida (Deshayes, 1855)

New records.

Israel • 6 spcms; Ashqelon; 31.7002°N, 34.5498°E; depth 21 m; 18 Sep. 2016; sand; grab; HELM project (samples SG20_1F, SG20_3F, SG20_3M).

Remarks.

A single living individual of this species has been recently reported from Palmachim, along the southern Mediterranean coast of Israel, representing the first record from the Mediterranean Sea ( Lubinevsky et al. 2018). We here confirm the establishment of this species by reporting six further living individuals, again from southern Israel.