Cycloscala hyalina (G.B. Sowerby II, 1844)

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

Cycloscala hyalina (G.B. Sowerby II, 1844)

New records.

Israel • 2 spcms; west of Rosh HaNikra Islands; 33.0704°N, 35.0926°E; depth 12 m; 29 Oct. 2018; rocky substrate; suction sampler; HELM project (samples S52_1M, S52_2F); size of largest specimen: H 3.7 mm, W 2.0 mm.

Remarks.

The species has been recently recorded for the Mediterranean Israeli coastline based on empty shells collected off the Soreq desalination plant, ~ 15 km south of Tel Aviv ( Scaperrotta et al. 2019). The species is also known from Cyprus ( Cecalupo and Quadri 1994), Turkey ( Giunchi et al. 2001), and Greece ( Scaperrotta et al. 2019). To our knowledge, this is the first record of living individuals in the Mediterranean Sea.