Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources.
- Publications
- Influence
Hitch-hikers of the sea: concurrent morphological and molecular identification of Symplegma brakenhielmi (Tunicata: Ascidiacea) in the western Mediterranean Sea
- F. Mastrototaro, F. Montesanto, +4 authors C. Gissi
- Biology
- 10 May 2019
We report here one of the first records of the non-indigenous colonial ascidian Symplegma brakenhielmi in the western Mediterranean Sea. Colonies of this invasive species were collected in 2014 and… Expand
New Alien Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (October 2020)
- Michail Ragkousis, N. Abdelali, +32 authors A. Zenetos
- Geography
- 30 October 2020
This article includes 23 new records of alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea, belonging to 4 Phyla (Chordata, Echinodermata, Arthropoda and Mollusca), distributed from the Alboran… Expand
Finding of the macrophagous deep-sea ascidian Dicopia antirrhinum Monniot, 1972 (Chordata: Tunicata) in the Tyrrhenian Sea and updating of its distribution
- F. Mastrototaro, G. Chimienti, +5 authors Ricardo Aguilar
- Geology
- 1 January 2019
Abstract This study reports the in situ observations of a deep-sea ascidian, Dicopia antirrhinum (family Octacnemidae), on the deep seabed off the Aeolian Islands (Tyrrhenian Sea), between 569 and… Expand
New data on Aplidium tabarquense (Tunicata: Ascidiacea)distribution in the Adriatic Sea
- S. Petović, F. Grieco, V. Mačić, F. Montesanto, F. Mastrototaro
- Geography
- 10 January 2018
The colonial ascidian Aplidium tabarquense Ramos-Espla 1991 was recorded in Montenegro during a monitory survey carried out by scuba divers on an underwater outfall of the wastewater discharge system… Expand
Prioritizing invasive alien species in Italy: screening of marine alien species
- A. Marchini, A. Cardeccia, +24 authors A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi
- Geography
- 2018
Mesophotic rocks dominated by Diazona violacea: a Mediterranean codified habitat
- F. Mastrototaro, R. Aguilar, +5 authors G. Chimienti
- Geography
- 1 January 2020
Abstract The football ascidian Diazona violacea was observed in three different sites in the Aeolian Archipelago (Southern Tyrrhenian Sea), from 53 to 116 m depth. A large population of this ascidian… Expand