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Project Biodiversity preservation in the Adriatic Sea - Contribution to the knowledge of Adriatic's Bryozoa

The project Biodiversity Preservation in the Adriatic Sea was created to promote special protection of selected areas (marine parks, fish reserves, special reserves etc.) along the Croatian coast of the Adriatic Sea, primarily aims to preserve and protect its biodiversity and enable undisturbed natural reproduction of the economically important marine species. Priority concerning census, research and inclusion into specially protected areas should be extended to open sea islands. In the framework of interdisciplinary research of the marine area of the island of Palagruža, special attention has been paid to the distribution and composition of benthic communities. The autors report the results of some new record of Bryozoa species in the littoral area of Palagruža island. Until now, the Bryozoa have not yet been systematically investigated along the Croatian (eastern) Adriatic coast. Former incompleteness of data on the presence of certain species, created the occasion to present the bryozoan community in the area recomended for special protection. Eighty three bryozoan species were determined, out of which 79 have not been prevoiusly recorded for the Plagruža aquatorium. The list of species for the Croatian coast was complemented by 35 new records, two of which – Escharoides megarostris (Canu & Bassler, 1928) and Palmicellaria skenei (Ellis & Solander, 1786) – were recorded in the Adriatic Sea for the first time.

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