Contribution to the knowledge of the benthic marine flora along the eastern coastline of the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea).
Contribution to the knowledge of the benthic marine flora along the eastern coastline of the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea).
The results of a floristic study along the eastern coastline of the Gulf of Taranto (lonian Sea) are presented. The list consists of 119 taxa at specific and infraspecific level: 79 Rhodophyta, 18 Phaeophyceae (Heterokontophyta), 20 Chlorophyta and 2 Phanerogams. Of these, 6 (3 Rhodophyta, 2 Phaeophyceae and 1 Chlorophyta) are newly reported from the Apulian lonian coasts.