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During the VI Iter Mediterraneum, held in Aspromonte (South Italy) in 1997, Paralemanea catenata (Kutzing) Vis & Sheath, type species of the genus, was recorded for the tirst time from Italian Peninsula. Samples were collected in the Listem stream, a not summer-drying torrent located below the Basilicò mountain at about 1400 m a.l.s. Lemanea fluviatilis (Linnaeus) C. Agardh \was collected together with Paralemanea catenata, and that is the first record from Calabria. Comparative obscrvations, both morphological and anatomical. was carried out on thalli of both species.