A pan-Mediterranean extinction? Pinna nobilis mass mortality has reached the Turkish straits system

The area was revisited in April 2020 and a devastating seascape was found, showing many hundreds of recently dead P. nobilis individuals, some still in an upright position and many resting on their valves throughout the sandy substrata and patchy Cymodocea nodosa meadows (Fig. 1). See PDF.] A devastating seascape: a dozens of dead adult Pinna nobilis showing opened valves but still holding their life position; b many of the dead individuals appear scattered on the sandy substrata and Cymodocea nodosa meadows. Notice the high density of individuals in the area and their sizes (> 50 cm) This record confirms the expansion of this devastating mass mortality event in the Aegean Sea and into the Dardanelles after the report by Katsanevakis et al.