Melis, R. & Vacca, L. & Cariani, A. & Carugati, L. & Cau, A. & Charilaou, C. & Di Crescenzo, S. & Ferrari, A. & Follesa, M.C. & Hemida, F. & Helyar, S. & Lo Brutto, S. & Sion, L. & Tinti, F. & Cannas, R. (2023)
Commercial sharks under scrutiny: Baseline genetic distinctiveness supports structured populations of small-spotted catsharks in the Mediterranean Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, Article 1050055
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2023.1050055
Melis, R. & Vacca, L. & Cariani, A. & Carugati, L. & Charilaou, C. & Di Crescenzo, S. & Ferrari, A. & Follesa, M.C. & Mancusi, C. & Pinna, V. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Tinti, F. & Cannas, R. (2023)
Baseline genetic distinctiveness supports structured populations of thornback ray in the Mediterranean Sea. Aquatic Conservation, Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 33(4), 1–14
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3939
Ferrari, A. & Crobe, V. & Cannas, R. & Leslie, R.W. & Serena, F. & Stagioni, M. & Costa, F.O. & Golani, D. & Hemida, F. & Zaera-Perez, D. & Sion, L. & Carbonara, P. & Fiorentino, F. & Tinti, F. & Cariani, A. (2023)
To Be, or Not to Be: That Is the Hamletic Question of Cryptic Evolution in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Raja miraletus Species Complex. Animals, 13(13), Article 2139
DOI: 10.3390/ani13132139
Ricci, P. & Sion, L. & Capezzuto, F. & Cipriano, G. & d'Onghia, G. & Libralato, S. & Maiorano, P. & Tursi, A. & Carlucci, R. (2021)
Modelling the trophic roles of the demersal Chondrichthyes in the Northern Ionian Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea). Ecological Modelling, 444, Article 109468
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109468
Carluccio, A. & Capezzuto, F. & Maiorano, P. & Sion, L. & D'Onghia, G. (2021)
Deep-Water Cartilaginous Fishes in the Central Mediterranean Sea: Comparison between Geographic Areas with Two Low Impact Tools for Sampling. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 9(7), Article 686
DOI: 10.3390/jmse9070686
Catalano, G. & Crobe, V. & Ferrari, A. & Baino, R. & Massi, D. & Titone, A. & Mancusi, C. & Serena, F. & Cannas, R. & Carugati, L. & Hemida, F. & Manfredi, C. & Melis, R. & Scarcella, G. & Sion, L. & Stagioni, M. & Tinti, F. & Cariani, A. (2021)
Strongly structured populations and reproductive habitat fragmentation increase the vulnerability of the Mediterranean starry ray Raja asterias (Elasmobranchii, Rajidae). Aquatic Conservation, Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 32(1), 66–84
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.3739
Mancusi, C. & Baino, R. & Fortuna, C. & de Sola, L. & Morey, G. & Bradai, M. & Kallianotis, A. & Soldo, A. & Hemida, F. & Saad, A. & Dimech, M. & Peristeraki, P. & Bariche, M. & Clò, S. & de Sabata, E. & Castellano, L. & Garibaldi, F. & Lanteri, L. & Tinti, F. & Pais, A. & Sperone, E. & Micarelli, P. & Poisson, F. & Sion, L. & Carlucci, R. & Cebrian-Menchero, D. & Séret, B. & Ferretti, F. & El-Far, A. & Saygu, I. & Shakman, E. & Bartoli, A. & Guallart, J. & Damalas, D. & Megalofonou, P. & Vacchi, M. & Bottaro, M. & Notarbartolo Di Sciara, G. & Follesa, M. & Cannas, R. & Kabasakal, H. & Zava, B. & Cavlan, G. & Jung, A. & Abudaya, M. & Kolitari, J. & Barash, A. & Joksimovic, A. & Marčeta, B. & Gonzalez Vilas, L. & Tiralongo, F. & Giovos, I. & Bargnesi, F. & Lelli, S. & Barone, M. & Moro, S. & Mazzoldi, C. & Charis, C. & Abella, A. & Serena, F. (2020)
MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas. Mediterranean Marine Science, 21(2), 276–288
DOI: 10.12681/mms.21148
Carbonara, P. & Bellodi, A. & Palmisano, M. & Mulas, A. & Porcu, C. & Zupa, W. & Donnaloia, M. & Carlucci, R. & Sion, L. & Follesa, M.C. (2020)
Growth and Age Validation of the Thornback Ray (Raja clavata Linnaeus, 1758) in the South Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean). Frontiers in Marine Science, 7, Article 586094
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2020.586094
Sion, L. & Calculli, C. & Capezzuto, F. & Carlucci, R. & Carluccio, A. & Cornacchia, L. & Maiorano, P. & Pollice, A. & Ricci, P. & Tursi, A. & d'Onghia, G. (2019)
Does the Bari Canyon (Central Mediterranean) influence the fish distribution and abundance? Progress in Oceanography, 170, 81–92
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.10.015
Follesa, M. & Marongiu, M. & Zupa, W. & Bellodi, A. & Cau, A. & Cannas, R. & Colloca, F. & Djurovic, M. & Isajlovic, I. & Jadaud, A. & Manfredi, C. & Mulas, A. & Peristeraki, P. & Porcu, C. & Ramírez-Amaro, S. & Salmerón Jiménez, F. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Thasitis, I. & Cau, An. & Carbonara, P. (2019)
Spatial variability of Chondrichthyes in the northern Mediterranean. Scientia Marina, 83(S1), 81–100
DOI: 10.3989/scimar.04998.23a
Carlucci, R. & Bandelj, V. & Ricci, P. & Capezzuto, F. & Sion, L. & Maiorano, P. & Tursi, A. & Solidoro, C. & Libralato, S. (2018)
Exploring spatio-temporal changes in the demersal and benthopelagic assemblages of the north-western Ionian Sea (central Mediterranean Sea), Marine Ecology Progress Series, 598, 1–19
DOI: 10.3354/meps12613
Ferrari, A. & Tinti, F. & Bertucci Maresca, V. & Velonà, A. & Cannas, R. & Thasitis, I. & Costa, F.O. & Follesa, M.C. & Golani, D. & Hemida, F. & Helyar, S.J. & Mancusi, C. & Mulas, A. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Stagioni, M. & Cariani, A. (2018)
Natural history and molecular evolution of demersal Mediterranean sharks and skates inferred by comparative phylogeographic and demographic analyses. PeerJ, 6, Article e5560
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5560
Cariani, A. & Messinetti, S. & Ferrari, A. & Arculeo, M. & Bonello, J.J. & Bonnici, L. & Cannas, R. & Carbonara, P. & Cau, A. & Charilaou, C. & El Ouamari, N. & Fiorentino, F. & Follesa, M.C. & Garofalo, G. & Golani, D. & Guarniero, I. & Hanner, R. & Hemida, F. & Kada, O. & Lo Brutto, S. & Mancusi, C. & Morey, G. & Schembri, P.J. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Stagioni, M. & Tursi, A. & Vrgoc, N. & Steinke, D. & Tinti, F. (2017)
Improving the Conservation of Mediterranean Chondrichthyans: The ELASMOMED DNA Barcode Reference Library. PLoS ONE, 12(1), Article e0170244
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170244
d'Onghia, G. & Calculli, C. & Capezzuto, F. & Carlucci, R. & Carluccio, A. & Maiorano, P. & Pollice, A. & Ricci, P. & Sion, L. & Tursi, A. (2016)
New records of cold-water coral sites and fish fauna characterization of a potential network existing in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology, 37(6), 1398–1422
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12356
d'Onghia, G. & Capezzuto, F. & Carluccio, A. & Carlucci, R. & Giove, A. & Mastrototaro, F. & Panza, M. & Sion, L. & Tursi, A. & Maiorano, P. (2015)
Exploring composition and behaviour of fish fauna by in situ observations in the Bari Canyon (Southern Adriatic Sea, Central Mediterranean). Marine Ecology, 36(3), 541–556
DOI: 10.1111/maec.12162
Serena, F. & Abella, A.J. & Baino, R. & Carbonara, P. & Facchini, M.T. & Ferrari, A. & Follesa, M.C. & Gangitano, V. & Garibaldi, F. & Manfredi, C. & Mancusi, C. & Sartor, P. & Sbrana, M. & Sion, L. & Tinti, F. (2014)
Preliminary considerations of the status of elasmobranchs in the Italian waters [Abstract]. In Programm and Abstracts of Shark International, Durban 2014: 159
Carlucci, R. & Battista, D. & Capezzuto, F. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. (2014)
Occurrence of the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, 1765) (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) in the central-eastern Mediterranean Sea. Italian Journal of Zoology, 81(2), 280–286
DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2014.910275
d'Onghia, G. & Maiorano, P. & Carlucci, R. & Capezzuto, F. & Carluccio, A. & Tursi, A. & Sion, L. (2012)
Comparing Deep-Sea Fish Fauna between Coral and Non-Coral "Megahabitats" in the Santa Maria di Leuca Cold-Water Coral Province (Mediterranean Sea). PLoS ONE, 7(9), Article e44509
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044509
Giove, A. & Carlucci, R. & Tursi, A. & d'Onghia, G. & Sion, L. (2011)
Efficacia del modello di crescita bifasico per Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758). [Effectiveness of two-phase growth model for Etmopterus spinax (Linnaeus, 1758).] Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 18(1), 142–143
Serena, F. & Ardizzone, D. & Baino, R. & Belluscio, A. & Bertrand, J. & Carbonara, P. & Cau, A. & de Ranieri, S. & Dimech, M. & d'Onghia, G. & Follesa, C. & Garofalo, G. & Gil de Sola, L. & Giordano, D. & Gristina, M. & Mannini, A. & Papacostantinou, C. & Pasolini, P. & Pastorelli, A.M. & Relini, G. & Rinelli, P. & Sartor, P. & Sion, L. & Spedicato, M.T. & Tinti, F. & Ungaro, U. (2011)
Considerations on the EU Project - Fish/2004/03-41: status of ray populations in the mediterranean sea and advice for sustainable exploitation of the stocks GFCM–Scientific Advisory Committee(SAC), Workshop on Stock Assessment of Selected Species of Elasmobranchs in the GFCM area Brussels(Belgium), 12 –16 December 2011. 36 pp.
Relini, G. & Mannini, A. & de Ranieri, S. & Bitetto, I. & Follesa, M.C. & Gancitano, V. & Manfredi, C. & Casciaro, L. & Sion, L. (2010)
Chondrichthyes caught during the medits surveys in Italian waters. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 17(1), 186–204
Carlucci, R. & Capezzuto, F. & Battista, D. & Panza, M. & Sion, L. (2010)
Occurrence of juveniles of Scyliorhinus canicula and Mustelus mustelus in the north-western Ionian Sea. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 17(1), 244–245
Cariani, A. & Nero, A. & Arculeo, M. & Bertucci, V. & Cannas, R. & Cau, A. & Charilaou, C. & Dimech, M. & Fiorentino, F. & Follesa, M. & Galafassi, D. & Garofalo, G. & Golani, D. & Gravino, F. & Hemida, F. & Knittweis, L. & Lo Brutto, S. & Mancusi, C. & Manfredi, C. & Morey, G. & Mulas, A. & Najib, E. & Piccinetti, C. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Stagioni, M. & Steinke, D. & Vrogc, N. & Tinti, F. (2010)
DNA barcoding of the Mediterranean chondrichthyans (ELASMOMED). Program and Abstracts of the 14th European Elasmobranch Association(EEA) Scientific Conference 10–13th November 2010, Galway(Ireland): 57
Cariani, A. & Nero, A. & Arculeo, M. & Bertucci, V. & Cannas, R. & Cau, A. & Charilaou, C. & Dimech, M. & Fiorentino, F. & Follesa, M. & Galafassi, D. & Garofalo, G. & Golani, D. & Gravino, F. & Hemida, F. & Knittweis, L. & Lo Brutto, S. & Mancusi, C. & Manfredi, C. & Morey, G. & Mulas, A. & Najib, E. & Piccinetti, C. & Serena, F. & Sion, L. & Stagioni, M. & Steinke, D. & Vrogc, N. & Tinti, F. (2010)
DNA barcoding of the Mediterranean chondrichthyans (ELASMOMED). Book of Abstracts of the ECBOL2, 2nd Conference for the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life, 2–4 June 2010, Braga(Portugal): 10
Maiorano, P. & Sion, L. & Indennidate, A. & Giove, A. & d'Onghia, G. (2009)
Comparison of the sizes and abundances in fish species between habitats with and without deep-sea corals. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 16(1), 42–43
Mytilineou, C. & Politou, C.-Y. & Papaconstantinou, C. & Kavadas, S. & d'Onghia, G. & Sion, L. (2005)
Deep-water fish fauna in the Eastern Ionian Sea. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 135(2) , 229–233
d'Onghia, G. & Politou, C.-Y. & Bozzano, A. & Lloris, D. & Rotllant, G. & Sion, L. & Mastrototaro, F. (2004)
Deep-water fish assemblages in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina, 68(Suppl 3), 87–99
Sion, L. & Bozzano, A. & d'Onghia, G. & Capezzuto, F. & Panza, M. (2004)
Chondrichthyes species in deep waters of the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina, 68(Suppl 3), 153–162
Sion, L. & d'Onghia, G. & Tursi, A. (2003)
First Data on Distribution and Biology of Squalus blainvillei (Risso, 1826) from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science, 31, 213–219
Sion, L. & d'Onghia, G. & Tursi, A. & Matarrese, A. (2003)
Annotated check list of the skates (Chondrichthyes, Rajidae) in the North-Western Ionian Sea. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 10(2), 935–940
Sion, L. & d'Onghia, G. & Carlucci, R. (2000)
A simple technique for ageing the velvet belly shark, Etmopterus spinax (Squalidae). Proceedings of the 4th European Elasmobranch Association Meeting, Livorno, (Italy) 2000, 135–139
Relini, G. & Biagi, F. & Serena, F. & Belluscio, A. & Spedicato, M.T. & Rinelli, P. & Follesa, M.C. & Piccinetti, C. & Ungano, N. & Sion, L. & Levi, D. & G.R.U.N.D.(Gruppo Nazionale Risorse Demersali) (2000)
I selaci pescati con lo strascico nei mari italiani. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 7(1), 347–384
Sion, L. & d'Onghia, G. & Basanisi, M. & Panza, M. (2000)
Distribuzione dei selaci sui fondi strascicabili del Mar Ionio nord-occidentale. Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 7(1), 455–460
d'Onghia, G. & Matarrese, A. & Tursi, A. & Sion, L. (1995)
Observations on the depth distribution pattern of the small-spotted catshark in the North Aegean Sea. Journal of Fish Biology, 47(3), 421–426
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8649.1995.tb01911.x