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On 14 July 2007 two metamorphosed males of the Po brook lamprey, Lethenteron zanandreai (Vladykov, 1955), were caught in the Hutovo Blato wetland, Neretva River basin (Adriatic Sea watershed) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the first report on the occurrence of this species in the waters of Bosnia and Herzegovina. New evidence of their original distributional range extended eastward is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The occurrence of an early life stage of the king of herrings, Regalecus glesne Ascanius, 1772, is reported for the first time from the Adriatic waters. A single larva (SL = 103.4 mm) was found alive in the waters of open Adriatic near a remote Island Palagruža. Findings of early life stages of this species are very rare in the Mediterranean and have previously been reported only from the waters of the Strait of Sicily and Elba Island. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One specimen of the dusky spinefoot, Siganus luridus (Rüppell, 1829) (?, total length = 17.3 cm, total weight = 87.61 g), a lessepsian migrant, was captured in the Mljet Channel (Southern Adriatic, Croatian coast) on 15 November 2010. This is the second record of this species from the Adriatic, but first well documented and based on the captured specimen. First record occurred earlier in the Northern Adriatic, but was based solely on underwater observations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One specimen (TL = 532 mm, W = 662 g) of the yellowmouth barracuda, Sphyraena viridensis, was caught by an angler on 3 August 2008 in front of the Port of Rijeka (Northern Adriatic). Being caught at the geographic latitude of 45°17′N, makes this record the northernmost occurrence of this species in the Mediterranean. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]