1. Department of Maritime Civilizations and The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies; The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences; Faculty of Natural Sciences; University of Haifa; Mount Carmel; Haifa; 31905; Israel
2. National Institute of Oceanography; Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research; Tel-Shikmona; Haifa; 31080; Israel
3. Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology; the Hebrew University; Jerusalem; 91904; Israel
4. The Maritime Studies Program; Williams College - Mystic Seaport; P. O. Box 6000, 75 Greenmanville Avenue; Mystic; CT; 06355; USA