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Received: 28 March 2024

Revised: 2 December 2024

Accepted: 3 December 2024

First Online: 8 February 2025

Declarations

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: The authors declare no competing interests.

: The authors declare they have followed all applicable international and national guidelines for sampling, care, and experimental use of organisms for this study, and all necessary approvals have been obtained. Samples were collected under the Resolution of the Territorial Delegate for Sustainable Development of the Junta de Andalucía in Granada authorizing sampling along the coast of Granada provided by Junta de Andalucía and the permission SGBTM/BDM/AUTSPP/28/2022 provided by the general sub-direction of terrestrial and marine biodiversity of the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographical Challenge, following the procedures exposed on these resolutions. Documentary evidence is available on request.

: All necessary permits for sampling and observational field studies have been obtained by the authors from the competent authorities and are mentioned in the acknowledgements, if applicable. The study is compliant with CBD and Nagoya protocols.

: The datasets generated during the current study are available in the NCBI GenBank repository. Samples are available to re-analyses on the collection of the Museo del Mar de Ceuta on a reasonable request.

: Alfredo Rosales Ruiz, Oscar Ocaña, Roberto de la Herrán, Carmelo Ruiz Rejón, and Francisca Robles conceived and designed this research. Samples were collected by Alfredo Rosales Ruiz, Oscar Ocaña, and Ander Congil Ross. Oscar Ocaña conducted the morphological studies. Genetic lab works were performed by Alfredo Rosales Ruiz, Roberto de la Herrán, and Francisca Robles, being the results analyzed also by Rafael Navajas-Pérez and Carmelo Ruiz Rejón. Alfredo Rosales Ruiz and Oscar Ocaña wrote the manuscript. All authors read and approved the manuscript.