First record of the genus Paranebalia Claus, 1880 from the Mediterranean Sea (Crustacea: Leptostraca)

Benthic monitoring of the marine shallow bottoms off Menorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean) has yielded several specimens of the leptostracan genus Paranebalia Claus, 1880. This finding constitutes the first report of the genus from European latitudes and the Mediterranean Sea and therefore the third leptostracan genus known from the Mediterranean. Specimens are described, illustrated, and compared to other known species; they might represent a new species but their state of maturity and the lack of appropriate diagnosis for the type species of the genus, Paranebalia longipes (Willemoes-Suhm, 1875), did not allow confirmation of its taxonomic status.