New distributional and ecological data of some marine alien molluscs along the southern Italian coasts

Crocetta, Fabio; Renda, Walter; Colamonaco, Giuseppe

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“…During this period, several shells were found in Lake Fusaro, another local mussel culture site, by one of the authors (FC), but no living specimens have everbeen recorded at that locality. As already hypothesized in Crocetta et al (2009), the present finding in a mussel farm could presumably suggest continuous introduction of this species to the Gulf of Naples through aquaculture activities. Unfortunately, no effective benthic programs are carried out locally, and sightings of alien species are mostly due to accidental findings and citizen science.…”

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confidence: 81%

“…Up to date, invasion of this species in the Mediterranean is not as widespread as reported for the Atlantic. However, recent findings (CorsiniFoka & Kondylatos in Crocetta et al, 2015;Kletou et al, 2016) indicate a rapid increase in progress.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Its Italian distribution includes all the Adriatic shores up to Apulia, the Gulf of Taranto, the Messina Strait area and the eastern Sicilian coast, the Gulf of Naples, the Sabaudia Lake and Sardinia (Stasolla et al, 2014;Germanà, 2015, and references therein). Nevertheless, living specimens were found at each of these localities except for the Gulf of Naples, where the species had been known to exist only on the basis of two empty shells (Crocetta et al, 2009).…”

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“…The Moon crab Matuta victor (Fabricius, 1781) belongs to the family Matutidae De Haan, 1835 and is widely distributed in the Indo-Pacific (Gulf of Suez, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, East Africa, Madagascar, Comoro Is., Bay of Bengal, Andaman Sea, Malaysia, Indonesia, South China Sea, Japan, New Caledonia, Australia, New Hebrides) and in the Mediterranean Sea, where two specimens were collected in Haifa Bay (Israel) in 2012 (Galil & Mendelson, 2013), and several specimens have been sighted in Lebanon since 2013 (Crocetta & Bariche in Crocetta et al, 2015).…”

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“…The lionfish or devil firefish Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) originating in the Indian Ocean was observed for the first time in Greek waters in the summer of 2015 at the eastern part of Rodos island (Corsini-Foka & Kondylatos in Crocetta et al, 2015), while it is kept alive at the Rodos aquarium since early 2016. Herein, we refer to four captures of P. miles from the coasts of Kriti isl., all reported by artisanal fishermen.…”

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New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016)

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This contribution forms part of a series of collective articles published regularly in Mediterranean Marine Science that report on new biodiversity records from the Mediterranean basin. The current article presents 51 geographically distinct records for 21 taxa belonging to 6 Phyla, extending from the western Mediterranean to the Levantine. The new records, per country, are as follows: Spain: the cryptogenic calcareous sponge Paraleucilla magna is reported from a new location in the Alicante region. Algeria: the rare Atlanto-Mediterranean bivalve Cardium indicum is reported from Annaba. Tunisia: new distribution records for the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois miles from Zembra Island and Cape Bon. Italy: the ark clam Anadara transversa is reported from mussel cultures in the Gulf of Naples, while the amphipod Caprella scaura and the isopods Paracerceis sculpta and Paranthura japonica are reported as associated to the -also allochthonous-bryozoan Amathia verticillata in the Adriatic Sea; in the latter region, the cosmopolitan Atlantic tripletail Lobotes surinamensis is also reported, a rare finding for the Mediterranean. Slovenia: a new record of the non-indigenous nudibranch Polycera hedgpethi in the Adriatic. Greece: several new reports of the introduced scleractinian Oculina patagonica, the fangtooth moray Enchelycore anatina, the blunthead puffer Sphoeroides pachygaster (all Atlantic), and the lionfish Pterois miles (Indo-Pacific) suggest their ongoing establishment in the Aegean Sea; the deepest bathymetric record of the invasive alga Caulerpa cylindracea in the Mediterranean Sea is also registered in the Kyklades, at depths exceeding 70 m. Turkey: new distribution records for two non-indigenous crustaceans, the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (Atlantic origin) and the moon crab Matuta victor (Indo-Pacific origin) from the Bay of Izmir and Antalya, respectively; in the latter region, the Red Sea goatfish Parupeneus forsskali, is also reported. Lebanon: an array of records of 5 alien and one native Mediterranean species is reported by citizen-scientists; the Pacific jellyfish Phyllorhiza punctata and the Indo-Pacific teleosteans Tylerius spinosissimus, Ostracion cubicus, and Lutjanus argentimaculatus are reported from the Lebanese coast, the latter notably being the second record for the species in the Mediterranean Sea since 1977; the native sand snake-eel Ophisurus serpens, rare in the eastern Mediterranean, is reported for the first time from Lebanon, this being its easternmost distribution range; finally, a substantial number of sightings of the lionfish Pterois miles further confirm the current establishment of this lessepsian species in the Levantine.

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confidence: 97%

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confidence: 99%

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On the identity and origin of Anadara demiri (Bivalvia: Arcidae)

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Evangelisti

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Anadara demiri (Piani, 1981) is an alien species in the Mediterranean Sea extending its range from Turkey westernly to the Adriatic Sea, where it is locally abundant. The species was first identified as Arca amygdalum Philippi, 1847 in the 1970s. The locus typicus of A. amygdalum is China. This first identification has never been discussed and the species has been thought to be of Indo-Pacific origin to date. However, in the Indo-Pacific province no Anadara shows any similarity with A. demiri. Morphological and molecular data suggest A. demiri is closely related to Anadara transversa (Say, 1822), a common species of the eastern coasts of North America. Anadara demiri is hence considered a junior synonym of A. transversa and the origin of this immigration has to be searched in the southern range of this species, maybe the Gulf of Mexico coasts of Florida.

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Marine alien Mollusca in Italy: a critical review and state of the knowledge

Crocetta

2012

J. Mar. Biol. Ass.

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The state of the knowledge about the marine alien molluscan species from Italy is provided based on a critical review of records compiled from an extensive literature survey and from unpublished data obtained from 2005 to 2010. Based on the IUCN definition of ‘alien’, 35 molluscan taxa (18 Gastropoda, 16 Bivalvia and 1 Cephalopoda) are reported here, for each of which the following data (collected up to December 2010) are provided: published and unpublished records from the coastal and offshore territorial seawaters of Italy, including lagoons, within the 14 biogeographical sea divisions covering the Italian shores, date of first record, most plausible vector(s) of introduction and establishment status. The southern Ionian Sea, the northern Adriatic Sea and the eastern-central Tyrrhenian Sea resulted to be the areas most affected by alien molluscan introductions. The rate of records of new alien species (evaluated on the basis of live findings) is quite uniform over five decades, with six to eight species recorded per decade. The analysis of the vectors showed shipping/maritime transport to be the most common vector of introduction (40%), followed by trade (24%). Nineteen alien molluscan species (54%) were considered as established in Italy.

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New distributional and ecological data of some marine alien molluscs along the southern Italian coasts

Cited by 12 publications

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New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016)

New Mediterranean Biodiversity Records (July 2016)

On the identity and origin of Anadara demiri (Bivalvia: Arcidae)

Marine alien Mollusca in Italy: a critical review and state of the knowledge

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