Zoogeographic patterns of Red Sea fishes – are they correlated to success in colonization of the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal?

Golani, Daniel; Fricke, Ronald; Appelbaum-Golani, Brenda

doi:10.1080/17451000.2021.1894340

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“…A recent invader to the Mediterranean. Widely distributed in the eastern Atlantic from south-western Ireland to Morocco and Senegal, as well as in seas of the Mediterranean Basin (Adriatic, Aegean, Marmara Seas, and the Bosporus) and in the Black Sea (Golani et al 2006). Its first records in the Black Sea are confined to coastal waters of Ukraine near Sevastopol in Martynova Cove from 2002.…”

Section: Gobius Cruentatus Gmelin 1789mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The current composition of the family Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 (Actinopterygii) in waters of Ukraine with comments on species distributions

Manilo¹

2020

GEO&BIO

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The current composition of the family Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 (Actinopterygii) in waters of Ukraine with comments on species distributions. -L. Manilo. -The present paper is devoted to a literature-based retrospective analysis of changes in the species composition of the family Gobiidae of waters of Ukraine since the 1930s. Keys and checklists published earlier cover the fish fauna of separate regions of Ukraine, either only of river basins or of coastal waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. The first checklist of fishes of Ukraine was published by academician A. M. Nikolsky in 1930 including both freshwater and marine species known in that time. In that work, the family Gobiidae includes 23 species of 7 genera. In the paper by D. A. Tretyakov (1947), 23 species of 10 genera of true gobies are listed for waters of Ukraine with some changes in the species composition. In one of the volumes of the series "Fauna of Ukraine. Fishes" devoted to true gobies (Smirnov 1986), data on 25 species of 11 genera are presented. According to the data by Yu. Movchan (2011), the composition of the family largely expanded comprising 33 species of 13 genera, including 5 marine species that were recorded in that time in coastal waters of the Crimea as well as 1 newly described species from the Chorna River. Later, five more marine species, known earlier only in the Mediterranean Basin, were found in waters of Ukraine, as well as another species in the Sea of Azov. It was established that the current fish fauna of the family Gobiidae of Ukraine includes 38 species of 17 genera, according to the literature and data from the fish collection of the National Museum of Natural History NAS of Ukraine (Kyiv). The geographic range and distribution of each species in waters of Ukraine are presented. The fauna of true gobies of Ukraine is composed of species of the Ponto-Caspian (52.6 %) and Atlantic-Mediterranean (47.4 %) faunal complexes. Endemics (4 species) are highlighted along with recent intruders of the Black Sea that have appeared here since the early 2000s (8 species); the time of appearance for 2 species remains unknown.

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Section: Gobius Cruentatus Gmelin 1789mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A recent invader of the Mediterranean Basin. It was known as an endemic of the Aegean and Adriatic Seas (Miller 1986;Golani et al 2006;Kovačić 2008). It was also found near Ibiza (Fischer et al 2007), Corsica, and near the entrance to the Dardanelles (Bogorodsky et al 2010).…”

Section: Millerigobius Macrocephalus (Kolombatovič 1891)mentioning

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The current composition of the family Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 (Actinopterygii) in waters of Ukraine with comments on species distributions

Manilo¹

2020

GEO&BIO

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“…On the other hand, the Suez Canal is considered a wormhole for bringing in marine alien invaders from the Red Sea into the Mediterranean Sea (MedECC, 2020). More than 600 invasive species, among them above 120, have flowed into the Mediterranean Sea, establishing populations in their new environment, potentially threatening the region's fisheries, endemic biodiversity, tourism, and human health (Fitt, 2020;Golani et al, 2020;Kovacic et al, 2021). The other concern is the permanent colonies of poisonous species that have neurotoxins such as tetrodotoxin in their skin, ovaries, liver, and reproductive organs that can kill an adult at a dosage of as little as 2 mg (Noguchi and Ebesu, 2001).…”

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The invasive silver-cheeked toadfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) appeared in the Sea of Marmara after more than a decade: A call for awareness

Bal

Khan

2022

EgeJFAS

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This study presents a new locality record of poisonous pufferfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789), one of the 18 worst invader fish species identified globally by IUCN, from the Sea of Marmara caught by a commercial purse seine fishing vessel while fishing anchovy on 22 February 2021. Previously, this invasive species was first recorded at the Gelibolu peninsula in the Sea of Marmara between September 2007 and October 2008. Lagocephalus sceleratus recorded in this study is larger in size with 142 mm total length than previous records (126 mm in 2007; 95 mm in 2008) for the Sea of Marmara. The presently reported record represents the first documented occurrence of this species in the Erdek Bay of the Sea of Marmara and the third documented record for the entire Sea of Marmara.

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“…Since the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, it has provided a significant and suitable pathway for the invasion of many alien species that penetrated the Mediterranean. To date, more than 600 invasive species, among them 104 fish species, have spread into the Mediterranean, establishing populations in their new habitat (Golani et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…P. lineatus was previously known only from the Red Sea (Goren and Dor, 1994). This species was later recorded from Mediterranean waters (Golani, 2002;Golani et al, 2020). According to Golani (2002), P. lineatus was entered through Suez Canal into the Mediterranean Sea and it is recorded second alien catfish after Arius parki in the Mediterranean waters.…”

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Occurrence of Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) from the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey

Bayhan

Ergüden

2022

Marine and Life Sciences

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A single specimen of striped eel fish Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) has been captured in August 2022 from Mersin Bay, at 3 m depth. This study reveals the second record from Turkish waters and the first occurrence from northeastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey (Mersin Bay). This species has been formed in this region, indicating that its trend has the potential to spread westward along the northern side of coast of Turkey. Besides, this species also first successive alien plotosid recorded from Mediterranean marine waters of Turkey. All measurements and counts as well as color descriptions of P. lineatus agree with previous descriptions.

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Zoogeographic patterns of Red Sea fishes – are they correlated to success in colonization of the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal?

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

The current composition of the family Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 (Actinopterygii) in waters of Ukraine with comments on species distributions

The current composition of the family Gobiidae Cuvier, 1816 (Actinopterygii) in waters of Ukraine with comments on species distributions

The invasive silver-cheeked toadfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) appeared in the Sea of Marmara after more than a decade: A call for awareness

Occurrence of Plotosus lineatus (Thunberg, 1787) from the northeastern Mediterranean coast of Turkey

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