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Title: Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species
Authors: Katsanevakis, Stelios
Poursanidis, Dimitris
Hoffman, Razy
Rizgalla, Jamila
Bat-Sheva Rothman, Shevy
Levitt- Barmats, Ya’arit
Hadjioannou, Louis
Trkov, Domen
Garmendia, Joxe Mikel
Rizzo, Miraine
Bartolo, Angela G.
Espinosa, Free
Souissi, Jamila Ben
Tsiamis, Konstantinos
Badalamenti, Fabio
Langeneck, Joachim
Bianchi, Carlo Nike
Noel, Pierre
Ghanem, Raouia
Deidun, Alan
Soufi-Kechaou, Emna
Amor, Khadija Ounifi Ben
Marchini, Agnese
Skouradakis, Grigorios
Royo, Laura
Doumpas, Nikos
Zaouali, Jeanne
Tsirintanis, Konstantinos
Papadakis, Orestis
Morri, Carla
Piazzi, Luigi
Çinar, Melih Ertan
Andriotis, Emmanouil
Zotou, Maria
Martino, Vincenzo Di
Terrados, Jorge
Insacco, Gianni
Zava, Bruno
Gambi, Maria Cristina
Amor, Mohamed Mourad Ben
Garrabou, Joaquim
Castriota, Luca
Linares, Cristina
Rosso, Antonietta
Fortič, Ana
Yapici, Sercan
Balistreri, Paolo
Digenis, Markos
Cebrian, Emma
Fourt, Maïa
Pipitone, Carlo
García, María
Zakhama-Sraieb, Rym
Khamassi, Faten
Mannino, Anna Maria
Bos, Arthur R.
Hédi Ktari, Mohamed
Ramos Esplá, Alfonso A.
Orlando-Bonaca, Martina
Stamouli, Caterina
Kosma, Ioanna
Rifi, Mouna
Karachle, Paraskevi K.
Tempesti, Jonathan
Inglese, Omar
Giovos, Ioannis
Izquierdo, Andres
Damalas, Dimitrios
Montefalcone, Monica
Benhissoune, Said
Cvitković, Ivan
Sanfilippo, Rossana
Huseyinoglu, Mehmet Fatih
Rjiba-Bahri, Wafa
Santamaría, Jorge
Cerim, Hasan
Golo, Raül
Tsioli, Soultana
Orfanidis, Sotiris
Michailidis, Nikolas
Filiz, Halit
Gaglioti, Martina
Siapatis, Apostolos
Bariche, Michel
Kleitou, Periklis
Taşkın, Ergün
Mancuso, Emilio
Žunec, Ante
Mavrič, Borut
Karaa, Sami
Türker, Ali
Tomas, Fiona
Monniot, Françoise
Schembri, Patrick J.
Verdura, Jana
Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Anna
Dailianis, Thanos
Ouamari, Najib El
Selfati, Mohamed
Zenetos, Argyro
Kletou, Demetris
Tiralongo, Francesco
Pergent, Christine
Pergent, Gerard
Azzurro, Ernesto
Kytinou, Eleni
Bilecenoglu, Murat
Ferrario, Jasmine
Lodola, Alice
Kalogirou, Stefanos
Ballesteros, Enric
Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
Verlaque, Marc
Crocetta, Fabio
Jimenez, Carlos
Evans, Julian
Ragkousis, Michail
Lipej, Lovrenc
Bazairi, Hocein
Borg, Joseph A.
Sini, Maria
Sghaier, Yassine Ramzi
Dimitriadis, Charalampos
Chatzigeorgiou, Giorgos
Albano, Paolo G.
Keywords: Introduced organisms -- Mediterranean Sea
Science -- Mediterranean Region
Science -- Methodology -- Case studies
Records -- Management
Issue Date: 2020
Publisher: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre - REABIC
Citation: Katsanevakis, S., Poursanidis, D., Hoffman, R., Rizgalla, J., Rothman, SB-S., Levitt-Barmats, Y.,...Zenetos, A. (2020). Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species. BioInvasions Records, 9(2), 165-182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.01
Abstract: Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/54717
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