Morphological and Molecular Data Reveal the Presence of the Invasive <i>Artemia franciscana</i> in Margherita di Savoia Salterns (Italy)

Mura, Graziella; Kappas, Ilias; Baxevanis, Athanasios D.; Moscatello, Salvatore; D'Amico, Quirico; López, Germán; Hontoria, Francisco; Amat, Francisco; Abatzopoulos, Theodore J.

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“…Furthermore, within the TSL-complex, the Titicaca and Surire populations seem closer to each other than to the Licancábur population, and this agrees with their geographical distribution. Although a clear association between geographical and morphological distance has been previously documented in freshwater microcrustaceans (Hebert et al, 2002;Declerck & Weber, 2003;Mura et al, 2006), the use of molecular systematic analyses to determine the species boundaries in freshwater calanoid copepods are scarce. Adamowicz et al (2007) used cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI), to evaluate the fit between molecular systematic and morphological patterns in Argentine populations of the family Centropagidae, including members of the Boeckella genus.…”

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Morphological and molecular analysis of centropagids from the high Andean plateau (Copepoda: Calanoidea)

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In small metazoan invertebrates classical taxonomic analyses can be ambiguous due to the limited number of morphological characters available. This difficulty can yield incorrect estimates of species richness or taxa distribution. The Boeckella genus has been described as the dominant taxon of zooplankton assemblages in the Andean biogeographical region. In this genus, taxonomic classification and delimitation of boundaries between species has long been problematic and controversial. Among South American centropagids Boeckella gracilipes has been regarded as one of the most broadly distributed species, its presence having been reported from Ecuador to Tierra del Fuego. However, in the high Andean plateau some centropagid populations identified as Boeckella gracilipes have also been considered as B. gracilipes titicacae or even identified as a different species, namely Boeckella titicacae. In an attempt to resolve the taxonomic status of the Centropagidae family from the high Andean plateau, we combined traditional and multivariate morphological analyses (integral approach) with the molecular phylogenetic approach. The results obtained allow us to conclude that centropagids collected from the high Andean plateau actually represent a different species, B. titicacae, not B. gracilipes. The phylogenetic reconstruction of the South American Centropagidae family indicated that B. gracilipes represents a sister taxon to B. titicacae. The present study stresses the usefulness of integrating alfa-taxonomy with morphometric and molecular approaches in order to resolve species boundaries, to determine geographical distributions and to investigate evolutionary processes.

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Morphological and molecular analysis of centropagids from the high Andean plateau (Copepoda: Calanoidea)

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“…Accidental transport, in association with both fish (for aquaculture or stock enhancement) and crops, especially rice, has been the main vector of invertebrate introductions. Only the crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus seems to have been intentionally released in the wild by fishermen (Capurro et al 2007), whereas Artemia franciscana, first introduced as fish food, subsequently spread at a wide regional scale using waterfowl as vectors (Mura et al 2006).…”

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Animal xenodiversity in Italian inland waters: distribution, modes of arrival, and pathways

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The paper provides a list of the non-indigenous animal species occurring today in Italian inland waters. Xenodiversity was found to amount to 112 species (64 invertebrates and 48 vertebrates), which contribute for about 2% to the inland-water fauna in Italy. Northern and central regions are most affected, and Asia, North America, and the rest of Europe are the main donor continents. The large majority of non-indigenous species entered Italy as a direct or indirect effect of human intervention. A difference between invertebrates and vertebrates was found for their mode of arrival (unintentional for invertebrates and intentional for vertebrates). Accidental transport, in association with both fish (for aquaculture or stock enhancement) and crops, has been the main vector of invertebrate introductions, whereas vertebrates were mostly released for stocking purposes. Overall stock enhancement (47.92%) and culture (37.5%) prevailed over the other pathways. Seventeen and 7 species of our list are included among the 100 worst invasive species of Europe (DAISIE) and of the world (IUCN), respectively. For some (but not all) non-indigenous species recorded in Italy the multilevel impact exerted on the recipient communities and ecosystems is known, even if rarely quantified, but knowledge on their chronic impact is still missing. Additional research is needed to provide criteria for prioritizing intervention against well established invaders and identify which new potential invader should be targeted as "unwanted"

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“…The latest records are the shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus (Torres et al, 2012) in the WMED, and two parasitic copepods, Caligus fugu and Taeniacanthus lagocephali, caught on a Lessepsian puffer fish in the EMED (Özak et al, 2012). We have added the unusual finding of the brine shrimp Artemia franciscana in the saltworks of Margherita di Savoia, Apulia (Mura et al, 2006 (Bianchi & Morri, 1996). Phyllodoce longifrons has been known from the EMED since 1976 (Ben Eliahu, 1976), but has been just recognised as an alien by .…”

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Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2012. A contribution to the application of European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part 2. Introduction trends and pathways

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More than 60 marine non-indigenous species (NIS) have been removed from previous lists and 84 species have been added, bringing the total to 986 alien species in the Mediterranean [775 in the eastern Mediterranean (EMED), 249 in the central Mediterranean (CMED), 190 in the Adriatic Sea (ADRIA) and 308 in the western Mediterranean (WMED)]. There were 48 new entries since 2011 which can be interpreted as approximately one new entry every two weeks. The number of alien species continues to increase, by 2-3 species per year for macrophytes, molluscs and polychaetes, 3-4 species per year for crustaceans, and 6 species per year for fish. The dominant group among alien species is molluscs (with 215 species), followed by crustaceans (159) and polychaetes (132). Macrophytes are the leading group of NIS in the ADRIA and the WMED, reaching 26-30% of all aliens, whereas in the EMED they barely constitute 10% of the introductions. In the EMED, molluscs are the most species-rich group, followed by crustaceans, fish and polychaetes. More than half (54%) of the marine alien species in the Mediterranean were probably introduced by corridors (mainly Suez). Shipping is blamed directly for the introduction of only 12 species, whereas it is assumed to be the most likely pathway of introduction (via ballasts or fouling) of another 300 species. For approximately 100 species shipping is a probable pathway along with the Suez Canal and/or aquaculture. Approximately 20 species have been introduced with certainty via aquaculture, while >50 species (mostly macroalgae), occurring in the vicinity of oyster farms, are assumed to be introduced accidentally as contaminants of imported species. A total of 18 species are assumed to have been introduced by the aquarium trade. Lessepsian species decline westwards, while the reverse pattern is evident for ship-mediated species and for those introduced with aquaculture. There is an increasing trend in new introductions via the Suez Canal and via shipping.

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Morphological and Molecular Data Reveal the Presence of the Invasive Artemia franciscana in Margherita di Savoia Salterns (Italy)

Cited by 48 publications

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Morphological and molecular analysis of centropagids from the high Andean plateau (Copepoda: Calanoidea)

Morphological and molecular analysis of centropagids from the high Andean plateau (Copepoda: Calanoidea)

Animal xenodiversity in Italian inland waters: distribution, modes of arrival, and pathways

Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2012. A contribution to the application of European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part 2. Introduction trends and pathways

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