Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean sea

Galil, Bella S.

doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9253-y

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“…The presence of the same haplotypes in different invaded areas and in its natural distribution range suggests several invasion events. The Mediterranean Sea is one of the world's regions most affected by biological invasions (Galil 2009;Zenetos et al 2010), mainly since the opening of the Suez Canal. However, the presence of C. simula from the eastern Mediterranean Sea has not been reported, and the invasion of Atlantic localities cannot be explained by the hypothesis of a Lessepsian migration to the Mediterranean Sea.…”

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DNA barcoding reveals a cryptic nemertean invasion in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters

Fernández-Álvarez

Machordom

2013

Helgol Mar Res

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For several groups, like nemerteans, morphologybased identification is a hard discipline, but DNA barcoding may help non-experts in the identification process. In this study, DNA barcoding is used to reveal the cryptic invasion of Pacific Cephalothrix cf. simula into Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts. Although DNA barcoding is a promising method for the identification of Nemertea, only 6 % of the known number of nemertean species is currently associated with a correct DNA barcode. Therefore, additional morphological and molecular studies are necessary to advance the utility of DNA barcoding in the characterisation of possible nemertean alien invasions.

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DNA barcoding reveals a cryptic nemertean invasion in Atlantic and Mediterranean waters

Fernández-Álvarez

Machordom

2013

Helgol Mar Res

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“…The number of alien species in the Wadden Sea is close to average when compared to similar assessments in other coastal regions (Table 4). However, coastal regions with more active ports and/or shellfish farming (i.e., San Francisco Bay, Port Phillip Bay) or Mediterranean coasts adjacent to the Suez Canal (Galil, 2009) surpass the Wadden Sea in the number of nonnative taxa. In a comprehensive inventory of nonnative species in the coastal Netherlands, Wolff (2005) already pointed out that more aliens occurred in the small Oosterschelde estuary which is the centre of the Dutch shellfish culture than in the much larger Dutch Wadden Sea.…”

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Nonnative macrobenthos in the Wadden Sea ecosystem

Buschbaum

Lackschewitz

Reise

2012

Ocean & Coastal Management

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a b s t r a c tAn inventory in the Dutch-German-Danish Wadden Sea revealed a total of 66 nonnative (alien) taxa including 17 tentative cryptogenics in the brackish-marine macrobenthos until 2010, which is close to average compared with similar inventories from other coasts. Although the Wadden Sea is known for the largest sedimentary tidal flats in the world, most aliens encountered were fouling at harbor walls, pontoons in marinas, at hard structures for coastal defense but also in epibenthic mussel and oyster beds. Recent qualitative rapid assessments focusing on port localities have substantially improved knowledge on introduced species in the Wadden Sea. Nonnative species have pervaded algal and invertebrate communities, and the guild of suspension feeders became particularly strengthened by aliens which took advantage of a recent phase with relatively warm years. Most alien species were not directly introduced into the Wadden Sea but have spread secondarily from adjacent coasts with more active harbors or shellfish cultures. We suggest that aliens which have already established in the Wadden Sea ecosystem should be tolerated to avoid ongoing manipulations in eco-evolutionary developments in this protected nature area. Mitigation of the advancing tide of invasive aliens should focus on vector control (shipping and open aquacultures) as well as on early detection with attempts of eradication during the initial phase of invasions on a scale of the entire European Atlantic coast of which the Wadden Sea ecosystem is an integral part.

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“…The Mediterranean marine biota is well known for its complement of non-indigenous species (NIS) the bulk of which originate from the adjacent North East Atlantic or the Red Sea, to which the Mediterranean is connected via the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal, respectively (Zenetos et al 2005, Galil 2009). Such NIS enter the Mediterranean either due to a natural range extension or due to direct or indirect transport by humans.…”

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“…Such species include honeycomb grouper, Epinephelus merra Bloch, 1793, from the Indian/Pacific Ocean (Patrick Lelong, Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute, personal communication); dwarf flathead, Elates ransonnetti (Steindachner, 1876), from the Central Pacific (Mastrototaro et al 2007); muzzled blenny, Omobranchus punctatus (Valenciennes, 1836), from the Indo-Pacific outside the Red Sea; the circumtropical antenna codlet, Bregmaceros atlanticus Goode et Bean, 1886;and chameleon goby, Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill, 1859) from the West Pacific (Goren et al 2009). It could therefore be assumed that in such cases human transport is the most probable mode of introduction and the agents that have usually been implicated are aquaculture, the aquarium trade, and shipping (Golani et al 2002, Galil 2009, Goren et al 2009). …”

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