The Impact of the Lessepsian (Suez Canal) Fish Migration on the Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem

Aliens in Egyptian Mediterranean waters. A check-list of Erythrean fish with new records

“…TORTONESE (1964) estimated the Indo-Pacific immigrant fish species to be about 30 for a Mediterranean total of about 550. BEN-TUVIA (1985) listed 41 species including the records of MOUNEIMNE (1977). In their Atlas of Exotic fish species in the Mediterranean, GOLANI et al (2002) reported 59 exotic species for an estimated Mediterranean total of 650, which is almost 10% of the population.…”

Trophic relationships of colonizing and indigenous goatfishes (Mullidae) in the eastern Mediterranean with special emphasis on decapod crustaceans

“…Two species of goatfishes (Mullidae), the goldband goatfish Upeneus moluccensis (Bleeker, 1855) and the brownband goatfish Upeneus asymmetricus Lachner, 1954, are among the Red Sea colonizers of the Mediterranean (Ben-Tuvia, 1985), where they encountered two indigenous confamilial species, the red mullet, Mullus barbatus Linnaeus, 1758 and the striped mullet, Mullus surmuletus Linnaeus, 1758.…”

Marine animal assemblages along the littoral of the Israeli Mediterranean seashore: The Red‐Mediterranean Seas communities of species

“…7) found on the kurkar plates at nights occupies a microhabitat not used by other crabs. The importance of this migration is even more prominently demonstrated in the fish populations and, as shown by Ben-Tuvia (1985) and Spanier et al (1985Spanier et al ( , 1989, in some instances 41% of the fish catch is formed by RS species. According to various sources, the RS immigrants along the continental shelf of the EM include about 90 species of molluscs, possibly about 70 species of brittle-worms, 50 species of fishes, 40 species of decapod crustaceans, 12 species of echinoderms, and various others.…”