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Issue: Vol. 4092 No. 4: 18 Mar. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-03-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4092.4.3
Page range: 518–528
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Grandidierella bonnieroides Stephensen, 1948 (Amphipoda, Aoridae)—first record of an established population in the Mediterranean Sea

Dept. STeBiCeF, Section of Animal Biology, University of Palermo, via Archirafi 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy.
Dept. STeBiCeF, Section of Animal Biology, University of Palermo, via Archirafi 18, 90123 Palermo, Italy.
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, 31080 Haifa, Israel.
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, 31080 Haifa, Israel.
Crustacea Amphipoda Grandidierella bonnieroides Invasive Alien Species (IAS) Mediterranean Sea

Abstract

The first record in the Mediterranean Sea of the invasive aorid amphipod crustacean Grandidierella bonnieroides is presented. A widespread circumtropical species, recorded off the Saudi coast of the Arabian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, it may have been introduced into the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. This tube-builder species of soft bottoms recently established a population in the polluted Haifa Bay, Israel. Further, this is the first Mediterranean record of the genus.

 

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