Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species

Michail Ragkousis, Argyro Zenetos, Jamila Ben Souissi, Razy Hoffman, Raouia Ghanem, Ergün Taşkın, Mihaela Muresan, Evgeniia Karpova, Elena Slynko, Ertan Dağlı, Ana Fortič, Victor Surugiu, Vesna Mačić, Domen Trkov, Wafa Rjiba Bahri, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Alfonso A. Ramos-Espla, Slavica Petović, Jasmine Ferrario, Agnese MarchiniRenato Sconfietti, Izdihar Ammar, Alaa Alo, Dori Edelist, Tatiana Begun, Adrian Teaca, Gokhan Tari, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Paraskevi K. Karachle, Aikaterini Dogrammatzi, Giorgos A. Apostolopoulos, Fabio Crocetta, Eleni Kytinou, Markos Digenis, Grigorios Skouradakis, Fiona Tomas, Michel Bariche, Alexandros Kaminas, Kassiani Konida, Alan Deidun, Alessio Marrone, Simonetta Fraschetti, Vesselina Mihneva, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla Morri, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Lovrenc Lipej, Maria Sini, Luisa Mangialajo, Maria Zotou, Marius Skolka, Ernesto Azzurro, Adriana Vella, Thanos Dailianis, Panos Grigoriou, Carlos Jimenez, Konstantinos Tsirintanis, Georgios Oikonomidis, Emanuele Mancini, Orestis Papadakis, Vincenzo Di Martino, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Mohamed Mourad Ben Amor, Emmanouela Vernadou, Yaprak Arda, Vasileios Minasidis, Annalisa Azzola, Louis Hadjioannou, Monica Montefalcone, Yacopo Baldacchino, Bessy Stancanelli, Andrea Bonifazi, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Sonia Smeraldo, Julian Evans, Gerasimos Kondylatos, Manuela Falautano, Luca Castriota, Aggelos Lamprou, Jamila Rizgalla, Borut Mavrič, Evangelos Papadimitriou, Diego K. Kersting, Patrick J. Schembri, Faten Khamassi, Athanasios Nikolaou, Enric Ballesteros, Charalampos Dimitriadis, María García, Athanasios Anastasiadis, Stefanos Kalogirou, Melina Nalmpanti, María Altamirano, Daniele Grech, Dimitrios Mavrouleas, Noel Vella, Sandra Agius Darmanin, Branko Dragičević, Dimitris Poursanidis, Alexandros Tsatiris, Maria Corsini-Foka, Martina Orlando- Bonaca, Gianni Insacco, Alexandros Tsalapatis, Danilo Scannella, Francesco Tiralongo, Jana Verdura, Sergio Vitale, Michail Aggelos Valsamidis, Hocein Bazairi, Anna Maria Mannino, Riccardo Virgili, Fabio Collepardo Coccia, Radhouan El Zrelli, Savvas Nikolidakis, Lotfi Jilani Rabaoui, Sercan Yapıcı, Jeanne Zaouali, Bruno Zava, Neophytos Agrotis, Murat Bilecenoglu, Melih Ertan Çinar, Manos L. Moraitis, Paolo G. Albano, Nassir Kaddouri, Ioanna Kosma, Fabio Falsone, Valentina Fossati, Michele Luca Geraci, Leon Lojze Zamuda, Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Antonis Petrou, Vasilis Resaikos, İlker Aydın, Ioannis E. Batjakas, Arthur R. Bos, Najib El Ouamari, Giovanni Giallongo, Thodoros E. Kampouris, Khadija Ounifi Ben Amor, Alper Doğan, Jakov Dulčić, Emine Şükran Okudan, Gil Rilov, Antonietta Rosso, Laura Royo, Mohamed Selfati, Martina Gaglioti, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Vasiliki Kousteni, Dragoș Micu, Mircea Nicoară, Sotiris Orfanidis, Magdalene Papatheodoulou, Jonathan Tempesti, Maria Triantaphyllou, Theodora Tsourou, Ferhat Yalgın, Emanuel Baltag, Hasan Cerim, Halit Filiz, Constantinos G. Georgiadis, Paschalis Papadamakis, Dimitra Lida Rammou, Manuela Diana Samargiu, Francesco Sciuto, Mauro Sinopoli, Ali Türker, Antonia Chiarore, Laura Tamburello, Sahar Karray, Bilel Hassen, Stelios Katsanevakis

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Abstract

To enrich spatio-temporal information on the distribution of alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, a collective effort by 173 marine scientists was made to provide unpublished records and make them open access to the scientific community. Through this effort, we collected and harmonized a dataset of 12,649 records. It includes 247 taxa, of which 217 are Animalia, 25 Plantae and 5 Chromista, from 23 countries surrounding the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Chordata was the most abundant taxonomic group, followed by Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Annelida. In terms of species records, Siganus luridus, Siganus rivulatus, Saurida lessepsianus, Pterois miles, Upeneus moluccensis, Charybdis (Archias) longicollis, and Caulerpa cylindracea were the most numerous. The temporal distribution of the records ranges from 1973 to 2022, with 44% of the records in 2020–2021. Lethrinus borbonicus is reported for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea, while Pomatoschistus quagga, Caulerpa cylindracea, Grateloupia turuturu, and Misophria pallida are first records for the Black Sea; Kapraunia schneideri is recorded for the second time in the Mediterranean and for the first time in Israel; Prionospio depauperata and Pseudonereis anomala are reported for the first time from the Sea of Marmara. Many first country records are also included, namely: Amathia verticillata (Montenegro), Ampithoe valida (Italy), Antithamnion amphigeneum (Greece), Clavelina oblonga (Tunisia and Slovenia), Dendostrea cf. folium (Syria), Epinephelus fasciatus (Tunisia), Ganonema farinosum (Montenegro), Macrorhynchia philippina (Tunisia), Marenzelleria neglecta (Romania), Paratapes textilis (Tunisia), and Botrylloides diegensis (Tunisia).

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)339-369
Number of pages31
JournalBioInvasions Records
Volume12
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023

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Keywords

  • Black Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • distribution
  • geo-referenced records
  • invasive alien species
  • non-indigenous
  • non-native species

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecology

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