Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species

Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta.

KATSANEVAKIS Stelios;  POURSANIDIS Dimitrios;  HOFFMAN Razy;  RIZGALLA Jamila;  ROTHMAN Shevy Bat-Sheva;  LEVITT-BARMATS Ya'Arit;  HADJIOANNOU Louis;  TRKOV Domen;  GARMENDIA Joxe Mikel;  RIZZO Miraine;  BARTOLO Angela G.;  BARICHE M.;  TOMAS Fiona;  KLEITOU Periklis;  SCHEMBRI P.J.;  KLETOU Demetris;  TIRALONGO F.;  PERGENT Christine;  PERGENT Gerard;  AZZURRO Ernesto;  BILECENOGLU M.;  LODOLA Alice;  BALLESTEROS E.;  GEROVASILEIOU Vassilis;  VERLAQUE M.;  OCCHIPINTI-AMBROGI Anna;  KYTINOU Eleni;  DAILIANIS Thanos;  FERRARIO Jasmine;  CROCETTA Fabio;  JIMENEZ Carlos;  EVANS Julian;  RAGKOUSIS Michail;  LIPEJ L.;  BORG Joseph A.;  DIMITRIADIS C;  CHATZIGEORGIOU Giorgos;  ALBANO Paolo;  KALOGIROU Stefanos;  BAZAIRI Hocein;  ESPINOSA Free;  BEN SOUISSI J.;  TSIAMIS Konstantinos;  BADALAMENTI Fabio;  LANGENECK Joachim;  NOEL Pierre;  DEIDUN Alan;  MARCHINI Agnese;  SKOURADAKIS Grigorios;  ROYO Laura;  SINI Maria;  BIANCHI Carlo Nike;  SGHAIER Yassine Ramzi;  GHANEM Raouia;  DOUMPAS Nikos;  ZAOUALI J.;  TSIRINTANIS Konstantinos;  PAPADAKIS Orestis;  MORRI Carla;  CINAR M.E.;  TERRADOS Jorge;  INSACCO Gianni;  ZAVA Bruno;  SOUFI-KECHAOU Emna;  PIAZZI Luigi;  BEN AMOR Khadija Ounifi;  ANDRIOTIS Emmanouil;  GAMBI M.C.;  BEN AMOR Mohamed Mourad;  GARRABOU Joaquim;  LINARES Cristina;  FORTIČ Ana;  DIGENIS Markos;  CEBRIAN Emma;  FOURT Maïa;  ZOTOU Maria;  CASTRIOTA Luca;  DI MARTINO Vincenzo;  ROSSO A.;  PIPITONE Carlo;  FALAUTANO Manuela;  GARCÍA María;  ZAKHAMA-SRAIEB Rym;  KHAMASSI Faten;  MANNINO Anna Maria;  KTARI Mohamed Hédi;  KOSMA Ioanna;  RIFI Mouna;  KARACHLE Voula;  YAPICI Sercan;  BOS Arthur R.;  BALISTRERI P;  RAMOS-ESPLÁ A.A.;  TEMPESTI Jonathan;  INGLESE Omar;  GIOVOS Ioannis;  DAMALAS Dimitrios;  BENHISSOUNE Said;  HUSEYINOGLU Mehmet Fatih;  RJIBA-BAHRI Wafa;  SANTAMARÍA Jorge;  ORLANDO-BONACA Martina;  IZQUIERDO Andres;  STAMOULI Caterina;  MONTEFALCONE Monica;  CERIM Hasan;  GOLO Raül;  TSIOLI Soultana;  ORFANIDIS Sotiris;  MICHAILIDIS Nikolas;  GAGLIOTI Martina;  TASKIN E.;  MANCUSO Emilio;  ŽUNEC Ante;  CVITKOVIĆ Ivan;  FILIZ H.;  SANFILIPPO Rossana;  SIAPATIS Apostolis;  MAVRIČ B;  KARAA Sami;  TÜRKER Ali;  MONNIOT Françoise;  VERDURA Jana;  EL OUAMARI Najib;  SELFATI Mohamed;  ZENETOS Argyro; 

2020-05-08

REGIONAL EURO-ASIAN BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS CENTRE-REABIC

JRC119944

2242-1300 (online),   

https://www.reabic.net/journals/bir/2020/Issue2.aspx,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC119944,   

10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.01 (online),