Volume 9, Issue 2

Published in June 2020


Contents

Research articles

 

Stelios Katsanevakis, Dimitris Poursanidis, Razy Hoffman, Jamila Rizgalla, Shevy Bat-Sheva Rothman, Ya’arit Levitt-Barmats, Louis Hadjioannou, Domen Trkov, Joxe Mikel Garmendia, Miraine Rizzo, Angela G. Bartolo, Michel Bariche, Fiona Tomas, Periklis Kleitou, Patrick J. Schembri, Demetris Kletou, Francesco Tiralongo, Christine Pergent, Gérard Pergent, Ernesto Azzurro, Murat Bilecenoglu, Alice Lodola, Enric Ballesteros, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Marc Verlaque, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi, Eleni Kytinou, Thanos Dailianis, Jasmine Ferrario, Fabio Crocetta, Carlos Jimenez, Julian Evans, Michail Ragkousis, Lovrenc Lipej, Joseph A. Borg, Charalampos Dimitriadis, Giorgos Chatzigeorgiou, Paolo G. Albano, Stefanos Kalogirou, Hocein Bazairi, Free Espinosa, Jamila Ben Souissi, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Fabio Badalamenti, Joachim Langeneck, Pierre Noel, Alan Deidun, Agnese Marchini, Grigorios Skouradakis, Laura Royo, Maria Sini, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Yassine-Ramzi Sghaier, Raouia Ghanem, Nikos Doumpas, Jeanne Zaouali, Konstantinos Tsirintanis, Orestis Papadakis, Carla Morri, Melih Ertan Çinar, Jorge Terrados, Gianni Insacco, Bruno Zava, Emna Soufi-Kechaou, Luigi Piazzi, Khadija Ounifi Ben Amor, Emmanouil Andriotis, Maria Cristina Gambi, Mohamed Mourad Ben Amor, Joaquim Garrabou, Cristina Linares, Ana Fortič, Markos Digenis, Emma Cebrian, Maïa Fourt, Maria Zotou, Luca Castriota, Vincenzo Di Martino, Antonietta Rosso, Carlo Pipitone, Manuela Falautano, María García, Rym Zakhama-Sraieb, Faten Khamassi, Anna Maria Mannino, Mohamed Hédi Ktari, Ioanna Kosma, Mouna Rifi, Paraskevi K. Karachle, Sercan Yapıcı, Arthur R. Bos, Paolo Balistreri, Alfonso A. Ramos Esplá, Jonathan Tempesti, Omar Inglese, Ioannis Giovos, Dimitrios Damalas, Said Benhissoune, Mehmet Fatih Huseyinoglu, Wafa Rjiba-Bahri, Jorge Santamaría, Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Andres Izquierdo, Caterina Stamouli, Monica Montefalcone, Hasan Cerim, Raül Golo, Soultana Tsioli, Sotiris Orfanidis, Nikolas Michailidis, Martina Gaglioti, Ergün Taşkın, Emilio Mancuso, Ante Žunec, Ivan Cvitković, Halit Filiz, Rossana Sanfilippo, Apostolos Siapatis, Borut Mavrič, Sami Karaa, Ali Türker, Françoise Monniot, Jana Verdura, Najib El Ouamari, Mohamed Selfati, Argyro Zenetos
Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species (pp 165-182)

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Jamila Rizgalla and Fabio Crocetta
First confirmed record of the ragged sea hare Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 in Libyan waters (pp 183-188)

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David Osca and Fabio Crocetta
The ivory barnacle Amphibalanus eburneus (Gould, 1841) (Arthropoda: Hexanauplia: Sessilia) in Albania (Adriatic Sea) (pp 189-194)

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Giuliana Marletta and Andrea Lombardo
Undergoing invasion of the fangtooth moray Enchelycore anatina (Lowe, 1838) in the western Ionian Sea, Central Mediterranean (pp 195-203)

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Ernesto Azzurro, Michel Bariche, Jacopo Cerri and Joaquim Garrabou
The long reach of the Suez Canal: Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) an unwanted Indo-Pacific pest at the Atlantic gate (pp 204-208)

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Athanasios Evagelopoulos, Andreas Nikolaou, Nikolas Michailidis, Thodoros E. Kampouris and Ioannis E. Batjakas
Progress of the dispersal of the alien goatfish Parupeneus forsskali (Fourmanoir & Guézé, 1976) in the Mediterranean, with preliminary information on its diet composition in Cyprus (pp 209-222)

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Alan Deidun and Bruno Zava
Far from home....the first documented capture of the genus Elops (Actinopterygii, Elopidae) from the Mediterranean (pp 223-227)

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Romain Ferry, Laurent Hubert, Véronique Philippot, Fabienne Priam and Juliette Smith
First record of the non-indigenous brittle star species Ophiothela mirabilis Verrill, 1867 (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), off Martinique Island, French Lesser Antilles (pp 228-238)

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Jean-Philippe Pezy, Aurore Raoux and Jean-Claude Dauvin
First record of the non-native isopod Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909 in the English Channel (pp 239-248)

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Lisa Schüler, Jan Leitinger and Anja Schanz
First record of the Japanese cumacean Nippoleucon hinumensis (Gamô, 1967) (Crustacea: Cumacea: Leuconidae) from Europe (pp 249-258)

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Antoni Box, Víctor Colomar, Antoni Sureda, Silvia Tejada, Verónica Nuñez-Reyes, Amanda Cohen-Sanchez, Toni Avila, Vicent Forteza, Marta Castello, Nuria Valverde and Samuel Pinya
Next step of the colonization of the Balearic Islands (Spain) by invasive Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) (pp 259-265)

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Darryl L. Felder and Amanda M. Windsor
Introduced Hemigrapsus oregonensis (Dana, 1851) formerly colonized an inland Texas salt spring, as now underpinned by COI barcode sequence analysis (pp 266-278)

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Bruno Damasceno Cordeiro, Athila Andrade Bertoncini, Felipe Eloy Abrunhosa, Luana Santos Corona, Francisco Gerson Araújo and Luciano Neves dos Santos
First report of the non-native gulf toadfish Opsanus beta (Goode & Bean, 1880) on the coast of Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (pp 279-286)

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Rafael Lacerda Macêdo, Ana Clara S. Franco, Gabriel Klippel, Ewerton F. Oliveira, Lúcia Helena S. Silva, Luciano Neves dos Santos and Christina W.C. Branco
Small in size but rather pervasive: the spread of the North American rotifer Kellicottia bostoniensis (Rousselet, 1908) through Neotropical basins (pp 287-302)

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Liron Goren, Tamar Feldstein and Yaron Hershkovitz
First report of the non-native freshwater polychaete Namalycastis hawaiiensis (Johnson, 1903) (Nereididae: Namanereidinae) in Israel (pp 303-309)

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Naoto Sawada, Haruhiko Toyohara, Takuto Miyai and Takafumi Nakano
Further records of introduced Semisulcospira snails in Japan (Mollusca, Gastropoda): implications for these snails’ correct morphological identification (pp 310-319)

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Karina P. Battes, Éva Váncsa, Lucian Barbu-Tudoran and Mirela Cîmpean
A species on the rise in Europe: Sinodiaptomus sarsi (Rylov, 1923) (Copepoda, Calanoida), a new record for the Romanian crustacean fauna (pp 320-332)

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Corrado Battisti and Massimiliano Scalici
First records of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda Cambaridae) from a small circum-Sardinian island (central Mediterranean Sea) (pp 333-339)

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Arin Ngamniyom
First evidence of Craspedella pedum (Cannon and Sewell, 1995) (Platyhelminthes: Rhabdocoela) infesting alien red swamp crayfish with white spot syndrome virus infections collected from Thailand (pp 340-348)

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Mohamed Wajih Bouaoud, Faouzia Charfi-Cheikhrouha and Mohamed El Gtari
First record of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) (Decapoda: Astacidea: Cambaridae) in Tunisia (pp 349-356)

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José R. Tapia-Varela, Jesús T. Ponce-Palafox, Deivis S. Palacios-Salgado, Carlos A. Romero-Bañuelos, José T. Nieto-Navarro and Pedro Aguiar-García
Establishment of the exotic invasive redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (Von Martens, 1868) in the Coastal Plain of San Blas, Nayarit, SE Gulf of California, Mexico (pp 357-366)

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Frank Jordan, Leo G. Nico, Kristal Huggins, Peter J. Martinat, Dahlia A. Martinez and Victoria L. Rodrigues
Discovery of a reproducing wild population of the swamp eel Amphipnous cuchia (Hamilton, 1822) in North America (pp 367-374)

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Lukas Zangl, Michael Jung, Wolfgang Gessl, Stephan Koblmüller and Clemens Ratschan
Oriental or not: First record of an alien weatherfish (Misgurnus) species in Austria verified by molecular data (pp 375-383)

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Lukas Petrulaitis and Zigmantas Gudžinskas
The first records of two alien woody species, Cornus alternifolia and Cornus amomum, in Lithuania (pp 384-392)

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Franz Essl
The distribution of Sinacalia tangutica (Maxim.) B. Nord. in Austria (pp 393-398)

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Jans Morffe, Nayla García and Karin Breugelmans
First record of the terrestrial nemertean Geonemertes pelaensis Semper, 1863 (Hoplonemertea: Prosorhochmidae) for Cuba (pp 399-407)

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Ruchira Somaweera, Paul B. Yeoh, Tommaso Jucker, Rohan H. Clarke and Bruce L. Webber
Historical context, current status and management priorities for introduced Asian house geckos at Ashmore Reef, north-western Australia (pp 408-420)

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Carlos Cruz-Cordovez, Ileana Herrera, Felipe Espinoza, Kimberly Rizzo, María-Bethsabeth Sarmiento, Nicole Rodas, María-José Coello, Wilver Bravo and Margarita Lampo
New record of a feral population of Lithobates catesbeianus Shaw, 1802 in a protected area (Santay Island) in the Ecuadorian coast (pp 421-433)

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Pritpal S. Soorae, Greta J. Frankham and Ahmed Ali Mohamed
The first record of the Asian common toad Duttaphrynus melanostictus Schneider, 1799 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (pp 434-443)

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Kyo Soung Koo, Seoung-Min Park, Hee-Jin Kang, Hye-Rin Park, Jae Hyeok Choi, Joon-Seok Lee, Bong-Kyun Kim and Ha-Cheol Sung
New record of the non-native snapping turtle Chelydra serpentina (Linnaeus, 1758) in the wild of the Republic of Korea (pp 444-449)

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