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Additional records of Bregmaceros atlanticus in the eastern Mediterranean—an invasion through the Suez Canal or in ballast water?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Menachem Goren  and
Bella S. Galil
Menachem Goren*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Bella S. Galil
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological ResearchPOB 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Menachem Goren, Department of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The recent findings of several specimens of the antenna codlet, Bregmaceros atlanticus, in shallow waters off the Israeli and Turkish coasts raise the question of their origin. It is considered unlikely that these records indicate the existence of a small native population in the Mediterranean. Though unrecorded from the Red Sea, it may be yet another Erythrean alien, or it may have entered the Mediterranean in ballast water.

Keywords

Bregmaceros atlanticusBregmacerotidaeeastern Mediterraneaninvasive species
Type
Research Article
Information
Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e42
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2006

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