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First record of the Indo-Pacific species Electroma vexillum (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pterioida) in the eastern Mediterranean

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2009

Cem Çevik ,
Alper Dogan ,
Mesut Önen  and
Argyro Zenetos
Cem Çevik*
Affiliation:
Çukurov University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Marine Biology, 01330 Balcali, Adana, Turkey
Alper Dogan
Affiliation:
Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Hydrobiology, 35100, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
Mesut Önen
Affiliation:
Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Hydrobiology, 35100, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey
Argyro Zenetos
Affiliation:
Hellenic Centre for Marine Reseach, 19013 Anavyssos, Greece
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Cem Çevik, Çukurova University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Marine Biology, 01330 Balcali, Adana, Turkey email: cem95@cu.edu.tr
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Abstract

Iskenderun Bay (north-west Levantine Sea) is intensely industrialized but it is oil pollution that affects most of the coastal and marine ecosystems in the area. Molluscan species diversity in the bay is changing rapidly over the last decades due to the introduction of non-indigenous species of Indo-Pacific origin. To date, 67 of the 181 recorded molluscan species are aliens (37%), a percentage by far higher than anywhere reported. A population of the bivalve Electroma vexillum, whose original distribution is the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea, was encountered and recorded for the first time in 2002 in the discharge canals of the Iskenderun Iron and Steel Factory. The distribution of E. vexillum was very restricted in the canal, presumably limited by the temperature (23–36°C). Its occurrence is attributed to shipping.

Keywords

alien molluscaElectroma vexillumIskenderunMediterranean
Type
Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e1
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2005

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