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A round-the-world tour almost completed: first records of the invasive mussel Musculista senhousia in the north-east Atlantic (southern Bay of Biscay)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Guy Bachelet ,
Hugues Blanchet ,
Maud Cottet ,
Cécile Dang ,
Xavier de Montaudouin ,
Ana de Moura Queirós ,
Benoît Gouillieux  and
Nicolas Lavesque
Guy Bachelet*
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Hugues Blanchet
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Maud Cottet
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Cécile Dang
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Xavier de Montaudouin
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Ana de Moura Queirós
Affiliation:
Coastal Resource Ecology and Management, School of Ocean Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Menai Bridge, Anglesey, LL59 5AB, UK
Benoît Gouillieux
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
Nicolas Lavesque
Affiliation:
Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: G. Bachelet, Université Bordeaux 1, CNRS, UMR 5805 EPOC, Station Marine d'Arcachon, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, 33120 Arcachon, France email: g.bachelet@epoc.u-bordeaux1.fr
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Abstract

The Asian date mussel Musculista senhousia, previously recorded from the Pacific coast of North America, Australasia and the Mediterranean, is reported for the first time from the Atlantic coast of Europe in Arcachon Bay, where it occurs intertidally and to depths of 5 m. It has been present in Arcachon Bay since 2002 and has since been found in 2006 within two further inlets of the Bay of Biscay, Hossegor Lake and the Bidasoa estuary. Their appearance is probably associated with oyster transfer from Thau lagoon in the Mediterranean Sea to Arcachon Bay.

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Musculista senhousiabivalvesMytilidaenon-indigenous speciesBay of BiscayArcachon Bayoyster transfers

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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 2 , January 2009 , e119
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2009

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