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Malleus regula

(Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Mollusca » Ostreida » Malleidae » Malleus regula
Ηabitat
A: Marine
Global distribution

Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone 833 3; Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone 36978 0; Mediterranean Sea 1618 0; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 612 2; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 4484 0

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Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
1970
Online resource
http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605717
Pathway
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull
6 UNAIDED - Natural dispersal across border of IAS that have been introduced through pathways 1-5 - Nat
Pathway detail

transported in ballast water in larval stages; attachment to ship hulls

Other notes

1st Med record: 1929

1st Med country: Lebanon

References

Demetropoulos A (1971) Marine Molluscs of Cyprus, Part B, Bivalvia (Lamellibranchiata). Some Additions to Part A. (Placophora, Gastropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda). A Check List of Cyprus Molluscs. Bulletin of the Department of Fisheries 3: 24 p.

Katsanevakis S, Tsiamis K, Ioannou G, Michailidis N, Zenetos A (2009) Inventory of alien marine species of Cyprus (2009). Mediterranean Marine Science 10(2): 109-134. https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.113

Zenetos A, Delongueville C, Scaillet R (2024) An Overlooked Group of Citizen Scientists in Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) Information: Shell Collectors and Their Contribution to Molluscan NIS Xenodiversity. Diversity 16: 299. https://doi.org/10.3390/d16050299

Michail C, Crocetta F, Zenetos A, Langeneck J, Tsiamis K, Tiralongo F, Kletou D, Constantinou G, Cai LL, Vasiliades L, Rousou M, Katsanevakis S, Tanduo V, Hadjieftychiou SI, Papageorgiou IV, Kleitou P (2026) Marine non-indigenous species of Cyprus: pathways, introduction dynamics, spatial patterns, and policy implications. Biological Invasions 28(97). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-026-03814-6

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