Brachidontes pharaonis
Aegean Sea 692 2; Aegean Sea 65481 0; Egypt 201 1; Egypt 1732 0; Maltese Exclusive Economic Zone 843 3; Maltese Exclusive Economic Zone 36868 0; Mediterranean Sea 1618 0; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 612 2; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 4484 0; Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin 611 2; Mediterranean Sea - Western Basin 4481 0; North Atlantic Ocean 645 2; North Atlantic Ocean 349 0
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Occurs in shallow and sheltered marine areas and in hypersaline waters (> 45 PSU). It can live in polluted waters and very high temperatures.
Alien: Invasive
Suez Canal; Transported in ballast water in microscopic stage of life history or as fragments; attachment to ship hulls
1st Med record: 1876
1st Med country: Egypt
Tornaritis G (1987) Mediterranean Sea Shells. Nicosia, Cyprus, published by the author.
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