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Fulvia fragilis

(Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Mollusca » Cardiida » Cardiidae » Fulvia fragilis
Ηabitat
A: Marine
Global distribution

Bizerte Lagoon 73751 0; East Coast of Spain 17515 0; Egypt 201 1; Egypt 1732 0; Ghar El Melh lagoon 179244 0; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 816 3; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 9237 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; Tunis Lagoon 73704 0; Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone 927 3; Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone 65681 0; Tyrrhenian Sea 689 2; Tyrrhenian Sea 19902 0

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Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
1983
Online resource
http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605733
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 microscopic stage of life history or as fragments; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal

Other notes

1st Med record: 1938

1st Med country: Egypt 

References

Fischer W (1993) Beitraege zur Kenntnis der rezenten und fossilen marinen Molluskenfauna Zyperns (II). Die Mollusken des Kap Drepanum (Peyia, Paphos). Club Conchylia Information 15(2): 147-152.

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

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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University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
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