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Rhodopsis pusilla

Bush, 1905
Annelida » Sabellida » Serpulidae » Rhodopsis pusilla
Ηabitat
A: Marine

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Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
1969
Online resource
https://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=131037
Pathway
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull
5 CORRIDOR - Interconnected waterways – Water
Pathway detail

Transported in ballast water; attachment to ship hulls

Other notes

might represent a Lessepsian immigrant.

References

Ben-Eliahu MN,ten Hove HA (1989) Redescription of Rhodopsis pusilla Bush, a little known but widely distributed species of Serpulidae (Polychaeta). Zoologica Scripta 18: 381–395.

Rousou M, Langeneck J, Apserou C, Arvanitidis C, Charalambous S, Chrysanthou K, Constantinides G, Dimitriou PD, García Gómez SC, Hadjieftychiou SI, Katsiaras N, Kleitou P, Kletou D, Küpper FC, Louizidou P, Martins R, Moraitis ML, Papageorgiou N, Papatheodoulou M, Petrou A, Xevgenos D, Vasiliades L, Voultsiadou E, Chintiroglou CC, Castelli A (2023) Polychaetes (Annelida) of Cyprus (Eastern Mediterranean Sea): An Updated and Annotated Checklist including New Distribution Records. Diversity 15(8): 941. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15080941

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