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