Chama asperella

Lamarck, 1819

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Ηabitat

Global distribution

Greek Exclusive Economic Zone 9224 0; Indian Ocean 680 2; Indian Ocean 375 0; Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone 815 3; Israeli Exclusive Economic Zone 5851 0; Mediterranean Sea 1618 0; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 612 2; Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin 4484 0; Tanzania 529 1; Tanzania 22 0; Turkey 554 1; Turkey 331 0

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Establishment status

Not Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

Casual

First detection year

2009

Online resource

http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208488

Pathway

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast

4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull

Pathway detail

Transported in ballast water; attachment to ship hulls

Other notes

1st Med record: 1990

1st Med country: Turkey

References

Delongeville C, Scaillet R (2010) Echantillonnage de mollusques invasifs et première signalisation de Chama aspersa Reeve, 1846 à Chypre Nord. NOVAPEX / Société 11(1): 3-7.

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