Conomurex persicus
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Alien:
Invasive
Transported in ballast water in microscopic stage of life history or as fragments; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal
1st Med record: 1978
1st Med country: Turkey
Bazzocchi P (1985) Prima segnalazione di Strombus (Conomurex) decorus raybaudii Nicolay & Romagna-Manoja, 1983 per l’Isola di Cipro. Bolletino Malacologico 21: 64.
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
Fischer W, Poklękowski M, Zeimbekis C (2023) New localities of Conomurex persicus (Swainson, 1821) (Gastropoda: Strombidae) from Tunisia, Corfu, Naxos and other Aegean islands (Greece), and a brief overview of its distribution in the Mediterranean Sea. Arianta 10: 46-51.
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