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
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