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Fulvia fragilis

(Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Mollusca » Cardiida » Cardiidae » Fulvia fragilis
Ηabitat
A: Marine
Global distribution

Bizerte Lagoon 73751 0; East Coast of Spain 17515 0; Egypt 201 1; Egypt 1732 0; Ghar El Melh lagoon 179244 0; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 816 3; Italian Exclusive Economic Zone 9237 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; Tunis Lagoon 73704 0; Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone 927 3; Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone 65681 0; Tyrrhenian Sea 689 2; Tyrrhenian Sea 19902 0

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Establishment status
Established
Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year
1983
Online resource
http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605733
Pathway
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull
6 UNAIDED - Natural dispersal across border of IAS that have been introduced through pathways 1-5 - Nat
Pathway detail

Transported in ballast water in microscopic stage of life history or as fragments; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal

Other notes

1st Med record: 1938

1st Med country: Egypt 

References

Fischer W (1993) Beitraege zur Kenntnis der rezenten und fossilen marinen Molluskenfauna Zyperns (II). Die Mollusken des Kap Drepanum (Peyia, Paphos). Club Conchylia Information 15(2): 147-152.

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

"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"
Joint Service Health Unit
University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
Darwin Initiative
Akrotiri Environment

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