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Hydroides heterocera

(Grube, 1868)
Annelida » Sabellida » Serpulidae » Hydroides heterocera
Ηabitat
A: Marine

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Establishment status
Not Established
Establishment status detail

Alien: Casual

First detection year
1998
Online resource
http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851900
Pathway
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat ballast water – Ballast
4 TRANSPORT – STOWAWAY - Ship/boat hull fouling – Hull
5 CORRIDOR - Interconnected waterways – Water
6 UNAIDED - Natural dispersal across border of IAS that have been introduced through pathways 1-5 - Nat
Pathway detail

Transported in ballast water in larval stages; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal

Other notes

1st Med record: 1965

1st Med country: Lebanon

References

Ben Eliahu MN, Payiatas G (1999) Searching for lessepsian migrant serpulids (Annelida: Polychaeta) on Cyprus – some results of a recent expedition. Israel Journal of Zoology 45: 101-119.

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

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

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University of Cyprus - Department of Biological Sciences
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