Stypopodium schimperi

(Kützing) M.Verlaque & Boudouresque, 1991

Ηabitat

A: Marine

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Establishment status

Established

Establishment status detail

Alien:

First detection year

1990

Pathway

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

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

5 CORRIDOR - Interconnected waterways – Water

Pathway detail

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

Other notes

1st Med record: 1973

1st Med country: Israel

References

Verlaque, M. & Boudouresque, C.F., 1991. Stypopodium schimperi (Buchinger ex Kützing) Verlaque et Boudouresque comb. nov. (Dictyotales, Fucophyceae), algue de mer Rouge récemment apparue en Méditerranée. Cryptogamie Algologie, 12: 195-211.

Katsanevakis S, Tsiamis K, Ioannou G, Michailidis N, Zenetos A, 2009. Inventory of alien marine species of Cyprus (2009). Mediterranean Marine Science 10:109-133.