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

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 stagess; attachment to ship hulls; Suez Canal

Other notes

1st Med record: 1973

1st Med country: Israel

References

Verlaque M, Boudouresque CF (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. 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