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- Title
Alien facelinid nudibranchs in the Eastern Mediterranean: first report of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) and report of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) 30 years after its previous sighting.
- Authors
Rothman, Shevy B-S.; Mienis, Henk K.; Galil, Bella S.
- Abstract
Two conspicuously-colored facelinid nudibranchs, wide spread in the Indo-West Pacific Ocean, were recently sighted off the Israeli Mediterranean coastline. We report the occurrence of Phidiana militaris (Alder and Hancock, 1864) off a sunken submarine in Haifa Bay - the first record of the species in the Mediterranean Sea. A recent sighting of Caloria indica (Bergh, 1896) off northern Israel, previously known from two individuals recorded in the late 1980s, may indicate a separate introduction or the spread of a cryptic, local, self-propagating population.
- Subjects
SUEZ Canal (Egypt); RED Sea; NUDIBRANCHIA; SUBMARINES (Ships); INTRODUCED species
- Publication
BioInvasions Record, 2017, Vol 6, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
2242-1300
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3391/bir.2017.6.2.06