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- Title
Rarity in the native range of the Lessepsian migrant Plocamopherus ocellatus (Nudibranchia): fact or artifact?
- Authors
Hoeksema, Bert W.; Yonow, Nathalie
- Abstract
Mediterranean Sea, citizen scientists, Red Sea, sea slug, Suez Canal Among approximately 750 Lessepsian migrants (Galil et al. 2017), there are 30 heterobranchs that constitute ˜6% of the total Mediterranean sea slug fauna (Crocetta et al. 2013). This minute species has only seven records from its native range (Red Sea, Gulf of Eilat, Gulf of Oman) since its description in 1980 and at least 20 locality records from around the Mediterranean since 2005 (Fernández-Vilert et al. 2018, Rizgalla et al. 2018). Keywords: citizen scientists; Mediterranean Sea; Red Sea; sea slug; Suez Canal EN citizen scientists Mediterranean Sea Red Sea sea slug Suez Canal 1 3 3 11/02/21 20211101 NES 211101 The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 enabled a large number of Indo-Pacific marine species to expand their ranges into the Mediterranean Sea (Galil et al. 2017), entering the Gulf of Suez from the Red Sea and migrating northward toward the easternmost basin of the Mediterranean.
- Subjects
NUDIBRANCHIA; INTRODUCED species; GASTROPODA
- Publication
Ecology, 2021, Vol 102, Issue 11, p1
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecy.3481