TY - JOUR
T1 - First record of Thalamita oculea Alcock, 1899 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae) in the Mediterranean Sea
AU - Galil, Bella S.
AU - Tagar, Aviyam
AU - Zirler, Rotem
AU - Bronstein, Omri
AU - Feldstein-Farkash, Tamar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Galil et al.
PY - 2024/3
Y1 - 2024/3
N2 - A single adult specimen of Thalamita oculea, a portunid crab known from the Indian Ocean, was recently collected off the Israeli coast, in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Morphological characters, as well as molecular analyses based on the mitochondrial barcoding gene 16S ribosomal RNA, support the identification. The species is described, illustrated, and differentiated from its Mediterranean congeners. As the Israeli shelf serves as an important way station and breeding ground for invasive Erythraean biota, T. oculea may potentially spread along the Levant coastline.
AB - A single adult specimen of Thalamita oculea, a portunid crab known from the Indian Ocean, was recently collected off the Israeli coast, in the southeastern Mediterranean Sea. Morphological characters, as well as molecular analyses based on the mitochondrial barcoding gene 16S ribosomal RNA, support the identification. The species is described, illustrated, and differentiated from its Mediterranean congeners. As the Israeli shelf serves as an important way station and breeding ground for invasive Erythraean biota, T. oculea may potentially spread along the Levant coastline.
KW - Erythraean invasion
KW - Suez Canal
KW - alien species
KW - taxonomic validation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85192389162&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3391/bir.2024.13.1.09
DO - 10.3391/bir.2024.13.1.09
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AN - SCOPUS:85192389162
SN - 2242-1300
VL - 13
SP - 97
EP - 107
JO - BioInvasions Records
JF - BioInvasions Records
IS - 1
ER -