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Table 3 Alien Species that became established in the 2017-2019 period

From: Mediterranean non indigenous species at the start of the 2020s: recent changes

Higher taxon

Species name

Original source

Additional sources

BRY

Hippopodina sp.

1966-IL: Powell 1969

1996-GR: Morri et al. 1999 / 2016-TR: Ulman et al. 2017

BRY

Watersipora arcuata Banta, 1969

2013-IT: Ferrario et al. 2015

2016-TR, ES, MT, IT: Ulman et al. 2017

CNI

Oulastrea crispata (Lamarck, 1816)

2012-FR: Hoeksema & Ocaña Vicente, 2014

2017-ES: Mariani et al. 2018

CRU

Bemlos leptocheirus (Walker, 1909)

1924-EG: Schellenberg 1928

2015-GR: Ulman et al. 2017

CRU

Charybdis feriata (Linnaeus, 1758)

2004-ES: Abelló and Hispano 2006

2015-IT: Tiralongo in Karachle et al. 2016/ 2017-ES: Colmenero et al. 2019

CRU

Cymothoa indica Schioedte & Meinert, 1884

2003-LB: Trilles and Bariche 2006

<2015-EG: Rania and Rehab 2015

CRU

Halimede ochtodes (Herbst, 1783)

2013-EG: Moussa et al. 2016

2013-EG: Akel in Lipej et al. 2017

CRU

Halimede tyche (Herbst, 1801)

1998-IL: Galil 2000

2016-LB: SPA/RAC–UN Environment/MAP 2017

CRU

Ianiropsis serricaudis Gurjanova, 1936

2012-IT: Marchini et al. 2016

2014-IT: Ferrario et al. 2017/2015-FR: Ulman et al. 2017

CRU

Oithona davisae Ferrari F.D. & Orsi, 1984

2000-ES: Saiz et al. 2003

2004-5-IT: Zagami et al. 2018 / 2015-TR: Terbıyık Kurt and Beşiktepe 2019 2018- GR: Anadoli & Michaloudi, in Dragicevic et al., 2019

CRU

Sicyonia lancifer (Olivier, 1811)

2015-TR: Gönülal et al. 2016

IL-Galil & Lubinevsky in Stern et al. 2019

FISH

Abudefduf vaigiensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825)

1957-IT: Tardent 1959

2013-MT: Vella et al. 2016 / 2018-LY: Osca et al. 2020

FISH

Ostracion cubicus Linnaeus, 1758

2011-LB: Bariche 2011

2017-TR: Gökoğlu & Korun in Gerovasileiou et al. 2017

FISH

Pomacanthus imperator (Bloch, 1787)

2009-IL: Golani et al. 2010

2017-SY: Capapé et al. 2018a; Saad et al. 2018 / 2019-TR: Gürlek et al. 2019 /2015-19-IL: Rothman & Stern in Stern et al. 2019

MOL

Baeolidia moebii Bergh, 1888

2007-TR: Turk and Furlan 2011

2017-CY: Paz-Sedano et al. 2019

MOL

Berthellina citrina (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1828)

1940-PA: O'Donoghue and White 1940

2005-TR: Yokes & Ünsal Karhan in Yokes et al., 2018

MOL

Cuthona perca (Er. Marcus, 1958)

1976-IT: Cesari 1994

2015-SI: Lipej & Trkov in Yokeş et al. 2018

MOL

Goniobranchus obsoletus (Rüppell & Leuckart, 1830)

2015-IL: Halevy et al. 2015

2018-CY: Kleitou et al. 2019

MOL

Isognomon legumen (Gmelin, 1791)

2015-IL: Mienis et al. 2016

2016-GR: Micali et al. 2017 / 2017-TR: Ovalis & Zenetos in Stamouli et al. 2017 /2017-IT: Scuderi and Viola 2019

MOL

Plocamopherus tilesii Bergh, 1877

2009-TR: Yokeş et al. 2012

TR: B. Yokeş pers commun

PHY

Chaetoceros bacteriastroides G.H.H.Karsten, 1907

2002-IT: Sarno and Zingone 2008

2010-HR: Čalić et al., 2017

PLAT

Neoallolepidapedon hawaiiense Yamaguti, 1965

2006-TN: Merella et al. 2007

LY: Salem 2017

  1. Taxonomic group abbreviations: PHY Phytoplankton, BRY Bryozoa, CNI Cnidaria, CRU Crustacea, FISH Fishes, MOL Mollusca, PLAT Platyelminthes. Country codes follow the internationally accepted two-letter codes for countries (https://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/ctycodes.htm)