The alien alga Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman and Procaccini move their northern and western limits.

Di Martino, Vincenzo and Stancanelli, Bessy and Cantasano, Nicola (2018) The alien alga Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman and Procaccini move their northern and western limits. J. Black Sea/Mediterranean Environment, 24 (2). pp. 140-148.

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Abstract

Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman and Procacini is a green invasive alga recently reported in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time in 2007. The first record was in Turkey in 2007 and later it has been reported in Sicily (Italy, in 2009), Cyprus (in 2013), Malta (in 2015), Rhodes (in 2016) and Lybia (2017). In the current study we present additional records of this species which expanding its range into the Eastern and Western Mediterranean Sea (Eastern and Western Sicilian shoreline, Calabrian Tyrrhenian coast, Sardinia and Tunisia) as well as in the eastern Mediterranean basin. Our specimens were collected on various substrates and were identified trough morphological methods.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 580 Piante (Botanica) (Classificare qui la Storia naturale e la Biologia descrittiva delle piante)
500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 590 Animali (Zoologia) (Classificare qui la Storia naturale e la Biologia descrittiva degli animali, le opere interdisciplinari sugli animali)
Depositing User: Dr Nicola Cantasano
Date Deposited: 23 Jul 2018 07:22
Last Modified: 23 Jul 2018 07:22
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/18106

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