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Further spreading in the Italian seas of already established non-indigenous mollusc species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2014

Gianluca Stasolla ,
Francesca Riolo ,
Armando Macali ,
Cataldo Pierri  and
Fabio Crocetta
Gianluca Stasolla
Affiliation:
Museo di Storia Naturale, Sezione di Zoologia ‘La Specola’, Università di Firenze, via Romana 17, I-50125, Firenze, Italy
Francesca Riolo
Affiliation:
Mappamondo GIS srl, Via Rubens 3, I-43123, Parma, Italy
Armando Macali
Affiliation:
Centro Ittiogenico Sperimentale Marino, Borgo Le Saline, I-01016, Tarquinia, Italy
Cataldo Pierri
Affiliation:
LifeWatch Italian Network, Mediterranean Thematic Center, LifeWatch Services Center, Via le San Nicola, I-73100, Lecce, Italy
Fabio Crocetta*
Affiliation:
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Water Resources Unit, Via Enrico Fermi, 2749, I-21027, Ispra, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: F. Crocetta, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Water Resources Unit, Via Enrico Fermi, 2749, I-21027, Ispra, Italy email: fabio.crocetta@jrc.ec.europa.eu
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Abstract

We hereby provide new distributional data for alien and possible alien molluscs from the Italian seas, together with a brief review of their known Italian distribution and updated distributional maps. In particular, Haminoea cyanomarginata is confirmed for the Calabrian shores of the Strait of Messina area and is first reported from eastern and western Sicily, therefore suggesting a natural spreading into the Italian central Mediterranean Sea. Melibe viridis is confirmed for the Ionian Calabrian shores and Sardinia, where it was previously known from isolated records only. Pinctada imbricata radiata is first reported as naturally widening its distribution in Sardinia and in the Gulf of Taranto, where new populations are soon awaited, whilst Aplysia dactylomela is now expanding its range along the Italian Adriatic shores. And last, recent records of Anadara transversa from the Sabaudia Lake testify the role of lagoon systems as hot-spots for the introduction and secondary spreading of alien species, and indicate mussel aquaculture as the likely vector of introduction for its occurrence.

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Mediterranean SeaItalybiological invasionsalien speciesMollusca
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 7 , 2014 , e120
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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