Global diversity of Ascidiacea

N Shenkar, BJ Swalla - Plos one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The class Ascidiacea presents fundamental opportunities for research in the fields of
development, evolution, ecology, natural products and more. This review provides a …

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas

A Ulman, J Ferrario, A Occhpinti-Ambrogi, C Arvanitidis… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
The Mediterranean Sea is home to over 2/3 of the world's charter boat traffic and hosts an
estimated 1.5 million recreational boats. Studies elsewhere have demonstrated marinas as …

[PDF][PDF] New records of alien species on the Levantine coast of Turkey

ME Çinar, M Bilecenoglu, B Öztürk, A Can - Aquatic invasions, 2006 - academia.edu
Zoobenthic investigations carried out along the Turkish Levantine coast resulted in
identification of nine previously unrecorded alien species: Macrorhynchia philippina …

[PDF][PDF] Deep cleaning of alien and cryptogenic species records in the Greek Seas (2018 update)

A Zenetos, M Corsini-Foka, F Crocetta… - Management of …, 2018 - researchgate.net
This work presents a current (2018) annotated list of marine NIS and cryptogenic species in
Greek marine waters. For this purpose, we updated information from previous lists, included …

The Miseno Lake (central-western Mediterranean Sea): an overlooked reservoir of non-indigenous and cryptogenic ascidians in a marine reserve

R Virgili, V Tanduo, S Katsanevakis… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Ascidians are the largest and most diverse class of the subphylum Tunicata, and are
important components of marine benthic communities. They are also renowned worldwide …

Characterising invasion processes with genetic data: an Atlantic clade of Clavelina lepadiformis (Ascidiacea) introduced into Mediterranean harbours

X Turon, I Tarjuelo, S Duran, M Pascual - … of the 37 th European Marine …, 2003 - Springer
We studied the genetic structure of populations of the Atlanto-Mediterranean ascidian
Clavelina lepadiformis (Müller, 1776). A 369 bp segment of the COI mitochondrial gene was …

Cryptic species of Clavelina (Ascidiacea) in two different habitats: harbours and rocky littoral zones in the northwestern Mediterranean

I Tarjuelo, D Posada, K Crandall, M Pascual, X Turon - Marine Biology, 2001 - Springer
Marinas and harbours provide ideal sites for the study of population genetics of marine
invertebrates with restricted dispersal capabilities. They combine a confinement effect …

Biodiversity of marine sessile epifauna at an Aegean island subject to hydrothermal activity: Milos, eastern Mediterranean Sea

C Morri, CN Bianchi, S Cocito, A Peirano, AMD Biase… - Marine biology, 1999 - Springer
Sessile macroepifauna was sampled at six rocky sites between 2 and 90 m depth with a
number of different methods involving both underwater photography and collection of …

New mediterranean biodiversity records (December 2012)

M Thessalou-Legaki, Ö Aydogan, P Bekas, G Bilge… - 2012 - rua.ua.es
This paper presents records extending or confirming the distribution of Mediterranean
species. Three alien algae are included, namely Codium taylorii reported for the first time …

A review on the biodiversity of hard substrate invertebrate communities in the Aegean Sea

C Chintiroglou, C Antoniadou… - Mediterranean …, 2005 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
This review attempts to estimate the biodiversity of the macrobenthic communities that
develop on hard bottoms in the Aegean Sea. Literature analysis revealed that 1,171 species …