The non-indigenous Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909 in the Mediterranean Sea: travelling with shellfish? (EN)

TORELLI, F.

LODOLA, A.

SORBE, J. C.

MARCHINI, A.

OCCHIPINTI-AMBROGI, A.

An anthurid isopod new to the Mediterranean Sea has recently been observed in samples from three localities of the Italian coast: the Lagoon of Venice (North Adriatic Sea), La Spezia (Ligurian Sea) and Olbia (Sardinia, Tyrrhenian Sea). The specimens collected showed strong affinity to a species originally described from the NW Pacific Ocean: Paranthura japonica Richardson, 1909. The comparison with specimens collected from the Bay of Arcachon (Atlantic coast of France), where P. japonica had been recently reported as non-indigenous, confirmed the identity of the species. This paper reports the most relevant morphological details of the Italian specimens, data on the current distribution of the species and a discussion on the pathways responsible for its introduction. The available data suggest that the presence of this Pacific isopod in several regions of coastal Europe might be due to a series of aquaculture-mediated introduction events that occurred during the last decades of the 1900s. Since then, established populations of P. japonica, probably misidentified, remained unnoticed for a long time. (EN)

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isopod (EN)

Italy (EN)

Mediterranean Sea (EN)

Paranthura japonica (EN)

non-indigenous species (EN)

aquaculture. (EN)

Ελληνικό Κέντρο Θαλασσίων Ερευνών (ΕΛΚΕΘΕ)

Mediterranean Marine Science

Research Article

Mediterranean Marine Science

Αγγλική γλώσσα

2014-05-08

https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/hcmr-med-mar-sc/article/view/12685

Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (EN)

1791-6763

1108-393X

Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol 15, No 3 (2014); 545-553 (EL)

Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol 15, No 3 (2014); 545-553 (EN)