First records of the warm water shipworm Teredo bartschi Clapp, 1923 (Bivalvia, teredinidae) in Mersin, southern Turkey and in Olhão, Portugal

Bivalves of the family Teredinidae are among the most destructive wood-boring species in the sea. We report the first occurrences of the warm-water shipworm Teredo bartschi in Mersin, Turkey, and Olhão, Portugal. The colonisation of the site in Mersin is likely to have occurred by rafting adults ori...

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Published in:BioInvasions Records
Main Author: Borges, L.M.S. and Sivrikaya, H. and Cragg, S.M.
Language:English
Published: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre 2014
Subjects:
Northeast Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11772/3758
https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2014.3.1.04
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Summary:Bivalves of the family Teredinidae are among the most destructive wood-boring species in the sea. We report the first occurrences of the warm-water shipworm Teredo bartschi in Mersin, Turkey, and Olhão, Portugal. The colonisation of the site in Mersin is likely to have occurred by rafting adults originating from the Red Sea, which passed through the Suez Canal (lessepsian migrants). T. bartschi might have been introduced in Olhão Harbour, Portugal, either by rafting adults with larvae transported by currents or by larvae transported by ships in ballast water. These seem to be the first published records of established T. bartschi populations in the Mediterranean and in northeast Atlantic. © 2014 The Author(s). Journal compilation and 2014 REABIC.

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