National report of Italy.

• Main Author: OCCHIPINTI, ANNA CARMEN
• Other Authors: Occhipinti, ANNA CARMEN
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: marine alien species introductions and transfer; Mediterranean Sea; Italy; Charybdis; Paralithodes camtschaticus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11571/278306; http://www.ices.dk/reports/ACOM/2010/WGITMO/WGITMO%202010.pdf

Fourteen new sightings are described. Two species of algae (Palisada maris-rubri and Ascophyllum nodosum), two gelatinous macroplankters (Mnemiopsis leidyi and Phyllorhiza punctata), two polychaetes (Ophryotroca diadema and Harmothoë vesiculosa) one crustacean (Charybdis (Charybdis) lucifera), one bryozoan (Caten-icella paradoxa) and one fish (Kyphosus incisor) were recorded for the first time in Italy. Moreover, a single large individual of the king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus was found in the Ionian Sea. The freshwater alien crab Procambarus clarki and the Tilapia Oreochromis niloticus niloticus were found for the first time in a marine coastal lake. Two Atlantic fishes expanding their range were found in Italy (Cepha-lopholis taeniops and Lutjanus jocu).