A5029684642- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- International Maritime Law Issues
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Marine and environmental studies
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Parasitic Infections and Diagnostics
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
Tel Aviv University
2013-2023
The publication of this article is supported by the Open Access Publishing Fund International Association for Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species (INVASIVESNET; www.invasivesnet.org). Stelios Katsanevakis, Maria Sini and Konstantinos Tsirintanis were Hellenic Foundation Research Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under “First Call H.F.R.I. Projects to support Faculty members Researchers procurement high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: HFRI-FM17-1597). Enalia Physis acknowledges Pantelis...
Major invasions of Indo-Pacific lionfish ( Pterois volitans and P. miles ) are underway in the Western Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea. While establishment is perhaps most well-studied marine fish invasion to date, rapidly expanding more recent has received less attention. Here we review synthesize successes failures from two decades management give policy recommendations for their Mediterranean. Two failed approaches that were attempted multiple times advise against (1) feeding native...
Abstract Lionfishes (Pterois spp.), originally native to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, have become one of most invasive marine species globally, including recent establishment in Mediterranean Sea. This study investigates microbiota lionfish explore its potential role their invasion success establishment. Using high-throughput sequencing analyses, we characterized species-specific core microbiome identified habitat-specific markers across different regions (Red Caribbean, aquarium...
Abstract We report the first non-indigenous dottyback Pseudochromis persicus record in Mediterranean Sea. A single individual was documented several times at same location on October 2024 Bat Galim reef, a shallow rocky shelf of Rosh Carmel underwater ridge northern coast Israel. This represents sighting Pseudochromidae, family native to Indo-Pacific Ocean, It is also P. beyond its range Persian Gulf and Arabian
Lionfishes ( Pterois spp.), originally native to the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, have become one of most invasive marine species globally, including recent establishment in Mediterranean Sea. This study investigates microbiota lionfish explore its potential role their invasion success establishment. Using high-throughput sequencing analyses, we characterized species-specific core microbiome identified habitat-specific markers across different regions (Red Caribbean, aquarium populations)...
Although the ecological importance and impact of non-indigenous species is increasingly recognised documented in shallow water ecosystems, their presence beyond shelf has scarcely been documented. A survey upper slope biota Mediterranean coast Israel revealed at 200-m depth individuals three Erythraean species, crocodile toothfish Champsodon nudivittis, Golani's round herring Etrumeus golanii, burrowing goby, Trypauchen vagina. In past decade several some newly arrived, well-established,...
Sea turtles were targeted by fisheries in the Mediterranean from 1920 to 1970 and have undergone severe exploitation. At least 30,000 40,000 caught along Palestinian coastline during 1920s 1930s. Although intentional cap- ture of marine is now illegal, sea are still incidentally fishing industry, making it a major cause turtle mortality. The present study as- sesses impact Israeli fishery fleet on population Levantine basin based on-board observations fishermen survey. results show that...
The recent invasion of the lionfish Pterois miles to Mediterranean draws major concerns fate indigenous ecosystem, based on previous knowledge species' detrimental capabilities as an introduced species in Western Atlantic Ocean. In order determine invasive patterns Eastern Mediterranean, we compared genetic divergence two mtDNA markers, COI and D-loop, between within Levantine native range Red Sea populations lionfish. region presented a remarkably shallow genealogy, both genes have failed...
This is the second collective paper issued in 2019, currently amalgamates new knowledge on Mediterranean geographic distributions of 17 species from five phyla (six aliens, three cosmopolitans, two east Atlantic records and six natives). The acknowledged were reported ten countries, mentioned here west to east: Spain: first report grouper Cephalopholis taeniops western an inclusion Pontarachna puntulum Litarachna communis pontarachnid fauna Spain; Morocco: record Solea senegalensis Moroccan...
A gonadotropic microsporidian parasite, Obruspora papernae gen. et sp. nov. (Microsporidia: Enterocytozoonidae), is described from Callionymus filamentosus (Teleostei: Callionymidae) in the Mediterranean Sea. The host, a Red Sea invasive species which entered through Suez Canal, was first collected Levant Basin 1953, whereas its parasite went unobserved until 2008. Analysis of partial small subunit ribosomal gene sequences (SSU rDNA) placed new within Nucleospora, Desmozoon, and...
After the description of Gobius incognitus Kovačić & Šanda, 2016, all previous knowledge about geographic distribution bucchichi Steindachner, 1870, as well its ecology and biology, became obsolete, since it represented data from mixture two species. The known G. is revisited by validating previously published records, but also foremost integrating many new photographic records posted anglers divers on social media citizen science databases. present research uses only positively...
The number of alien species in the Mediterranean Sea is steadily increasing and it seems that pace has been accelerating since turn century (Galil et al. 2014). In 2015 alone five additional fish have reported, Epinephelus geoffroyi (Klunzinger, 1870) (Golani 2015); Stolephorus indicus (van Hasselt, 1823) (Fricke Sardinella gibbosa (Bleeker, 1849) (Stern Mobula japanica (Müller & Henle, 1841) (Capapé Cryptocentrus caeruleopunctatus (Rüppell, 1830) (Rothman Goren 2015). Among ca. 100 reported...
New records of the rapid spread and establishment Erythraean alien apogonid Cheilodipterus novemstriatus along Israeli coast are presented. In October 2012, a school numbering hundreds adult specimens was photographed off Rosh HaNikra – finding that confirms presence an established population species Levantine Mediterranean Sea.
Four species of the gobiid genus Pleurosicya are reported from Red Sea: P. bilobata, mossambica, plicata, and prognatha. bilobata is as a new record for Sea based on underwater photographs taken seagrass area at Dahab, Egypt, Gulf Aqaba. A previous micheli, occurring Indonesia to French Polynesia, misidentification mossambica can be excluded species. Phylogenetic COI barcode analysis showed that genetic distance between population Western Indian Ocean specimens low, confirming synonymy...