The long reach of the Suez Canal: Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) an unwanted Indo-Pacific pest at the Atlantic gate

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2020 Italy Publisher:Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy (REABIC)Journal:BioInvasions Records, volume 9, pages 204-208 (eissn: 2242-1300,

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Authors: Azzurro E; Bariche M; Cerri J; Garrabou J;

doi: 10.3391/bir.2020.9.2.05

handle: 10261/216490 , 20.500.14243/422062

The long reach of the Suez Canal: Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) an unwanted Indo-Pacific pest at the Atlantic gate

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The silver-cheeked toadfish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) is rapidly expanding westward through the Mediterranean Sea. On December 2017, a single individual was caught by a local fisherman at the westernmost end of the basin, the Straits of Gibraltar at San Amaro beach, Bahia norte, Ceuta, Spain (35.8974; −5.2994). This new record opens to the possibility of this Indo-Pacific pest to spread beyond the Mediterranean region, prospecting the future extension of Lessepsian bioinvasions to the Atlantic Ocean

This study has been partially supported by the Interreg Med Programme (Project MPA-Adapt - Grant number 1197 | 1MED15_3.2_M2_337 and Project MPA-ENGAGE -grant number: 5216 | 5MED18_3.2_M23_007)

With the funding support of the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000928-S), of the Spanish Research Agency (AEI)

5 pages, 2 figures

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Geographical spread, Invasive species, Lessepsian migration, Mediterranean Sea, Biological invasions, Atlantic Ocean

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