Species Regional Summary
Ciona robusta
None ( MED-V )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: probably Egypt/Mediterranean Sea (Savigny 1816, as Phallusia intestinalis, cited by Hoshino and Nishikawa 1985)

Geographic Extent

Israel/Mediterranean Sea (Dybern 1965); Egypt/Lake Timsah, Suez Canal (Caputi et al. 2007, molecular ID); Turkey/Levantine Sea (2016, Cinar et al. 2021)

Vectors

Level Vector

Regional Impacts

References

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