Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Port Said/Egypt/Mediterranean Sea (1924, Fox 1927, cited by Carlton and Iverson 1981)

Geographic Extent

Port Said/Egypt/Mediterranean Sea (1924, Fox 1927, cited by Carlton and Iverson 1981); Egypt/Lake Timsah, Suez Canal (1924, Fox 1927, cited by Carlton and Iverson 1981)); Pharo (Alexandria)/Egypt/Mediterranean Sea (1933, on ship's hull, Larwood 1940, cited by Carlton and Iverson 1981; on fouling plates, Ramadan et al. 2006); Egypt/Suez Canal (1971, USNM 138251, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); Haifa/Israel/Mediterranean Sea (Glynn 1972, cited by Galil 2008); Haifa/Israel/Mediterranean Sea (2008, Galil 2008, on fouled hull of research ship); Nikolaos, Crete/Greece/Mediterranean Sea (2015, Martínez-Laiz et al. 2019. on boats); Fethiye/Turkey/Mediterranean Sea 2015, Martínez-Laiz et al. 2019. on boats)