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Aplysia Dactylomela Ordine Anaspidea Rang, 1828 Famiglia Aplysiidae Identificazione e distribuzione nei mari italiani di specie non indigene Classe Gastropoda Aplysia dactylomela Ordine Anaspidea Rang, 1828 Famiglia Aplysiidae SINONIMI RILEVANTI Nessuno. DESCRIZIONE COROLOGIA / AFFINITA’ Senza dati. Animale di grandi dimensioni, presenta anelli di forma irregolare distribuiti su tutto il corpo. Parapodi molto sviluppati. DISTRIBUZIONE ATTUALE Circumtropicale, Mediterraneo: Italia, Grecia, Cipro, Turchia, Israele COLORAZIONE Il colore base è verde con gli anelli di colore scuro. PRIMA SEGNALAZIONE IN MEDITERRANEO 2002, Lampedusa (IT) (Trainito, 2005). FORMULA MERISTICA - PRIMA SEGNALAZIONE IN ITALIA TAGLIA MASSIMA 2002, Lampedusa (IT) (Trainito, 2005). - ORIGINE STADI LARVALI Indo-Pacifico. - SPECIE SIMILI VIE DI DISPERSIONE PRIMARIE Traffici marittimi. - CARATTERI DISTINTIVI VIE DI DISPERSIONE SECONDARIE - - STATO DELL ’INVASIONE Insediato. Identificazione e distribuzione nei mari italiani di specie non indigene HABITAT MOTIVI DEL SUCCESSO Sconosciuti. Gli individui trovati a Lampedusa sono stati rinvenuti ad una profondità di 4 metri su un SPECIE IN COMPETIZIONE substrato misto di Posidonia oceanica e Caulerpa racemosa . - Nel mese di ottobre 2002 un esemplare di A. IMPATTI dactylomela è stato rinvenuto in una pozza di scogliera ad Acitrezza (Sicilia orientale) (Scuderi - et al., 2004). DANNI ECOLOGICI - PARTICOLARI CONDIZIONI AMBIENTALI Sconosciute. DANNI ECONOMICI - BIOLOGIA Sconosciuta. IMPORTANZA PER L ’UOMO Sconosciuta BANCA DEI CAMPIONI - PRESENZA IN G -BANK - PROVENIENZA DEL CAMPIONE TIPOLOGIA : (MUSCOLO / ESEMPLARE INTERO / CONGELATO / FISSATO ECC ) LUOGO DI CONSERVAZIONE CODICE CAMPIONE Identificazione e distribuzione nei mari italiani di specie non indigene BIBLIOGRAFIA Cinar M.E., Bilecenoglu M., Ozturk B., Can A., 2006 - New records of alien species on the Levantine coast of Turkey. Aquatic Invasion, 1(2): 84-90. Eales N.B., 1957 - Revision of the species of Aplysia of the Museum National d'histoire naturelle (Malacologie), Paris. Bull. du Museum " serie, t. XXIX n. 3: 246-255 Pasternak, G. and Galil. B.S. (2010) Occurrence of the alien sea hare Aplysia dactylomela Rang, 1828 (Opisthobranchia, Aplysiidae) in Israel. Aquatic Invasions 5, 437-440. Rang, S., 1828 - Histoire naturelle des Aplysiens, prèmiere famille de l'ordre des Tectibranches. 84pp., Plates 1-24. In: Férussac, D., Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des Mollusques. Firmin Didot: Paris Rudman, W.B., 2004. Comment on Aplysia parvula from Fethiye Bay, Turkey by Ant Turkmen. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/ Rudman, W.B., 2005. Comment on Another record of Aplysia dactylomela from Greece by Allan David. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find.cfm?id=14517 Scuderi D. & Russo, G.F., 2004. Prima segnalazione di Aplysia dactylomela Rang, 1828 e probabile presenza di Syphonota geographica (Adams e Reeve, 1850) (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Anaspidea) per le acque del Mediterraneo. 35° Congresso SIBM – Genova, 19-29 luglio 2004. Trainito E., 2005 - Nudibranchi del Mediterraneo. Guida ai molluschi opistobranchi. Ed. Il Castello, Mi. 96pp Yokes, M.B., 2005. Aplysia dactylomela in the Eastern Mediterranean. [Message in] Sea Slug Forum. Australian Museum, Sydney. Available from http://www.seaslugforum.net/find.cfm?id=14305 Yokes, M.B., 2006. Aplysia dactylomela: an alien opisthobranch in the Mediterranean. JMBA2 – Biodiversity Records .
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