Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-11T09:45:57.388Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

New records of upper shore Mollusca for the Tunisian coast: newcomers or overlooked?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2009

Mouna Antit ,
Serge Gofas  and
Atf Azzouna
Mouna Antit
Affiliation:
Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tunis El Manar, 43 rue de la Liberté, 2019 Tunis, Tunisia
Serge Gofas*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciencias-E-29071, Málaga, Spain
Atf Azzouna
Affiliation:
Département de Biologie, Faculté des Sciences, Université de Tunis El Manar, 43 rue de la Liberté, 2019 Tunis, Tunisia
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Serge Gofas, Departemento de Biología Animal, Facultad de Ciences-E-29071, Málaga, Spain email: sgofas@uma.es
Get access

Abstract

Living populations of the meso- and supralittoral molluscs Siphonaria pectinata and Echinolittorina punctata are recorded for the Tunisian shores. Siphonaria is most likely to be newly established on this coast, being easily detected and scored as absent in the same sites during previous surveys. The case is unclear for Echinolittorina, for which we do not know any positive published records prior to 1970 but which may have been confused with Melarhaphe neritoides. Both species are of tropical West African affinities and are potentially excellent markers of faunal change in the Mediterranean Sea.

Keywords

Mediterraneanfaunal changetropicalizationgastropodaLittorinidaeSiphonariidae
Type
Research Article
Information
Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e99
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2007

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Aradas, A. and Benoit, L. (1872–1876) Conchigliologia vivente marina della Sicilia. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali, (3)6: 1–113+ pl. 1–2 [1872]; 113–226 + pl. 3–4 [1874]; 227–324 + pl. 5 [1876].Google Scholar
Beu, A.G. (1998) Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 178, 1–255.Google Scholar
Boyer, F. and Simbille, C. (2006) About the settling of Erosaria turdus (Lamarck, 1810) in Mediterranean. Bollettino Malacologico 41, 9–12.Google Scholar
Cachia, C., Mifsud, C. and Sammut, P.M. (1996) The marine mollusca of the Maltese Islands. Part 2: Neotaenioglossa. Leiden: Backhuys.Google Scholar
Ghisotti, F. (1972) Le conchiglie del Golfo di Gabes. Conchiglie 8, 63–89, 101–113, 133–144.Google Scholar
Gofas, S. and Zenetos, A. (2003) Exotic molluscs in the Mediterranean basin: current status and perspectives. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review 41, 237–277.Google Scholar
Hidalgo, J.G. (1917) Fauna malacológica de España, Portugal y Baleares. Moluscos testáceos marinos. Trabajos del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid. Serie Zoológica 30, 1–752.Google Scholar
MEDATLAS (1997) Mediterranean hydrological atlas on CD-ROM. IFREMER (Ed.), published by IFREMER/DITI/IDT on behalf of the MEDATLAS consortium under contract MAS2-CT93-0074.Google Scholar
Monterosato, T.A. di (1877) Note sur quelques coquilles provenant des côtes d'Algérie. (Trad. di H. Crosse). Journal de Conchyliologie 25, 24–49, pl. 2, 3.Google Scholar
Monterosato, T.A. di (1878) Enumerazione e sinonimia delle Conchiglie mediterranee. Giornale di Scienze Naturali ed Economiche di Palermo 13, 61–115.Google Scholar
Morrison, J.P.E. (1972) Mediterranean Siphonaria: west and east—old and new. Argamon 3, 51–62.Google Scholar
Nicolay, K. (1980) Siphonaria pectinata L., 1758 (Pulmonata, Siphonariidae). Prima segnalazione per le acque della Grecia. La Conchiglia 130–131: 11.Google Scholar
Pallary, P. (1900) Coquilles marines du littoral du Département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie 48, 211–422, pl. 6–8.Google Scholar
Pallary, P. (1904–1906) Addition à la faune malacologique du Golfe de Gabès. Journal de Conchyliologie 52, 212–248, pl. 7; 54, 77–124, pl. 4.Google Scholar
Pallary, P. (1912) Catalogue des mollusques du littoral méditerranéen de l'Egypte. Mémoires de l'Institut d'Egypte 7, 69–207, pl. 15–18.Google Scholar
Pallary, P. (1914) Liste des Mollusques du Golfe de Tunis. Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de l'Afrique du Nord 6, 12–27.Google Scholar
Parenzan, P. (1970) Carta d'identità delle conchiglie del Mediterraneo. Vol. 1 (Gasteropodi). Taranto: Bios Taras.Google Scholar
Philippi, R.A. (1836–1844) Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1: p. i–xiv, 1–267. Berolini [Berlin]: Schropp. Vol. 2: p. 1–303. Halis Saxonum [Halle]: Eduard Anton.Google Scholar
Philippi, R.A. (1845–1847) Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe mehrerer deutscher Conchyliologen. Vol. 2: 1–64[1845]; 65–152 [1846]; 153–232 [1847]. Cassel: T. Fischer.Google Scholar
Priolo, O. (1953) Nuova revisione delle conchiglie marine di Sicilia [5th article]. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (6)8, 164–190.Google Scholar
Soppelsa, O., Crocetta, F. and Fasulo, G. (2004) Prime segnalazioni di Nodilittorina punctata (Gmelin, 1791) per il Golfo di Salerno, il Golfo di Napoli ed i littorali laziali. Bollettino della Società dei Naturalisti, Napoli, n.s. 2, 41–44.Google Scholar
Vassel, E. (1897) Sur la Pintadine du Golfe de Gabès. In Association Française pour l'Avancement des Sciences. Compte-rendu de la 25e session, Carthage (à Tunis), 1896. Vol. 2, pp. 458–466. Paris: Masson.Google Scholar
Weinkauff, H.C. (1867–1868) Die Conchylien des Mittelmeeres, ihre geographische und geologisches Verbreitung. Cassel: T. Fischer.Google Scholar
Williams, S.T. and Reid, D.G. (2004) Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina. Evolution 58, 2227–2251.Google Scholar
Zenetos, A., Gofas, S., Russo, G. and Templado, J. (2004) CIESM Atlas of exotic species in the Mediterranean. Vol. 3. Molluscs (ed. Briand, F.). Monaco: CIESM.Google Scholar