Volume 8, Issue 1

Published in March 2019


Contents

Research articles

 

Quentin Mauvisseau, John Davy-Bowker, David Bryson, Graham R. Souch, Alfred Burian and Michael Sweet
First detection of a highly invasive freshwater amphipod Crangonyx floridanus (Bousfield, 1963) in the United Kingdom (pp 1-7)

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Adriana Bellati, Lara Bassu, Valeria Nulchis and Claudia Corti
Detection of alien Pelophylax species in Sardinia (western Mediterranean, Italy) (pp 8-25)

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Roberta Bisconti, Giuseppe Martino, Andrea Chiocchio, Antonino Siclari and Daniele Canestrelli
Balkan marsh frogs Pelophylax kurtmuelleri (Gayda, 1940) introduced in the Aspromonte National Park, southern Italy (pp 26-33)

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Jocelyn E. Behm, Gerard van Buurt, Brianna M. DiMarco, Jacintha Ellers, Christian G. Irian, Kelley E. Langhans, Kathleen McGrath, Tyler J. Tran and Matthew R. Helmus
First records of the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris Duméril and Bibron, 1836), common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus in Duméril, 1836), and Tokay gecko (Gekko gecko Linnaeus, 1758) on Curaçao, Dutch Antilles, and remarks on their Caribbean distributions (pp 34-44)

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Eric B. Liebgold, Hunter L. Liebgold, Maia J. Ransom and Tami S. Ransom
The spread of the parthenogenetic mourning gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril and Bibron, 1836) to Paradise Island, The Bahamas, with comments on citizen science observations of non-native herpetofauna (pp 45-49)

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Kevin C.K. Ma, Heather L. Hawk, Claire Goodwin and Nathalie Simard
Morphological identification of two invading ascidians: new records of Ascidiella aspersa (Müller, 1776) from Nova Scotia and Diplosoma listerianum (Milne-Edwards, 1841) from New Brunswick and Quebec (pp 50-64)

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Luís Felipe Skinner, Arthur de Albuquerque Tenório, Fábio Lopes Penha and Débora Carvalho Soares
Depth and density distribution of the invasive vermetid Eualetes tulipa (Rousseau in Chenu, 1843) in the southwestern tropical Atlantic (pp 65-79)

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Jamila Rizgalla, James E. Bron, Fabio Crocetta, Andrew P. Shinn and Sara A.A. Almabruk
First record of Aplysia dactylomela Rang, 1828 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Libyan coastal waters (pp 80-86)

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Benoit Gouillieux and Cécile Massé
First record of Monocorophium uenoi (Stephenson, 1932) (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Corophiidae) in the Bay of Biscay, French Atlantic coast (pp 87-95)

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Tatiparthi Srinivas, Soniya Sukumaran and Heidy Q. Dias
Extended distribution of Phtisica marina Slabber, 1769 (Crustacea: Amphipoda): first observation of alien Caprellid in the coastal waters of Indian subcontinent (pp 96-107)

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Paola Gianguzza, Gianni Insacco, Bruno Zava, Alan Deidun and Bella S. Galil
Much can change in a year: the Massawan mantis shrimp, Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) in Sicily, Italy (pp 108-112)

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Miguel Angel Fuentes, Laura Torrent, Sergio Barrera and Dani Boix
Rapid invasion of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula (pp 113-118)

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Mouloud Benabdi, Alae Eddine Belmahi and Samir Grimes
First record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) in Algerian coastal waters (southwestern Mediterranean) (pp 119-122)

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Pedro Morais, Miguel Gaspar, Erwan Garel, Vânia Baptista, Joana Cruz, Inês Cerveira, Francisco Leitão and Maria Alexandra Teodósio
The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 expands its non-native distribution into the Ria Formosa lagoon and the Guadiana estuary (SW-Iberian Peninsula, Europe) (pp 123-133)

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Pierluigi Piras, Giuseppe Esposito and Domenico Meloni
On the occurrence of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus (Rathbun, 1896) in Sardinian coastal habitats (Italy): a present threat or a future resource for the regional fishery sector? (pp 134-141)

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Michele Mistri, Adriano Sfriso, Andrea Augusto Sfriso and Cristina Munari
Distribution and population structure and dynamics of the red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) in the eastern Po Valley and its Delta (northeastern Italy) (pp 142-153)

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Clayton T. Bennett, Alison Robertson and William F. Patterson III
First record of the non-indigenous Indo-Pacific damselfish, Neopomacentrus cyanomos (Bleeker, 1856) in the northern Gulf of Mexico (pp 154-166)

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Vasiliki Kousteni and George Christidis
Westward range expansion of the Indo-Pacific nakedband gaper Champsodon nudivittis (Ogilby, 1895) in Saronikos Gulf, Greece (pp 167-174)

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Nina Vuković, Vedran Šegota, Antun Alegro, Nikola Koletić, Anja Rimac and Stjepan Dekanić
“Flying under the radar” – how misleading distributional data led to wrong appreciation of knotweeds invasion (Reynoutria spp.) in Croatia (pp 175-189)

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Luís Catarino, Bucar Indjai, Maria Cristina Duarte and Filipa Monteiro
Chromolaena odorata invasion in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa): first records and trends of expansion (pp 190-198)

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