Occurrence of Pterois miles in the Island of Kefalonia (Greece): the Northernmost Dispersal Record in the Mediterranean Sea

• Christopher Vavasis ^[2] ; Gabriel Simotas ^[2] ; Efthimios Spinos ^[2] ; Evangelos Konstantinidis ^[3] ; Costas Perdikaris ^[3] ; Stella Minoudi ^[1] ; Alexandros Triantafyllidis ^[1]
  1. [1] Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

     Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

     Dimos Thessaloniki, Grecia

     
  2. [2] Department of Fisheries, Regional Unit of Kefalonia, Argostoli, Greece
  3. [3] Department of Fisheries, Regional Unit of Thesprotia, Igoumenitsa, Greece

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• Localización: Thalassas: An international journal of marine sciences, ISSN 0212-5919, Vol. 36, Nº. 1, 2020, págs. 171-175
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Pterois miles (Bennett, 1828) is one of the worst aquatic invaders in history and its rapid dispersal in the Mediterranean Sea raise serious concerns for local biomes. On April 2019, one adult specimen was caught by gillnets close to the shoreline of the island of Kefalonia, Greece. This occurrence, confirmed by DNA barcoding, represents the northernmost record of the species in the Mediterranean Sea, up today, suggesting that the Ionian Sea corridor facilitates fast dispersal of ecological versatile species such as P. miles to higher latitudes.