CIESM Atlas of Exotic Molluscs in the Mediterranean

ERRATUM: In January 2005 a major update corrected a number of errors present in the original printed version. We are deeply grateful to Prof. Bella Galil (Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Haifa), Drs Henk Mienis, Bogi Cesare, Giovanni Buzzurro, Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi and Paul Clark for their contribution to the Atlas of Exotic Molluscs.
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Check-list of exotic species ¹ (total: 137)
¹ Only those exotic species of Indo-Pacific origin that were recorded after 1920 and of Atlantic origin that were recorded after 1960 are considered.

Origin:
AA = American Atlantic, AS = Arabian Sea, CIRT = Circumtropical, IO = Indian Ocean, IP = Indo-Pacific, NEP = North Eastern Pacific Ocean, PG = Persian Gulf, PO = Pacific Ocean, RS = Red Sea, SC = Suez Canal, TP = Tropical Pacific Ocean, TA = Tropical Atlantic, WP = Western Pacific Ocean.

Status:
A = Alien: considered non-established, on the basis of one or two published records, often a single specimen.
E = Established: presumed established on the basis of at least two distincts records.
Q = Questionable: applies for a few taxa to which there remain unsettled taxonomic issues.