Main Introduction Way of Indo-Pacific and Red Sea Originated Benthic Foraminifers to the Eastern Mediterranean

Year 2015, Volume: 2 Issue: 3, 7 - 14, 31.12.2015

Engin Meriç M. Baki Yokeş Niyazi Avşar Feyza Dinçer

https://doi.org/10.30897/ijegeo.303555

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Majority of the alien foraminifers recorded in the eastern Mediterranean are Indo-Pacific originated
and entered the Mediterranean via Suez Canal. In this study, current literature on the alien benthic
foraminiferal fauna of the eastern Mediterranean was reviewed and the main dispersal pathways are
determined. Distribution patterns of the alien species suggests that most of the species are introduced
via Suez Canal and expand their range of distributions in a counter-clockwise manner by the general
surface currents of the eastern Mediterranean. However, not all, but some of the species have also
been dispersed westwards along the North African coast and reached central Mediterranean.
Locally abundant records of Euthymonacha polita (Chapman), Coscinospira acicularis (Batsch)
and Amphistegina lobifera in the Aegean Sea indicates that Suez Canal may not be the only vector
for the Indo-Pacific species to enter eastern Mediterranean and submarine springs help these
thermophilic species to form establish populations in cool waters of the northern Aegean and the Sea
of Marmara

Keywords

Foraminifera, Eastern Mediterranean, Diversity

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