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Recent Changes in the Distribution of Autochthonous Marine Molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea

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The changes in the distribution of two autochthonous molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea are described from the early nineteenth century to date. Echinolittorina punctata (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) had until the end of the twentieth century a distribution limited to the western Mediterranean (southern Spain and from Morocco to northern Tunisia, a few localities in southern Sicilia) and to the eastern Mediterranean (from Egypt to Syria). At the end of the twentieth century the range started to expand to all along the coast of Sicilia and northward along the Italian peninsula. Today, the species is found north of Roma. Eastonia rugosa (Bivalvia: Mactridae) used to have a distribution limited to the western Mediterranean, not exceeding the Siculo-Tunisian sill. During the end of the twentieth century and in the 2000s, the species was recorded from the Gulf of Gabès and from progressively northern localities in Italy. Today the species is found north of Livorno, in Toscana. The distributional changes of a few more Mediterranean molluscs is described in less detail, but wishes to highlight potential further descriptors of change of the biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Abbreviations

ANSP:

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

LACM:

Los Angeles County Museum

MCZR:

Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma

MZUB:

Museo di Zoologia dell’Università di Bologna

NMR:

Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam

SBMNH:

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History

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Acknowledgements 

Massimo Appolloni, Museo Civico di Zoologia in Roma allowed access to the collections under his responsibility (Meli, Monterosato, Rigacci, Settepassi). The following curators helped in sending information on lots in the collections under their responsibility: Paul Callomon, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, USA; Lindsey Groves, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, USA; Frans Slieker, Natural History Museum Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Mirco Travaglini and Stefania Brunetti, Library of the Department of Experimental Evolutionary Biology, University of Bologna kindly helped tracing hard to find literature.

A great number of people sent data about their findings to me and I wish to thank the whole shell collectors community for their support.

Marco Oliverio, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”, La Sapienza University, Roma, Bruno Sabelli, Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale of the University of Bologna, and Constantine Mifsud, Malta, made valuable comments on a first draft of the manuscript.

Maps were drawn using the coastline data downloadable from the OpenStreetMap website (http://planet.openstreetmap.org/).

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  1. Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Stefano Goffredo

  2. Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel

    Zvy Dubinsky

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Albano, P.G. (2014). Recent Changes in the Distribution of Autochthonous Marine Molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea. In: Goffredo, S., Dubinsky, Z. (eds) The Mediterranean Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1_17

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