EASIN - European Alien Species Information Network

Kostas Tsiamis
8/6/2018 - 1:55 PM

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Need to clarify the status of Bugula neritina in the Greater North Sea; is the species alien or native or cryptogenic (alien status not sure)?

Marco FAASSE
3/28/2019 - 7:37 PM

Bugula neritina is presumed to have been introduced on ships to the British Isles (Hayward & Ryland 1998). As it is distributed in warmer waters of the world, its origin is not clear, hence it is a cryptogenic species. A further complication is that it is a species complex (Fehlauer-Ale et al. 2014). 

Fehlauer-Ale, K. H., Mackie, J. A., Lim-Fong, G. E., Ale, E., Pie, M. R. & Waeschenbach, A. (2014). Cryptic species in the cos- mopolitan Bugula neritina complex (Bryozoa, Cheilostomata). Zoologica Scripta, 43: 193–205.

Hayward PJ, Ryland JS (1998) Cheilostomatous Bryozoa: 1. Aeteoidea - Cribrilinoidea: notes for the identification of British species. 2nd ed. Synopses of the British fauna (New Series), 10. Field Studies Council: Shrewsbury, 366 pp

Kostas Tsiamis
3/29/2019 - 7:59 AM

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to be marked in EASIN as cryptogenic

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