Ctenophores of the Baltic and adjacent seas - The invader Mnemiopsis is here!

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 295-298

  Hansson, Hans G ^a  

^a GÖTEBORG UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; First record; Invasive; Mnemiopsis leidyi; North Sea; Skagerrak

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249720601     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2006.1.4.16     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Bayha KM, McDonald JH and Gaffney PM (2003) Molecular systematics of the invasive Ctenophore Mnemiopsissp. University of Delaware. Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, La Jolla, California, March 16-19. p. 11 (Abstract available at http://www.sgnis.org/publicat/bayhmcdo.htm)
2. Bilio M. and Niermann U (2004) Isthe comb jelly really to blame for it all? Mnemiopsis leidyiand the ecological concerns about the Caspian Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 269: 173-183
3. Bullard S. G, Lindquist NL and Hay ME (1999) Susceptibility of invertebrate larvae to predators: how common are postcapture larval defenses? Marine Ecology Progress Series 191: 153-161
4. Burrell V. G and Van Engel WA (1976) Predation by and distribution of a ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyiA. Agasssiz, in the York River Estuary. Estuar. Coas. t Mar. Sci. 4: 235-242
5. Costello J., Mianzan H and Shiganova T (2005) Mnemiopsis leidyi(comb jelly). (Available at: http://www.issg.org/database/species/ecology.asp?si=95&f r=1&sts=)
6. Faasse M. A and Bayha KM (2006) The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyiA. Agassiz 1865 in coastal waters of the Netherlands: an unrecognized invasion? Aquatic Invasions 1(4): 270-277
7. Gordina A. D, Zagorodnyaya JuA, Kideys AE and Satilmis AE (2005) Summer ichthyoplankton, food supply of fish larvae in the Black Sea during 2000 and 2001. J. mar. Biol. Ass. U.K. 85: 537-548
8. Javidpour J. (2006) Ctenophores in the Baltic (message written 31 October to the Cnidaria Newsgroup-original message available in an answer from O. Müller P. Oliveira at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/cnidaria/2006-November/001238.html and pictures at: http://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/public/cnidaria/2006-October/001235.html
9. Javidpour J., Sommer U and Shiganova T (2006) First record of Mnemiopsis leidyiA. Agassiz 1865 in the Baltic Sea. Aquatic Invasions 1(4): 299-302
10. Miller R. J (1974) Distribution and biomass of an estuarine ctenophore population, Mnemiopsis leidyi(A. Agassiz). Chesapeake Sci. 15: 1-8
11. Mills C. E, Pugh PR, Harbison GR and Haddock SHD (1996) Medusae, siphonophores and ctenophores of the Alborán Sea, south western Mediterranean. Scientia Marina 60 (1): 145-163
12. Mills C. E (2001) Jellyfish blooms: are populations increasing globally in response tochanging ocean conditions? Hydrobiologia 451: 55-68
13. Seravin L. N (1994) The systematic revision of the genus Mnemiopsis(Ctenophora, Lobata). II: Species attribution of Mnemiopsisfrom the Black Sea and the species composition of the genus Mnemiopsis. Zoologičeskij žurnal 73 (11): 19-34
14. Shiganova T. A, Mirsoyan ZA, Studenikina EA, Volovik SP, Siokoi-Frangou I., Zervoudaki S, Christou ED, Skirta AY and Dumont H (2001) A review of the invader ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi(A. Agassiz) population development in the Black Sea and in other seasof the Mediterranean basin. Marine Biology 139: 431-445
15. Shiganova T. A and Panov VE (2003) Mnemiopsis leidyiA. Agassiz, 1865. (Compiled for the Regional Biological Invasions Center. Available at: http://www.zin.ru/projects/invasions/gaas/mnelei.htm)