For all of you who go on collecting holidays in the Mediterranean, you may wish to look out for, and send records in for "exotic Molluscs"...
CIESM Atlas of Exotic Species in the Mediterranean - Vol. 3. Molluscs by Argyro Zenetos, Serge Gofas, Giovanni Russo and Jose Templado (376 pages with original color illustrations).
The data base of Exotic Molluscs in the Mediterranean Sea was developed by a CIESM task force of four biologists: Drs Argyro Zenetos (Natl. Center for Marine Research, Athens), Serge Gofas (Univ. Malaga), Giovanni Russo (Univ. di Napoli), Jose Templado (Museo Natl. de Ciencas Naturales, Madrid), with the assistance of the CIESM Editorial Panel. The website interface and design was created by the CIESM Secretariat.
You are invited to consult, and comment on, our overall list of Exotic Molluscs species in the Mediterranean which includes both 'established' species (presumed established on the basis of at least two distinct records) and 'alien' species (considered non-established, on the basis of one or two published records, often of single records). The list is arranged by family name in the customary sequence, and will provide direct access to the exotic species sheets. It is followed by an annotated list of species long considered "exotic" in the literature but now excluded by the task force for various reasons (misidentifications, indigenous species wrongly qualified as exotic, spurious records, very old records and cryptogenic species...).
Your feedback to the authors, in the form of suggestions, comments, eventual corrections, or new species propositions, will be most welcome and will help make the CIESM Atlas a constantly improving tool. Please follow the model developed in the sample sheets to suggest new species additions. Thank you.