International Introductions of Brachidontes pharaonis
Introductions as compiled by FAO
Main Ref. Bartley, D.M. (comp./ed.), 2006
To Lebanon
FAO area Mediterranean and Black Sea
da Red Sea
FAO area
Anno 1931
Range
Period 1925-1949
Established in the Wild yes
Established in Aquaculture
Significant Ecological Interactions unknown - adverse
Significant Socio-economic Effects
Introduced by unknown
Reason unknown
Other Reason
Commenti One of the earliest recorded and most successful of the Lessepsian immigrants, which now constitutes large, stable populations. Locally invasive. Port Said, Egypt in 1876 (Fuchs, 1878); successively from Lebanon (Gruvel and Moazzo, 1931).
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