The presence of the Indo-Pacific symbiont-bearing foraminifer Amphistegina lobifera in Greek coastal ecosystems (Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean)

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Published: Dec 2, 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.111
M.V. TRIANTAPHYLLOU
University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Dept. of Historical Geology-Paleontology, Panepistimiopolis 15784, Athens
O. KOUKOUSIOURA
University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Dept. of Historical Geology-Paleontology, Panepistimiopolis 15784, Athens
M.D. DIMIZA
University of Athens, Faculty of Geology & Geoenvironment, Dept. of Historical Geology-Paleontology, Panepistimiopolis 15784, Athens
Abstract
During the last decades, hundreds of species of Indo-Pacific origin from the Red Sea have traversed the Suez Canal and settled in the Eastern Mediterranean. Nowadays, Amphistegina lobifera Larsen, is known to be a successful immigrant that is widely distributed in the coastal ecosystems of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Amphistegina is the most common epiphytic, symbiont- bearing large foraminifer. In this study we provide additional data on the presence of this species in the coastal ecosystems of Aegean Sea, Greece. The high relative abundance of A. lobifera is the result of very successful adaptation of this species to local conditions and suggests that it has become a significant part of the epiphytic foraminiferal fauna.
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