Non-indigenous marine species of the Azores

• Author(s): Cardigos, Frederico ; Tempera, Fernando ; Ávila, Sérgio P. ; Gonçalves, João M. ; Colaço, Ana ; Santos, Ricardo S.
• Date: 2006
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1030
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
• Subject(s): Marine introductions; Non-indigenous; Species; Azores
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Copyright (c) Springer-Verlag and AWI 2006. Marine benthic species introduced to the Azores are collated from scientific publications, internal reports and own data. Twelve algae and 21 invertebrates are classified as non-indigenous species, 18 as cryptogenic. Two species of algae and two ascidians are regarded as particularly invasive along the shores of this oceanic archipelago.