Table 2. High probability Lessepsian migrants (HPLM)
Cate- Taxon and species
Record of distribution and authority
Synonymy and Remarks
gorya
(species in alphabetical
order)
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Red Sea and Indo-Pacific
Algae
Diatomacea
Chaetoceros coarctatus
HaifaBay
-?RedSea
In both localities with an
(Kimor, pers. comm.)
(Kimor, pers. comm.)
epiphytic Vorticella
Rhizosolenia indica
Israel coast, Bardawil
SuezCanal
Indo-West -Pacific
Lagoon (Kimor, 1973)
(Ghazzawi,1936)
~
Macrophyta
::r
3.3.1
Acanthophora
Alexandria (Aleem, 1948)
SuezCanal
Suez, Ghardaqa, Aqaba,
= A.Delilei
(Aleem, 1948':
1:;.
rJ>
najadiformis
(Delile)
Jiddah, Hodeida
"The migration could have
po
Papenfuss
taken place in historical
t-'
0
times through the old
er;
rJ>
intermittent canal")
0
'Cl
rJ>
2.3.2
Acetabularia calyculus
Israel (Rayss, 1955)
Great Bitter Lake: 1967
Suez, N. Red Sea
= A.mediterraneum?
S'
1:1
Quoy et Gaimard
Bardawil Lagoon
(Lipkin, 1972a)
(Nasr, 1947;
= A.acetabulum
ofLyle
~
(Lipkin, 1972 a)
? (Lyle in Fox, 1926)
Papenfuss, 1968)
(Lipkin, 1972a)
äQ'
..,
4.2.4
' Acetabularia moebii
Alexandria (Aleem, 1948)
-?Ghardaqa (Nasr, 1947)
= A. Wettsteini
po
~
Solms-Laubach
Aigeria (Feldmann
and
-->
Indo-West-Pacific
Naples (Schussnig, 1930)
.",
Feldmann, 1947)
Israel (Rayss, 1955)
4.2.4
Cladophoropsis
Alexandria, Sallum
-?Red Sea, Persian Gulf
Cape
Horn
(? - unlikely)
zollingeri
(Aleem,1948)
-->
Indo-West-Pacific
(Kütz.) Börgesen
-->
Rosh Haniqra
(Rayss, 1955)
3.3.2
Hypnea esperi
Borg.
Israel (Lipkin, 1972a)
Little Bitter Lake 1967,
GulfofElat
Fertile plants in the Suez
1969 (Lipkin, 1972a)
(Rayss and Dor, 1963)
Canal (Lipkin, 1972a)
3.3.2
Hypnea valentiae
Rhodes (Reinbold, 1898)
(Lyle in Fox, 1926)
Ghardaqa, Aqaba,
Tor
"Possible transport by
(Turner) Montagne
(Papenfuss,1968)
ships" (Fritsch, 1895)
'-Cl
a
See key to symbols in Table 5.
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