Table 3. Low probability Lessepsian migrants (LPLM)
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Cate- Taxon and species
Record of distribution and authority
Remarks
gory· (species in alphabetical
SuezCanai
Red Sea and
order)
Mediterranean
Indo-West-Pacific
Algae
4.2.1
Acrochaetium sargassicola
Port Said (Aleern, 1950)
- ? -
"agrees weil" with
Borg.
Bombay specimen
4.2.1
Acrochaetium subseriatum
Port Said, EI Arish
- ? -
India, Mauritius
Borg.
(Aleern, 1950)
4.2.2
Caulerpa mexicana
Israel---> Syria (Rayss, 1941, - ? -
Red Sea: Qoseir,
Florida, Canaries
Sonder
ex Kützing
1955; Rayss and Edelstein,
Yenbo, Jiddah
("Pantropicophyte" :
~
1960)
Rayss, 1955)
("migr'ant": Lipkin, 1972a)
n
s;::
2.2.4
Caulerpa racemosa
Tunis (Hamei, 1930)
Bitter Lake
Red Sea: widespread ("can be described as
~.
(Forsskäl) Agardh
Israel, Syria (Rayss, 1959)
(Lami, 1932)
pantropical" :
~
Asia Minor (Huve, 1957)
Aleem, 1950)
...
4.1.2
Caulerpa scalpelliformis
Syria (HameI, 1930)
- ? -
GulfofSuez
Also Brasilia, Canaries,
~
0
(Brown) Agardh
Israel (Carmin, 1934)
---> Indo-West-Pacific
DelagoaBay
S'
4.2.4
Gracilaria arcuata
Tunis (Feldmann, 1931)
- ? -
RedSea
("worldwide in warm seas":
Zanardini
Egypt (Aleern, 1948)
---> Indo-West-Pacific
Aleern, 1948)
4.2.1
Hypnaea cornuta
Alexandria (Aleern, 1948)
- ? -
Indo-West-Pacific
("worldwide" :
(Lamour) Agardh
Aleem,1948)
4.1.1
Hypnaea nidifica
Rhodes (Forti, 1928)
- ? -
Thor? (Reinbold,
Agardh
1898) Red Sea
4.2.1
Kylinia spathoglossi
Port Said, EI Arish
- ? -
South India
(Borg.) Aleem
(Aleern, 1950)
Lophocladia lallemandii
Algier (Feldmann and
- ? -
Red Sea: Suakin,
("hypothetic migrant since
(Mont.) Schmitz
Feldmann, 1938)
Dahlak
not reported from
Atlantic: Aleern, 1948)
4.3.2
Padina gymnospora
Israel (Rarnon and
- ? -
India?
(Kütz.) Vickers
Friedman, 1966)