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    The Lessepsian migration (also called Erythrean invasion) is the migration of marine species along the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean...
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    become a major component of the Mediterranean ecosystem. Known as the Lessepsian migration, the introduced species have caused serious impacts on the Mediterranean...
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    considered an endangered species in the South China Sea. A Lessepsian migration refers to the migration of a marine species from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean...
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    Pacific Oceans, but now also occur in the Mediterranean Sea due to Lessepsian migration. Nemipterus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1839 by...
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    colonised the Red Sea by migrating through the Suez Canal, an anti-Lessepsian migration. It is rare in the relatively cold, far north of its range, including...
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    found in Mediterranean Sea, where it entered via the Suez Canal (Lessepsian migration). It has been found in the Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of...
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    is thought that this record is unlikely to be the result of anti-Lessepsian migration from the Mediterranean through the Suez Canal. Scorpaena scrofa is...
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    Mediterranean biota, and not vice versa; this phenomenon is known as the Lessepsian migration (after Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer) or Erythrean ("red")...
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    giving rise to new colonies there and often becoming invasive. Most Lessepsian migrations are of Red Sea species invading the Mediterranean Sea; few occur...
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    rivulatus have become established in the eastern Mediterranean via Lessepsian migration. They are commercially important food fish, and can be used in the...
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