First record of the gastropod Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767) in the English Channel

Jean-Philippe Pezy (1) , Aurore Raoux (1) , Francis Kerckhof (2) , Jean-Claude Dauvin (1)

1 M2C - Morphodynamique Continentale et Côtière
2 RBINS - Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences

Here we report the first record of the red mouthed rock shell Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767) (Gastropoda, Muricidae) a predatory gastropod newly introduced to the English Channel. This species originally lives in the western Atlantic, eastern Pacific and Mediterranean Sea. Three specimens were collected on Pecten maximus at St-Martin-de-Bréhal, Normandy, France, on 2 February 2018. We present some hypotheses about the mode of introduction of S. haemastoma and its potential impact on the ecosystem in the English Channel.

Keywords: Muricidae; first record; Introduced species; Normandy; non-native species; Pecten maximus

Domains: Environmental Sciences; Biodiversity and Ecology

Jean-Philippe Pezy, Aurore Raoux, Francis Kerckhof, Jean-Claude Dauvin. First record of the gastropod Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767) in the English Channel. BioInvasions Records, 2019, 8 (2), pp.266-272. ⟨10.3391/bir.2019.8.2.08⟩. ⟨hal-02153586⟩