First Record and Molecular Confirmation of the Brown Mussel Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Aegean Sea, Türkiye
Makaleler > Tam Makale · 2026
Yazarlar: Sinem Uğur, Mehmet Baki Yokeş, Selçuk YİĞİTKURT, Şükrü YILDIRIM, Yaşar DURMAZ
Thalassas: An International Journal of Marine Sciences, SCI Expanded İndekslerine Giren Dergi, Uluslararası, Wos, 2026, cilt 42, ss 1-7
DOI: 10.1007/s41208-026-01135-y
Özet
<p><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">This article reports the evidence of the bioinvasion of the widely invasive mytilid mussel </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Perna perna</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> (Linnaeus, 1758) on the Türkiye coast. A freshly dead shell and a live specimen of </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">P. perna</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> were collected for the first time from the Tuzla site in Izmir Bay, Türkiye. During the commercial harvest of Mediterranean mussels (</span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">Mytilus galloprovincialis</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">) at a mussel farm off the coast of Tuzla, Izmir, in March and August 2024, the brown mussel </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">P. perna</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> was found at a depth of 8 m. The freshly dead shell, discovered in March, measured 115.08 mm in length, while the live specimen, recorded in August, had a shell length of 102.83 mm. Additionally, the genetic analysis of 607 base pairs revealed a 100% match with </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">P. perna</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> sequences in both the NCBI BLAST search and the Barcode ID search on the BOLD platform. This article also provides an overview of current </span><em style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">P. perna</em><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(34, 34, 34);"> records in the Mediterranean Sea, including recent findings from the Aegean coast of Türkiye.</span></p>