Ed,
You are referring to Caulerpa taxifolia. It occurs now almost in the entire
Mediterranean Sea incl. Black Sea.
Wherever it managed to settle it has upset totally the ecology of that
region. Hundreds of reports have been written about it and formed also a
point of discussion on the Conch-L net in 1998. Try a search machine, type
in the scientific name of that seaweed and you receive hundreds of webpages
dealing with it.
Regards,
Henk K. Mienis
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From: Eddie Clamp <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Way to go, Henk!!


> Henk's reminder that it is unwise to send live organisms from one region
to
> another (except perhaps cows - BSE could cause a lot more folks to turn
> vegitarian, which is a GOOD thing....) is timely and a good thing for us
as
> malacologists & Conchologists to remember: so many dissasters have already
> occured because of introduced molluscs - zebra mussels, bananana slugs,
> Achatina
> spp, that snail in Florida (something rosea?) that is eating up anything
it
> can
> bore into.... One never knows if something imported for study reasons will
> escape or not, so it is the best policy to study or enjoy organisms in
their
> home territory.
>
> Cheers,
> Ross.
>
>
> Yes agreed! On another tack, having watched a  TV program about the Med's
> killer algae spreading from France I wonder how far up the Med it is now!
> Has this seaweed originated from Jaque C's museum in Monaco? Its now
reached
> the US of A I hear! :-((
>
> Has it reached Israel Henk?
>
> Regards
>
> Ed