Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Rapana venosa" in Portuguese language version.
The copy represented here is dredged near “RUMEDI KAVAK”, the point more to north of the strait of the Bosforo where it ends up in the Black Sea, to a depth of approximately 30 meters.
(francês betterrave, do latim beta, -ae, acelga + latim rapa, -ae, nabo, colza).
The alien Asian gastropod Rapana venosa (Valenciennes 1846) was first recorded in 1973 along the Italian coast of the Northern Adriatic Sea.
Rapana venosa (Neogastropoda, Muricidae), found during the late 1990s in the inner region of the Río de la Plata (Scarabino et al. 1999, Pastorino et al. 2000).
Strong evidence indicates larvae arrived by ballast water.
