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Search the Web | Invasive Potential
As A. dactylomela have such a wide distribution range and the apparent ability to quickly adapt to novel environmental conditions, there have been reports of increased invasive potential (Çinar et al. 2006). For example, in 2006 an A. dactylomela individual was sited along the Levantine coast of Turkey (Çinar et al. 2006). As a result of their large size and chemical defenses, there are not many natural predators for the species. With their voracious appetites A. dactylomela, or any, Aplysia for that matter would therefore have the potential of causing massive devastation in areas by severely depleting algal abundance and thereby changing the local ecosystem dynamics (Çinar et al. 2006). |
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