| Main Ref. | Bartley, D.M. (comp./ed.), 2006 |
| To | Israel |
| FAO area | |
| From | Indian Ocean, Western |
| FAO area | |
| Year | 1953 |
| Range | |
| Period | 1950-1974 |
| Established in the Wild | yes |
| Established in Aquaculture | |
| Significant Ecological Interactions | unknown |
| Significant Socio-economic Effects | |
| Introduced by | unknown |
| Reason | unknown |
| Other Reason | |
| Comments | Worldwide : Indo-West Pacific. Mediterranean : recorded first from Israel (Holthuis, 1956 [1953]); successively recorded from Egypt (Ramadan and Dowidar, 1976); Lebanon (Shiber, 1981); southern Turkey (Grippa, 1982 [1976]; Kocatas, 1981a). |