OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Bioinvasions Records is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating the range expansion of recreational non-native fishes in Portuguese freshwaters using scientific and citizen science data	16
Predicting the potential distribution of Ranunculus sardous (Ranunculaceae), a new alien species in the flora of Uzbekistan and Central Asia	15
First incidence of the invasive fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith, 1797) attacking maize in Malaysia	14
On the occurrence of three exotic decapods, Callinectes sapidus (Portunidae), Portunus segnis (Portunidae), and Trachysalambria palaestinensis (Penaeidae), in northern Tunisia, with updates on the dis	13
First records of the alien amphipod Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841) in the Neman River basin (Belarus)	11
Macrobenthic success of non-indigenous species related to substrate features in the Mar Grande of Taranto, Italy (Mediterranean Sea)	11
Introduction, dispersal, establishment and societal impact of the long-tailed silverfish Ctenolepisma longicaudata (Escherich, 1905) in Norway	11
Anisandrus maiche Kurentzov (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), an Asian species recently introduced and now widely established in Northern Italy	10
Non-indigenous species in marine and brackish waters along the Normandy coast	9
Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species	9
First record of the invasive biofouling mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from clam ponds in Taiwan	8
First report of the Chinese sleeper Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 in the Drava River, Croatia	8
Continued eastward spread of the invasive ambrosia beetle Cyclorhipidion bodoanum (Reitter, 1913) in Europe and its distribution in the world	7
A worrying arrival: the first record of brown macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae in Madeira Island and its invasive risk	7
Alborán Island, a small meeting point for three invasive lizards, whose geographic origin is uncovered by molecular analysis	7
First wild record of Australian redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) in the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia	7
Expansion of invasive Adenocaulon adhaerescens Maxim. (Asteraceae) in Moscow Region	7
First record of the non-indigenous freshwater snail Galba humilis (Say, 1822) (Mollusca: Hygrophila: Lymnaeidae) in Japan	7
Range expansion of the alien red-eared slider Trachemys scripta (Thunberg in Schoepff, 1792) (Reptilia, Testudines) in Eastern Europe, with special reference to Latvia and Ukraine	7
Invasion of synanthropic silverfish continues: first established populations of Ctenolepisma calvum (Ritter, 1910) revealed in the Czech Republic	7
On the occurrence of Abudefduf spp. (Pisces: Pomacentridae) in the Mediterranean Sea: a critical review with new records	6
New records of digenetic trematodes infecting Melanoides tuberculata (O.F. Müller, 1774) in Florida, USA	6
Utilization of citizen science data to monitor alien species: the box tree moth Cydalima perspectalis (Walker, 1859) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) invades natural vegetation in Greece	6
First record of a marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis (Lyko, 2017) population in France	6
Additional records of the bivalves Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831) (Dreissenidae) and Arcuatula senhousia (Benson, 1842) (Mytilidae)in the Ponto-Caspian region	6

The invasive Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 expands its distributional range southward to Atlantic African shores: first records along the Atlantic coast of Morocco	6
Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species?	5
An update of the known distribution and status of Cherax spp. in Italy (Crustacea, Parastacidae)	5
New records of two invasive ambrosia beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) to mainland China	5
The invasive parthenogenetic marbled crayfish Procambarus virginalis Lyko, 2017 gets foothold in Belgium	5
First record of naturalization of Scaevola taccada (Gaertn.) Roxb. (Goodeniaceae) in southeastern Mexico	5
First record of the ascidian Ascidiella aspersa (Mϋller, 1776) in southern California	5
First confirmed occurrence of the invasive mussel Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) in Guangdong and Hainan, China, and its rapid spread in Indo-West Pacific regions	5
New report of an alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii Troost, 1835) introduced into the wild in the Republic of Korea	5
Distribution of Aphanomyces astaci Schikora, 1906, the causative agent of crayfish plague, in the Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia	4
First successful reproduction of the Chinese striped-necked turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) in a European wetland	4
Records of new and rare alien fish in North African waters: the burrowing goby Trypauchen vagina (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) and the bartail flathead Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Egypt an	4
An American in the Aegean: first record of the American lobster Homarus americanus H. Milne Edwards, 1837 from the eastern Mediterranean Sea	4
Alien plant species of Haenertsburg Village, Limpopo Province, South Africa	4
New occurrence of Pinctada imbricata radiata (Leach, 1814) in the Balearic Archipelago (NW Mediterranean Sea)	4
From classical collections to citizen science: change in the distribution of the invasive blowfly Chrysomya albiceps (Wiedemann, 1819) in Chile	4
Filling gaps via citizen science: Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 (Cnidaria: Scyphozoa: Mastigiidae) in Cyprus (eastern Mediterranean Sea)	4
Occurrence in Mexico of two European invasive slug species: Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 and Arion intermedius (Norman, 1852)	4
First records of Amaranthus palmeri, a new emerging weed in southern Africa with further notes on other poorly known alien amaranths in the continent	4
Microsporidia are coming: Cucumispora ornata and Dictyocoela berillonum invade Northern Britain	4
The increased occurrence of Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Walbaum, 1792) in the Faroe Islands	4
New records of alien monkey goby, Neogobius fluviatilis (Pallas, 1814), in the waters of the Great Masurian Lakes system (north-eastern Poland)	4
Distribution and impacts of invasive parrot’s feather (Myriophyllum aquaticum) in China	4
Species list and distribution of non-native freshwater turtles in Hong Kong	4
First record of mass occurrence of the tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) (Serpulidae: Polychaeta) in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea	3
First records of the alien bush-crickets Rhacocleis annulata Fieber, 1853 and Yersinella raymondii (Yersin, 1860) (Orthoptera) in Slovakia	3
Invasive portunid crabs in Libyan waters: first record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 and range expansion of the swimming blue crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775)	3
First Canadian record (Ladysmith Harbour, British Columbia) of the non-native European sponge Hymeniacidon perlevis (Montagu, 1814) (Porifera, Demospongiae)	3
A marine invasive benthic diatom species [Licmophora normaniana (Greville) Wahrer, 1985] in an inland oasis mineral spring in Egypt	3
New evidence supporting upstream pathways of Hypania invalida (Grube, 1860) invasion	3
An outbreak of Perna perna (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Mytilidae) in the Eastern Mediterranean	3
The spread of the alien oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the lower Danube, with the first record from Romania	3
An alarming mariculture breach in a coral reef: alien barramundi Lates calcarifer (Bloch, 1790) at the Northern Red Sea	3
The first record of oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense (De Haan, 1849 [in De Haan, 1833–1850]) (Decapoda: Palaemonidae) in the Ukrainian part of the Danube Delta	3
Abundance and size structure of invasive brown bullhead, Ameiurus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819), in a mesotrophic lake (north-eastern Poland)	3
Invasions of the non-indigenous red alga Lophocladia lallemandii (Montagne) F. Schmitz off the Island of Ischia (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy)	3
Peracarid crustaceans in the River Danube and its tributaries: results of the 4th Joint Danube Survey	3
Population dynamics of invasive Argentine ant Linepithema humile Mayr, 1868 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) haplotypes in Kobe Port, Japan, and implications for the prediction of future dispersal and effect	3
2019 Rapid Assessment Survey of marine bioinvasions of southern New England and New York, USA, with an overview of new records and range expansions	3
First report of the South American tomato pinworm Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) and its damage in the Democratic Republic of Congo	3
Genetic evidence for the invasion of Cymbella janischii (A. Schmidt) De Toni, 1891 in Japan	3
Record of invasive Rana huanrenensis Fei, Ye, and Huang, 1990 and Pelophylax nigromaculatus (Hallowell, 1861) on Ulleung Island, Republic of Korea	3
Additional records of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 in the Moroccan Sea, Africa	3
First record of the globally invasive planarian Girardia tigrina (Girard, 1850) sensu lato in Morocco	3
New records of the Indo-Pacific shrimp Urocaridella pulchella Yokeş & Galil, 2006 from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea	3
The first confirmed record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Maltese waters	3
First record of the northern brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) from Libyan waters	3
The blue swimming crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775) reaches the Adriatic Sea: a distant and disjointed occurrence	3
The brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Penaeidae) spreading northern in the Adriatic Sea: a first record from Croatia	3
Hidden in plain sight: first records of the alien earwig Euborellia femoralis (Dohrn, 1863) in Europe	3

The Ponto-Caspian quagga mussel, Dreissena rostriformis bugensis Andrusov, 1897, is established in Ireland	3
First record of the Asian seed beetle Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in Croatia	3
Invasive red alga Kappaphycus alvarezii on the reefs of the Gulf of Mannar, India – a persistent threat to the corals	3
Asclepias syriaca L. (Apocynaceae) and its invasiveness in the southern part of the Boreal region of Europe – evidence from Lithuania	3
First record and spread of the long-wristed hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus Say, 1817 in the North Frisian Wadden Sea (Germany)	3
A baseline survey to document the distribution and abundance of native and non-native barnacle species in Port Canaveral, Florida	3
First record of the invasive Chinese sleeper, Perccottus glenii Dybowski, 1877 (Gobiiformes: Odontobutidae) in the Black Sea	3
Expansion of the invasive alga Rugulopteryx okamurae (Dictyotaceae, Ochrophyta) in the Mediterranean Sea: first evidence as epiphyte of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia ramea (Cnidaria: Scleractinia	3
Origin of introduced Italian wall lizards, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810) (Squamata: Lacertidae), in North America	3
First report of the Black-headed python (Aspidites melanocephalus Krefft, 1864) found in the wild in the Republic of Korea	3
First record, DNA identification and morphometric characterization of Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg, 1793) in the southern Black Sea	2
New reports on Pseudopolydora (Annelida: Spionidae) from the East Coast of Florida, including the non-native species P. paucibranchiata	2
Records of the Australian redclaw crayfish Cherax quadricarinatus (von Martens, 1868) on the island of Puerto Rico	2
First record of Austrocylindropuntia cylindrica (Lam.) Backeb. and first data about the naturalization of Austrocylindropuntia subulata (Muehlenpf.) Backeb. in Algeria	2
Taxonomic requirements for better documenting and understanding biological invasions – the example of genetic weatherfish Misgurnus/Paramisgurnus sp. identification	2
First record of Arcania brevifrons Chen, 1989 (Decapoda; Leucosiidae) and further record of Macrophthalmus (Macrophthalmus) indicus Davie, 2012 (Decapoda; Macrophthalmidae) in Hellenic waters	2
Fanwort, Cabomba caroliniana A. Gray (Cabombaceae) in China: introduction, current status, ecological impacts and managementy	2
The American protobranch bivalve Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831) in European waters	2
Molecular identification of the Asian lady beetle Harmonia axyridis in Israel	2
First records of seed beetles Megabruchidius dorsalis (Fåhræus, 1839) and M. tonkineus (Pic, 1904) from three Balkan countries	2
First reports of invasive pheretimoid earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) of Asian origin in Atlantic Canada	2
First record of Heptapleurum arboricola Hayata (Araliaceae) as a casual non-native woody plant in the Mediterranean area	2
First record of exotic terrestrial flatworms (Tricladida: Geoplanidae) Bipalium vagum Jones & Sterrer, 2005 and Dolichoplana striata Moseley, 1877 with confirmation of Platydemus manokwari de Beau	2
An update on the known distribution and status of the coypu (Myocastor coypus) in Austria	2
First records of Scinax ruber, Podarcis siculus, Podarcis ionicus and their parasites in Latvia: fruit trade is an intercontinental alien herpetofauna and parasitofauna invasion vector into Europe	2
Population ecology of a wild population of red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) in the Free State Province, South Africa and implications for eradication efforts	2
Species identification and invasion pathways of an introduced snail Macrochlamys sp. in Japan	2
New record of the invasive red-eared slider Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied, 1838) on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China	2
Confirmation of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Papua New Guinea by molecular diagnostics of mitochondrial DNA COI gene	2
Verbena brasiliensis Vell.: a new record of an invasive alien species in the flora of Turkey	2
Sisymbrium irio L. (Brassicaceae): a new alien plant in Korea	2
First occurrence of the needle-spined urchin Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) (Echinodermata, Diadematidae) in the southern Mediterranean Sea	2
New records and disappearance from old sites of narrow-clawed crayfish Pontastacus leptodactylus in northwestern Russia	2
Distribution of two invasive alien species of Union concern in Cyprus inland waters	2
First record of Pontederia cordata L. (Pontederiaceae) in southern Spain and risk assessment for Europe	2
Amblycerus robiniae (Fabricius, 1781) (Chrysomelidae: Bruchinae), an alien species established in Europe	2
First record of the invasive alien species Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) in Turkey	2
First records of three new lizard species and a range expansion of a fourth lizard species introduced to Aruba	2
Recent expansion of the non-indigenous amphipod Chelicorophium curvispinum (G.O. Sars, 1895) in the Seine estuary	2
Non-native and invasive fish species of Lake Batur in Bali, Indonesia	2
First record of an African grass-feeding wasp (Tetramesa; Eurytomidae) on the invasive grass Eragrostis curvula (African lovegrass; Poaceae) in Australia	2
First record of quagga mussel, Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897, in Italy: morphological and genetic evidence in Lake Garda	2
The checklist of alien orthopterans (Orthoptera) and mantises (Mantodea) in Austria (2nd edition)	2
First report on the natural breeding of river cooter, Pseudemys concinna Le Conte (1830), in the Republic of Korea	2
Post-invasion spread of Chinese sleeper (Perccottus glenii) in the Lower Danube drainage (Budjak region of Ukraine)	2
The “code red” for Balkan vineyards: occurrence of Orientus ishidae (Matsumura, 1902) (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) in Serbia	2
Tapping into hard-to-get information: the contribution of citizen science campaigns for updating knowledge on range-expanding, introduced and rare native marine species in the Malta-Sicily Channel	2
New alien vascular plants of Slovakia: records from 2008–2021	2