| Main Ref. | Bartley, D.M. (comp./ed.), 2006 |
| To | Israel |
| FAO area | |
| From | Indian Ocean, Western |
| FAO area | |
| Year | 1961 |
| 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-Pacific, Red Sea to Fiji. Mediterranean : recorded first from Israel (Lewinsohn and Holthuis, 1964 [1961]). Successively recorded from Lebanon (Shiber, 1981) and southern Turkey (Enzenross et al., 1990). |