| Main Ref. | Bartley, D.M. (comp./ed.), 2006 |
| To | Italy |
| FAO area | Mediterranean and Black Sea |
| From | Tropical Atlantic |
| FAO area | |
| Year | 1964 |
| Range | |
| Period | 1950-1974 |
| Established in the Wild | yes |
| Established in Aquaculture | |
| Significant Ecological Interactions | unknown - undecided |
| Significant Socio-economic Effects | |
| Introduced by | unknown |
| Reason | unknown |
| Other Reason | |
| Comments | Widespread but rare. 1964 from Lago Fusaro (Schmekel, 1965); successively from Toscany coasts (Cattaneo-Vietti et al., 1990); Malta (Sammut and Perrone, 1998) and Greece (Koutsoubas et al., 2000). |