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Tag: invasive species

The mechanisms behind the huge size of individual silver-cheeked toadfish in the Mediterranean_1

The mechanisms behind the huge size of individual silver-cheeked toadfish in the Mediterranean

March 10, 2022January 4, 2024

The mechanisms behind the huge size of individual silver-cheeked toadfish in the Mediterranean_1
Silver-cheeked toadfish. Photo Mert Gokalp, provided by Aylin Ulman.

Silver-cheeked
toadfish Lagocephalus
sceleratus
, a poisonous invasive
species thriving in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea since the mid-2000s after it
crossed the Suez Canal from the Red Sea, is now reaching monstrous sizes around
the Greek islands near the Turkish coast.


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