Lessepsian migration
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The Lessepsian migration is the migration of marine species along the Suez Canal, usually from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and more rarely in the opposite direction. When the canal was compl
The Suez Canal, along which marine species migrate from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, in the original Lessepsian migration.
Construction of the Suez canal
Fistularia commersonii, a Lessepsian migrant
European seabass: one of the few anti-Lessepsian migrants
Great Bitter Lake
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The Great Bitter Lake is a large saltwater lake in Egypt which is part of the Suez Canal. Before the canal was built in 1869, the Great Bitter Lake was a dry salt valley or basin. References are made
Lessepsian migration
…slightly higher in elevation than the eastern Mediterranean, the canal serves as a tidal strait by which Red Sea water pours into the Mediterranean. The Bitter Lakes, which are natural hypersaline lakes that form part of the canal, blocked the migration of Red Sea species into the Mediterranean for many decades, but…
The Great Bitter Lake from low orbit (north is left)
Suez Canal EO