Lessepsian

English 2019 December 7 Etymology vertical Ferdinand de Lesseps by Nadar.jpg French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894), who designed the Suez Canal Scomberomorus commerson Pakistan.jpg The narrow-barred Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson species) is a Lessepsian invasive species (sense 2) that has migrated from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal From en Lesseps, the surname of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805–1894) en ian suffix forming adjectives or nouns meaning ‘belonging to, relating to, or like’. Pronunciation en /leɪˈsɛp.sɪ.ən/ RP,GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Lessepsian.wav Southern England en Les seps i an Adjective - en obsolete rare Pertaining to the French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, who designed the Suez Canal. en The Suez Canal The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art London Published [by David Jones] at the Office,Southampton Street, Strand 30 September 1882 LIV 1,405 427 https://archive.org/details/saturdayreviewof5418unse/page/427/mode/1up 1 1036708132 The preposterous demands urged in connexion with the bombardment of Alexandria are the youngest, as the Lessepsian conception of the rights of the Canal Company is among the oldest, fruits of the same general ideas. en England and France in the East The National Review London Edward Arnold 1883 1 800 829735238 Did not Lord Palmerston declare that the construction of the canal was an impossibility? What subsequent occurrence can prevail over these two eternal truths? The Lessepsian policy has in fact been throughout a policy of absolute monopoly, which received its first and only defeat from Lord Beaconsfield's purchase of the Khedive's shares in 1875. en The Suez Canal The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art London Printed by Spottiswoode & Co. [...]; and published by David Jones, [...] 15 March 1884 57 1,481 340 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.95008/page/n381/mode/1up 1 1036708132 But, at the least, these gentlemen must have had two votes between them—that is to say, they could dispose of a fifth of the whole voting power which Great Britain, with its millions of holding, is ever to hope for according as far as the Lessepsian agreement goes. en marine biology Of or relating to organisms that migrate from the Red Sea to the eastern Mediterranean Sea by means of the Suez Canal. en F[rancis] D[ov] Por One Hundred Years of Suez Canal—a Century of Lessepsian Migration: Retrospect and Viewpoints Systematic Zoology Washington, D.C. Society of Systematic Zoology June 1971 20 2 146 1 10.2307/2412054 0039-7989 1026526178 reprinted in Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H[emphill] Brown Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries Chicago, Ill. w:University of Chicago Press 2004 434 https://books.google.com/books?id=0qjZjvBhMAkC&pg=PA434 978-0-226-49237-7 The Polychaeta Cirriformia semicincta, Branchiosyllis uncinigera and Spirobranchus giganteus, considered by [Lucien] Laubier (1966) to be lessepsian immigrants, are more probably circumtropical species, which are warm water relics along the Levant coast, where Laubier found them, and not necessarily immigrants through the Suez Canal. en F[rancis] D[ov] Por Crustacean Biogeography of the Late Middle Miocene Middle Eastern Landbridge Robert H. Gore; Kenneth L. Heck Crustacean Biogeography Crustacean Issues 4 Rotterdam; Boston, Mass. A[ugust] A[imé] Balkema 1986 abstract 69 https://books.google.com/books?id=K-TBhXILCkkC&pg=PA69 978-90-6191-593-5 0168-6356 The Middle East is an area of complex tectonic history through time, and this complexity is reflected in the biogeography of the region. Essentially, six historico-biogeographical 'strata' can be recognized among the crustaceans which inhabit the region. These are: [...] 6) Lessepsian migrants between the Mediterranean and Red Seas after the opening of the Suez Canal. en Lovrenc Lipej; Jakov Dulčić The Current Status of Adriatic Fish Biodiversity Huw I. Griffiths; Boris Kryštufek; Jane M. Reed Balkan Biodiversity: Pattern and Process in the European Hotspot Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004 300 https://books.google.com/books?id=0YbtOyL_XNUC&pg=PA300 978-1-4020-2853-3 After the construction of the waterway between the Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf of Suez – the Suez Canal – in 1869, hundreds of Erythrean species traversed the channel and settled in the Mediterranean. This process is called Lessepsian migration, after Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps, the French diplomat and engineer who built the canal. Lessepsian migration is considered to be an important factor in the increase of Mediterranean fish diversity. en M[ichel] Bariche; M. Sadek; M. S. Al-Zein; M. El-Fadel Diversity of Juvenile Fish Assemblages in the Pelagic Waters of Lebanon (Eastern Mediterranean) Hydrobiologia: The International Journal of Aquatic Sciences The Hague; Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers April 2007 580 1 115 10.1007/s10750-006-0461-0 0018-8158 860497783 reprinted in G. Relini and J. Ryland Biodiversity in Enclosed Seas and Artificial Marine Habitats: Proceedings of the 39th European Marine Biology Symposium, Held in Genoa, Italy, 21–24 July 2004 Developments in Hydrobiology 193 Dordrecht Springer 2007 115 https://books.google.com/books?id=odX4XI-2ANYC&pg=PA115 1 978-1-4020-6155-4 However, while many necto-benthic and benthic Lessepsian fish are thriving, the inshore pelagic fish communities do not seem much affected by the dozen Lessepsian species inhabiting this area [...]. en Preface Stefano Goffredo; Zvy Dubinsky The Mediterranean Sea: Its History and Present Challenges Dordrecht; Heidelberg w:Springer Science+Business Media 2014 v https://books.google.com/books?id=4VfFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR5 10.1007/978-94-007-6704-1 978-94-007-6703-4 Ongoing changes in biodiversity are presented as driven by the increasing influx of Lessepsian Indo-Pacific invaders, facilitated by the exponential growth of cargo shipping and the "tropicalization" of the Mediterranean. Derived terms en Lessepsian migration Translations pertaining to the French diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps Greek: el λεσεψιανός of or relating to organisms that migrate by means of the Suez Canal French: fr lessepsien Greek: el λεσεψιανός Italian: it lessepsiano Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: kmr lessepsî Portuguese: pt lessepsiano Spanish: es lessepsiano Noun en marine biology Any species that migrated in this manner. Further reading Lessepsian migration en eponyms