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Grapsoid crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) new to the Sirte Basin, southern Mediterranean Sea—the roles of vessel traffic and climate change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2009

Jeanne Zaouali ,
Jamila Ben Souissi ,
Bella S. Galil ,
Cedric d'Udekem d'Acoz  and
Abdallah Ben Abdallah
Jeanne Zaouali
Affiliation:
Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisia
Jamila Ben Souissi
Affiliation:
Institut National Agronomique de Tunisie, 43 Avenue Charles Nicolle, Tunis, Tunisia
Bella S. Galil*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, POB 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel
Cedric d'Udekem d'Acoz
Affiliation:
Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Département Invertébrés Récents, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium
Abdallah Ben Abdallah
Affiliation:
Marine Biology Research Centre, POB 30830, Tajura, Tripoli, Libya
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Bella S. Galil, National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, POB 8030, Haifa 31080, Israel email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Specimens of the grapsoid crabs Grapsus granulosus, Plagusia squamosa and Pachygrapsus transversus were recently collected in the Sirte Basin, on the southern rim of the Mediterranean Sea. The Erythrean alien G. granulosus is reported for the first time from the Mediterranean Sea, along with the second record in the Mediterranean of the Indo-Pacific P. squamosa, and the first record of P. transversus along the south-central Mediterranean coast. The relations between introduced grapsoid crabs, vessel traffic and climate change are dicussed.

Keywords

GrapsidaePlagusiidaealien speciesMediterranean Seahull fouling
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e73
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2007

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