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Additional UK records of the non-native prawn Palaemon macrodactylus (Crustacea: Decapoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Tim M. Worsfold  and
Christopher W. Ashelby
Tim M. Worsfold*
Affiliation:
Unicomarine, 7 Diamond Centre, Works Road, Letchworth, Herts, SG6 1LW, UK
Christopher W. Ashelby
Affiliation:
Unicomarine, 7 Diamond Centre, Works Road, Letchworth, Herts, SG6 1LW, UK
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Tim M. Worsfold, Unicomarine, 7 Diamond Centre, Works Road, Letchworth, Herts, SG6 1LW, UK email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Since the discovery of the non-native prawn Palaemon macrodactylus in the Orwell estuary in December 2001, the species is now reported from other estuaries in the greater Thames area: Stour, Medway and Thames. A specimen from archived samples from the Thames is now the earliest European record (1992) but the original site and date of introduction into Europe and Britain remains unknown. Competition with the native P. longirostris is a possibility and biologists and naturalists are advised to check prawn specimens from current and archived samples collected from any British or European estuary for P. macrodactylus.

Keywords

CrustaceaDecapodaCarideaPalaemon macrodactylusnew recordsdistributionUnited Kingdomalien species
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Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e48
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2006

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