Short communication, Note

https://doi.org/10.32582/aa.60.2.7

First record of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) in the Greek Ionian Sea

Charalampos Dimitriadis ; National Marine Park of Zakynthos, E. Venizelou 1, 29100 Zakynthos, Greece
Ivoni Fournari - Konstantinidou ; National Marine Park of Zakynthos, E. Venizelou 1, 29100 Zakynthos, Greece
Antonio Di Franco ; Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00196 Rome, Italy
Maria Corsini-Foka ; Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodes, Greece

Abstract

The presence of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) is here reported for the first time from the southeastern Ionian Sea (Zakynthos Island, Greece). This record is the first evidence of the presence of a Lessepsian migrant crustacean in the aforementioned area while it fills the gap in the ongoing westward and northward distribution range expansion of this wide spread invader of the Mediterranean basin.

Keywords

Stomatopoda; Erugosquilla massavensis; Lessepsian migration; Mediterranean Sea; alien

Hrčak ID:

231319

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/231319

Publication date:

27.12.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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