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Zoologische Verhandelingen MINISTERIE VAN ONDERWIJS, KUNSTEN EN WETENSCHAPPEN ZOOLOGISCHE VERHANDELINGEN UITGEGEVEN DOOR HET RIJKSMUSEUM VAN NATUURLIJKE HISTORIE TE LEIDEN No. 47 REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF CRUSTACEA DECAPODA AND STOMATOPODA FROM TURKEY AND THE BALKANS by L. B. HOLTHUIS LEIDEN E. J. BRILL •20 februari 1961 .-^*JA Copyright 1961 by Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Netherlands All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or translated in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm or any other means without written permission from the publisher. PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS L REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF CRUSTACEA DECAPODA AND STOMATOPODA FROM TURKEY AND THE BALKANS by L. B. HOLTHUIS Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Holland Under the auspices of Leiden University and with the financial aid of various organisations and institutions, Messrs. E. Hennipman, P. Nijhoff, C. Swennen, A. S. Tulp, W. J. M. Vader, and W. J. J. O. de Wilde, most of whom are biological students of Leiden University, made a collecting trip to Turkey from March to July 1959. Extensive collections of plants and animals from Turkey were brought together, while moreover incidental collecting was done on the way home in Greece and Jugoslavia. A narrative of this trip will be published by Nijhoff & Swennen. The Decapod and Stomatopod Crustacea brought home by the expedition form an extensive and well preserved collection, which contains many very interesting items. It is gratifying to see that notwithstanding the short duration of the expedition and the limited means available these important results could be obtained. Most of the material was collected either in fresh water or in littoral marine habitats (0-5 m depth); on two occasions a trip with a commercial fishing boat could be made, during these trips material from deeper water was obtained. The accompanying map (fig. 1) shows the localities whence Decapoda and Stomatopoda were taken by the expedition, and other Turkish localities mentioned in the present paper. As extremely little is known about the Decapod fauna of Turkey, even the most common species in the present collection proved to be of interest. A number of Mediterranean species are now reported for the first time from Turkish waters. In addition, the Turkish south coast proved to lodge also several Indo-West Pacific species originating from the Red Sea which have entered the Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal and went north­ ward along the coasts of Egypt, Israel, the Lebanon and Syria. Several of such species are now reported for the first time from the Mediterranean. Interesting too is the presence of a North American immigrant, the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, in Turkish and Greek waters. The information on Turkish Crustacea is scattered over various publi­ cations, some of which are not easily accessible. However, in an appendix to their 1958 paper, Holthuis & Gottlieb (1958, pp. 111-120) listed all the Decapoda from the eastern Mediterranean known to them. In this list L. B. HOLTHUIS CRUSTACEA DECAPODA AND STOMATOPODA 3 all the Turkish records of these species are given. Recently, I became acquainted with a paper dealing with Turkish marine Decapoda which had escaped my attention when compiling the above cited list. This paper, by Colombo (1885), mentions several Decapoda dredged in the S.W. part of the Qanakkale Bogazi (= Dardanelles) between Qanakkale and its S.W. mouth. Apart from species dealt with in the present paper, Colombo mentioned the following Decapoda from that area: Periclimenes scriptus (Risso) (as Ancfiistia scripta, p. 25), Pontonia flavomaculata Heller (as P. Phallusiae, p. 23), Pontocaris cataphracta (Olivi) (as Crangon cataphractus, p. 23), Galathea squamifera Leach (p. 25), Pagurus cuanensis Bell (as Eupagurus lAicasii, p. 25), Pagurus alatus Fabr. (as Eupagurus angulatus, p. 26), Ebalia tuberosa (Pennant) (as E. Pennantii, p. 26), Macropipus corrugatus (Pennant) (as Portunus c, p. 23) Lmnbrus massena Roux (p. 26), Pisa armata (Latreille) (pp. 25, 26), Eurynome aspera (Pennant) (pp. 23, 26), and Inachus thoracicus Roux (pp. 23, 26). In 1959 Tortonese published a paper on the benthos of the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus in which a few species of Crustacea are mentioned. Two of these species are not re­ presented in the collections dealt with in the present paper, viz., Herbstia condyliata (Herbst) and Lambrus massena Roux, both of which were repor­ ted by Tortonese (1959, p. 21) from the Sea of Marmara between Faner bahce (Anatolia) and the island Kinali (Proti) from a depth of 15 to 25 m. The paper by Demir (1952) unfortunately could not be consulted by me; it is said to contain important information on Decapod Crustacea. It is likely that there are other papers on Turkish Decapoda which I have not seen, but the in forma1 ion on that group contained in the present paper and in the one by Holthuis & Gottlieb (1958) may form a basis for further study on the Decapoda of Turkish waters. All the material dealt with here is preserved in alcohol and forms part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie at Leiden. The collection numbers indicated with each lot are those of Mr. C. Swen- nen, to whom during the expedition the care of the larger part of the Crustacean collections was entrusted. Suborder Macrura Supersection Natantia Section Penaeidea Family Penaeidae 4 I.. B. IIOLTHUIS Penaeus kerathurus (Forskal, 1775) Aegean Sea near the harbour of Porto Lago, Thraki, Greece; 0-2 m deep; 29 June 1959; no. 160.— 1 male, 1 female. The male is 135 mm long, the female 183 mm. The female is impregnated. Though the species was not found by the expedition in Turkey, it has been reported from there by previous authors. Izmir ( = Smyrna) even is one of the type localities of the species. Forskal (1775, p. 95), namely, at the end of the description of Cancer kerathurus gave the localities "Smir- nae & Alexandriae". "Smirna" is now selected to be the restricted type lo­ cality of the species. The species has also been reported from the Iskenderun Bay (= Gulf of Alexandretta), namely by Monod (1931, p. 420; 1932, p. 67) and Gruvel (1936, p. 180). Penaeus kerathurus is known from the entire Mediterranean and from the eastern Atlantic between S. England and Angola. Penaeus japonicus Bate, 1888 1 to 2 km off the south coast of Turkey between Lara and Zincir, 10 to 18 km S.E. of Antalya; 15-20 m deep; bottom fine sand; fished with local fishing boat; 25 April 1959; no. 63.— 1 female. The above specimen is an impregnated female of 180 mm. The sperma- tophore is butterfly-shaped and protrudes quite far out of the thelycum. Penaeus japonicus is a species with a wide distribution in the Indo-West Pacific area. It has penetrated into the eastern Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal, and has been reported from near Port Said, and from the coast of Israel, where it reportedly is very common. Monod (1930, p. 138; 1931, p. 420; 1932, p. 67) mentioned the occurrence of the species in Iskenderun Bay (= Gulf of Alexandretta). The present record thus ex­ tends the known Turkish range of the species a considerable distance to the west. Penaeus semisulcatus De Haan, 1844 I to 2 km off the south coast of Turkey between Lara and Zincir, 10 to 18 km S.E. of Antalya; 15-20 m deep; bottom fine sand; fished with local fishing boat; 25 April 1959; no. 63.— 3 males, 4 females. 5 km off the south-east coast of Turkey near Mersin; 10 m deep; bottom sand; fished with local fishing boat; 18 May 1959; no. 96.— 1 male. The males are 139 to 185 mm long, the females 177 to 225 mm. Just as Penaeus japonicus, the present species has a wide distribution in the Indo-West Pacific area, and has penetrated into the eastern Me­ diterranean by way of the Suez Canal. It is known from the Israel and CRUSTACEA DECAPODA AND STOMATOPODA 5 Syrian coasts, being even of economic importance there. It has also been reported from two localities in Turkey, viz., from the Iskenderun Bay ( = Gulf of Alexandretta) by Monod (1930, p. 138; 1931, p. 420; 1932, p. 67) and Gruvel (1930, p. 478 as Paenus monodon; 1931, p. 118; 1936, p. T8I) and from Mersin Bay by Holthuis & Gottlieb (1958, p. 18). The present material shows that the range of the species extends westwards along the Turkish south coast at least as far as Antalya. It proves to be more common than P. japonicus. Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius, 1798) 5 km off the south-east coast of Turkey near Mersin; 10 m deep; bottom sand; fished with local fishing boat; 18 May 1959; no. 96.— 2 females. The specimens are 115 and 170 mm long. This too is an Indo-West Pacific species, which has entered the eastern Mediterranean by way of the Suez Canal. In the Indo-West Pacific area the range of the species extends from India to the Red Sea. The eastern Mediterranean records are from the Bay of Abukir near Alexandria, from Port Said, and from the Israel coast. The species is now for the first time reported from Turkey. Metapenaeus monoceros, Penaeus semisulcatus, and P. japonicus if taken in sufficiently large quantities are sold on the local markets in Antalya, but there is no special fishery for these prawns. Aasen & Akyiiz (1956, p. 15) showed that there is an important and growing shrimp fishery in Iskenderun Bay: 3.050 kg being exported in 1953, 37.255 kg in 1954. These shrimps (karides) are said by these authors (p. 10) to be Penaeus sp., but they probably include all Penaeids.
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