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Mediterranean Marine Science View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by National Documentation Centre - EKT journals Mediterranean Marine Science Vol. 11, 2010 Macrophthalmus graeffei A. Milne Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae): a new Indo-Pacific guest off Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece) PANCUCCI- Hellenic Centre for Marine PAPADOPOULOU M.A. Research, Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 712, P.C. 19013, Anavyssos, Attiki CORSINI-FOKA M. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodes NALETAKI M. Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 2214, P.C. 71003, Gournes Pediados, Irakleion, Crete https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.103 Copyright © 2010 To cite this article: PANCUCCI-PAPADOPOULOU, M., CORSINI-FOKA, M., & NALETAKI, M. (2010). Macrophthalmus graeffei A. Milne Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae): a new Indo-Pacific guest off Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece). Mediterranean Marine Science, 11(1), 195-200. doi:https://doi.org/10.12681/mms.103 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 21/02/2020 06:32:24 | Mediterranean Marine Science Short Communication Indexed in WoS (Web of Science, ISI Thomson) The journal is available on line at http://www.medit-mar-sc.net Macrophthalmus graeffei A. Milne Edwards, 1873 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Macroph- thalmidae): a new Indo-Pacific guest off Rhodes Island (SE Aegean Sea, Greece) M. A. PANCUCCI-PAPADOPOULOU1, M. CORSINI-FOKA2 and M. NALETAKI3 1 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 712, 19013 Anavissos, Hellas 2 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodos, Hellas 3 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, P.O.Box 2214, Gournes Pediados, 7103, Crete, Hellas Corresponding author: [email protected] Received: 31 March 2010; Accepted: 20 April 2010; Published on line: 06 May 2010 Abstract A new alien crab, the macrophthalmid Macrophthalmus graeffei, is reported from the western coastline of Rhodes Island. The species, of Indo-West Pacific origin, is known from muddy sediments up to about 80 m depth. In the Mediterranean, its presence has been observed along Levantine coasts as well as along the Turkish coast of the Aegean Sea. Macrophthalmus graeffei increases to twelve the number of alien brachyurans present in the Hellenic SE Aegean Sea, ten of them having Indo-Pacific origin. Keywords: Alien crustaceans; Decapoda; Brachyura; Macrophthalmidae; Macrophthalmus graeffei; SE Aegean Sea. Introduction Macrophthalmus graeffei A. Milne Ed- wards, 1873, known from Samoa, New Cale- Macrophthalmus is a widely distributed donia, the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf genus of the family Macrophthalmidae, oc- (Barnes, 2010) is the only species of the genus curring in the Indian Ocean, the West and spreading into the eastern Mediterranean Central Pacific Ocean from South Africa, through the Suez Canal. It was first record- the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf in the ed from southern Turkey (ENZENROSS west to the Sea of Japan in the North, to & ENZENROSS, 1995). Since then, the Hawaii and the Tuamotu Archipelago in the presence of Macrophthalmus graeffei has east, and to Tasmania and New Zealand been recorded from Haifa Bay, Israel in the south (BARNES, 2010). (KSIUNIN & GALIL, 2004), Lebanon Medit. Mar. Sci., 11/1, 2010, 195-200 195 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 21/02/2020 06:32:24 | (LAKKIS & NOVEL-LAKKIS, 2005), Göko- in the sublittoral (5-74 m) (GALIL et al., va Bay, the Aegean coast of Turkey (ATE 2002, updated 2009). et al., 2007), and from the Bay of Iskenderun, SE Turkey (GALIL et al., 2002, updated Results and Discussion 2009). The observed specimen was a male with Material and Methods carapace length of 1.1 cm; it is now de- posited in the Hellenic Centre for Marine A single specimen of M. graeffei was col- Research collection, registration number lected on July 20, 2009, during a survey of C102 (Fig. 2).The species was identified the soft bottom benthic fauna along the coasts following the latest identification keys pro- of Rhodes island (Station RA1, Gulf of Tri- duced by BARNES (2010), and fits quite anta: 36Æ25.501N 28Æ10.473E, Fig. 1) by well with the description given by BARNES means of a Ponar grab (0.045m2 sampling (1971). surface). The specimen was found at 39.6 m According to BARNES (2010), M. gra- depth, in sandy mud (sand 25.6%, silt 43.1%, effei belongs to the M. telescopicus group, clay 31.3%). The species is known to inhabit which is characterized by extremely shallow muddy substrata along the Turkish elongate ocular peduncles, projecting be- coasts (ATE et al., 2006; ATE & KATA yond the lateral carapace margins and bear- AN 2008), as well as fine sand with little mud ing a terminal projection (style, Fig. 3). Fig. 1: Location of the sampling site. 196 Medit. Mar. Sci., 11/1 2010, 195-200 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 21/02/2020 06:32:24 | Fig. 2: Macrophthalmus graeffei, ventral view. Fig. 3: Detail of style. Fig. 4: Spiniform anterolateral teeth and orbital margin. Medit. Mar. Sci., 11/1, 2010, 195-200 197 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 21/02/2020 06:32:24 | Front and carapace are relatively broad, the way for Lessepsian immigrants spreading presence of three spiniform anterolateral within the Aegean and the Western Mediter- teeth and lower orbital margin serrate (Fig. ranean Seas (PANCUCCI-PAPADO- 4), inner surface of chela distally pilose, short POULOU et al., 2005a, b; CORSINI-FOKA fingers and undeflexed index are the addi- & ECONOMIDIS, 2007). tional features distinguishing the species. The spread of Indo-Pacific alien crabs To date, 12 alien brachyuran species (in- towards the southern part of the Aegean Sea cluding the record of the Indo-Pacific Macroph- is limited to Th. poissonii, previously men- thalmus graeffei reported here) have been tioned, while no records support their dis- identified along the coasts of Rhodes Island, persion in the Central Aegean Sea. This in- 10 of Indo-Pacific and 2 of Atlantic origin dicates the existence of impediments in their (CORSINI-FOKA & PANCUCCI-PAPA- colonization progress, such as, for example, DOPOULOU, 2010), increasing the total the discontinuity of the substrate and/or the number of alien species reported from Greek hydrological and physicochemical condi- waters (ZENETOS et al., 2009). tions, although there is a lack of scientific Of the ten Indo-Pacific crabs occurring data available and the area needs examina- in the southeastern Aegean waters after col- tion. On the other hand, towards the north onizing the eastern and northern Levantine of this crucial area, I. monodi has been record- coasts, half, namely Charybdis longicollis ed from the North East Aegean Sea, at Saros Leene, 1938, Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne Ed- Bay (ARTÜZ, 2007a) and C. signata from wards, 1867), Portunus pelagicus (Linnaeus, the Sea of Marmara (ARTÜZ, 2007b). It is 1758), Myra subgranulata Galil & Golani, probably due to their higher adaptability and 1990 and Coleusia signata (Paulson, 1875), ability to colonize different environments in have been signalled westwards from the Suez a relatively short time, following the shallow Canal, along the Egyptian coasts (GALIL, coastline waters of the Anatolian continen- 2006), but no further westwards (GALIL et tal shelf. However, the contribution of sec- al., 2002, updated 2009), with the exception ondary introduction vectors is not to be un- of P. pelagicus, which occurs along the coasts derestimated in facilitating their so far spread- of Sicily and up to the Northern Tyrrhenian ing northwards. Sea (CROCETTA, 2006). In Hellenic waters, except for Thalami- Acknowledgements ta poissonii [considered to have been in- troduced via the Suez Canal (GALIL et al., Our thanks go to two anonymous 2002; GALIL, 2006) or a questionable alien reviewers for comments and suggestions (ZENETOS et al., 2005)] first recorded in on the manuscript. This study was support- the Aegean Sea (the Peloponnisos and the ed by the Prefecture of the Dodecanese, Saronikos Gulf) as Th. admete (KALOPISSIS Project ‘Study of Alien Marine Biota from & KALOPISSIS, 1984) and subsequently in the SE Aegean’. Crete (D’UDEKEM D'ACOZ, 1994), all the remaining Indo-Pacific alien brachyu- rans have been first recorded along the coasts References of Rhodes. This testifies the importance of this section of the biogeographic ‘Lessep- ARTÜZ, M.L., 2007a. A new Lessepsian sian province’ (POR, 1990) as the main path- decapod in the northern Aegea Sea Ixa 198 Medit. Mar. Sci., 11/1 2010, 195-200 http://epublishing.ekt.gr | e-Publisher: EKT | Downloaded at 21/02/2020 06:32:24 | monodi (Holthuis & Gottlieb, 1956). tunus pelagicus (Linaneus 1758) (De- IJDR© Z-N Applied Biological Sciences, capoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) in the 73: 12-14. northern Tyrrhenian Sea. Crustaceana, ARTÜZ, M.L., 2007b. First record of "peb- 79 (9): 1145-1148. ble crab" Leucosia signata Paulson, 1875 D’ UDEKEM D’ ACOZ C., 1994. Contri- in the Sea of Marmara. Journal of Ap- bution à la connaissance des Crustacés plied Biological Sciences, 1 (3): 107-108. Décapodes Helléniques I: Brachyura. ATE , A.S. & KATA AN, T., 2008. De- Bios (Macedonia, Greece), Scientific An- capod crustaceans of soft-sediments on nals of the School of Biology 1 (2), 9-47. the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey (the ELNAIS, 2010. Ellenic Network on Aquatic Eastern Aegean Sea). Oceanological & Invasive Species http://services.ath.hcmr.gr/ Hydrobiological Studies, 37 (1): 17-30. ENZENROSS, R. & ENZENROSS, L., ATE , A.S., KATA AN, T. & KOCATA , 1995. Erstnachweis indopazifischer A., 2006. Bathymetric distribution of Brachyura (Crustacea: Decapoda) von Decapod Crustaceans on the Continental der turkischen Mittelmeerkuste. Stuttgarter Shelf along the Aegean coasts of Turkey.
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