“…During the last ten years a variety of aspects of Aristeus antennatus (Risso, 1816) have been studied in detail in the western and central Mediterranean Sea, such as fisheries (Demestre and Lleonart, 1993;Demestre and Martín, 1993;Bianchini and Ragonese, 1994;Martínez-Baños, 1997;Sardà et al, 1998a;García-Rodríguez and Esteban, 1999;Carbonell, et al, 1999Carbonell, et al, , 2003Ragonese et al, 2001;Mytilineou et al, 2001;Papaconstantinou and Kapiris, 2001;Cau et al, 2002;Tudela et al, 2003), biology (Matarrese et al, 1992Sardà and Cartes, 1993;Ragonese and Bianchini, 1996;Mura et al, 1997;Follesa et al, 1998;Orsi Relini and Relini, 1998;Sardà et al, 1998b;Kapiris et al, 2002;García-Rodríguez, 2003), ecology (Sardà et al,1994;Sardà and Cartes, 1997;D'Onghia et al, 1997;Cartes and Maynou, 1998;Mura et al, 1998;Kapiris et al, 1999), and physiology (Company and Sardà, 1998;Puig et al, 2001). A number of research projects have been carried out on this species recently (RESHIO, COCTEL, DESEAS, INTERREG II, MEDITS, MEDBARI, MED-AQUA...).…”