Occurrence of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 in two Mediterranean coastal habitats: Temporary visitor or permanent resident?

Mancinelli, Giorgio; Carrozzo, Leonardo; Costantini, Maria Letizia; Rossi, Loreto; Marini, Gabriele; Pinna, Maurizio

doi:10.1016/j.ecss.2013.06.008

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“…comm.). Fishers observations, the number of individuals caught, as well as the fisheries exploitation of the species in the area, indicate a wellestablished population of C. sapidus in Corfu Island, as in the neighbouring areas of Albania (Beqiraj & Kashta, 2010) and south Italy (Mancinelli et al, 2013). …”

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New Mediterranean Marine biodiversity records (December, 2013)

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Based on recent biodiversity studies carried out in different parts of the Mediterranean, the following 19 species are included as new records on the floral or faunal lists of the relevant ecosystems: the green algae Penicillus capitatus (Maltese waters); the nemertean Amphiporus allucens (Iberian Peninsula, Spain); the salp Salpa maxima (Syria); the opistobranchs Felimida britoi and Berghia coerulescens (Aegean Sea, Greece); the dusky shark Carcharhinus obscurus (central-west Mediterranean and Ionian Sea, Italy); Randall's threadfin bream Nemipterus randalli, the broadbanded cardinalfish Apogon fasciatus and the goby Gobius kolombatovici (Aegean Sea, Turkey); the reticulated leatherjack Stephanolepis diaspros and the halacarid Agaue chevreuxi (Sea of Marmara, Turkey); the slimy liagora Ganonema farinosum, the yellowstripe barracuda Sphyraena chrysotaenia, the rayed pearl oyster Pinctada imbricata radiata and the Persian conch Conomurex persicus (south-eastern Kriti, Greece); the blenny Microlipophrys dalmatinus and the bastard grunt Pomadasys incisus (Ionian Sea, Italy); the brown shrimp Farfantepenaeus aztecus (north-eastern Levant, Turkey); the blue-crab Callinectes sapidus (Corfu, Ionian Sea, Greece). In addition, the findings of the following rare species improve currently available biogeographical knowledge: the oceanic pufferfish Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Malta); the yellow sea chub Kyphosus incisor (Almuñécar coast of Spain); the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus and the shortfin mako Isurus oxyrinchus (north-eastern Levant, Turkey).

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New Mediterranean Marine biodiversity records (December, 2013)

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“…Sci., 17/3, 2016, 634-643 635 The functional importance of the blue crab in coastal ecosystems of NW Atlantic and other native habitats has been repeatedly assessed (e.g. Baird & Ulanowicz, 1989;Dittel et al, 2000Dittel et al, , 2006Hines, 2007); conversely, to date an assessment of the trophic position and potential ecological impact of the species on benthic food webs has been performed only in two coastal basins in SE Italy (Mancinelli et al, 2013a;Carrozzo et al, 2014). In this study, we analysed the trophic position of C. sapidus in the Parila Lagoon, a coastal basin located in the estuary of the Neretva River (Croatia).…”

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The trophic position of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun 1896 in the food web of Parila Lagoon (South Eastern Adriatic, Croatia): a first assessment using stable isotopes.

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The Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus is to date widely distributed in the Mediterranean Sea, where is recognized as an Invasive Alien Species. Noticeably, while records of its occurrence are increasing, quantitative information on its functional role in the benthic food webs of invaded coastal habitats are scarce.Here, carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures were measured in C. sapidus and other representative taxa of the benthic flora and fauna sampled in summer in the Parila Lagoon, a coastal basin located in the Neretva River estuary area (Croatia). d15N values of individual blue crab specimens were used to calculate their trophic position (TP) , using the filter feeder mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis as the isotopic baseline. In general, the isotopic signature of C. sapidus was comparable with those characterizing invertebrate and fish predators (e.g., Hexaplex trunculus, Gobius niger). An average trophic position of 3.73 was estimated for the blue crab population. However, a considerable inter-individual variation was observed in TP values, significantly related with the size of the specimens. Interestingly, a hump-shaped quadratic polynomial resulted the best fitting model for the data, characterized for small-size individuals by a positive body size-TP relationship, leveling or even turning negative for larger adult crabs. The interplay between environmental factors and ontogenetic diet shifts in determining the trophic position of the blue crab and, ultimately, its ecological impact on the benthic community of the Parila Lagoon is discussed.

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“…The carapace length (distance between the tip of the frontal teeth and the posterior margin of the carapace) was 86 mm, and carapace width (distance between the tips of the longest lateral carapace spines) was 200 mm. This size is close to the maximum carapace width registered for this species until now (225 mm), with a wet weight of 550 g (Mancinelli et al, 2013). The dorsal carapace surface was brownish-green, with small white spots scattered mainly on its anterior side; the ventral surface was whitish with blue walking legs and bright blue cheliped fingers (Williams, 1974).…”

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“…It has also been reported in the Pacific Ocean, colonizing Japan since 1975 and Hawaii since 1985 (Eldredge, 1995). The first occurrence of the blue crab in the Mediterranean (Marina di Grado, Italy) was on 4 October 1949 (Mizzan, 1993); later C. sapidus was reported in many localities from the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, including Israel (Holthuis and Gottlieb, 1955), Turkey (Holthuis, 1961;Tureli Bilen and Yesilyurt, 2014;Yağlıoğlu et al, 2014), Greece (Kinzelbach, 1965), northern Albania (Beqiraj and Kashta, 2010), southern Croatia (Onofri et al, 2008;Dulčić et al, 2011), northern Italy (Manfrin et al, 2015), eastern Italy (Castriota et al, 2012), southern Italy (Florio et al, 2008;Mancinelli et al, 2013), northwestern Italy (Stasolla and Innocenti, 2014), and northeastern Spain (Ebro Delta) (Castejón and Guerao, 2013) (Figure 1). Recently, a specimen of C. sapidus was found in the Albufera lagoon (eastern Spain, October 2014) and in close sites such as Gandía (May 2015), although these last sightings have not been confirmed formally yet (https:// cienciagandia.webs.upv.es/en/2015/07/).…”

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