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Ammothea hilgendorfi (Böhm, 1879), an Adventitious Pycnogonid new for the Mediterranean Sea
Author(s) -
Krapp Franz,
Sconfietti Renato
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
marine ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.668
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1439-0485
pISSN - 0173-9565
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0485.1983.tb00291.x
Subject(s) - mediterranean sea , suez canal , mediterranean climate , oceanography , settling , biology , geography , fishery , environmental science , geology , ecology , environmental engineering , water resource management
. The authors demonstrate the probable immigration and stable settling of the pycnogonid Ammothea hilgendorfi (B öhm , 1879) at one station in the lagoon of Venice. The species is widely distributed naturally on both sides of the Pacific Ocean and has probably immigrated on ship hulls through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean. Two more cases (the pycnogonid Anoplodactylus portus and the amphipod Elasmopus pectenicrus ) of adventitious species in this sea are compared.