A specimen of the rare crab, Heterocrypta maltzami (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenophidae) was caught during a bottom trawl survey in the Strait of Sicily in 2004, on the African shelf off Lampedusa Island (central Mediterranean Sea), at a depth of about 90 m. This individual, a female of 10 mm carapace length and 12 mm carapace width, represents the first documented record of this species in the Strait of Sicily.
First record of Heterocrypta maltzami Miers, 1881 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenopidae) in the Strait of Sicily
Massi D;Giusto GB;Pipitone C
2010
Abstract
A specimen of the rare crab, Heterocrypta maltzami (Decapoda, Brachyura, Parthenophidae) was caught during a bottom trawl survey in the Strait of Sicily in 2004, on the African shelf off Lampedusa Island (central Mediterranean Sea), at a depth of about 90 m. This individual, a female of 10 mm carapace length and 12 mm carapace width, represents the first documented record of this species in the Strait of Sicily.File in questo prodotto:
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