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First record of the phyllosoma larva of the pygmy locust lobster Scyllarus pygmaeus (Crustacea, Decapoda) in the eastern Mediterranean sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2024

Tamar Guy-Haim Open the ORCID record for Tamar Guy-Haim [Opens in a new window] ,
Anastasiia Iakovleva ,
Khristina Ermak ,
Ehud Spanier  and
Arseniy R. Morov
Tamar Guy-Haim*
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Tel Shikmona, P.O.B. 2336, Haifa 3102201, Israel
Anastasiia Iakovleva
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Tel Shikmona, P.O.B. 2336, Haifa 3102201, Israel Department of Maritime Civilizations, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Khristina Ermak
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Tel Shikmona, P.O.B. 2336, Haifa 3102201, Israel
Ehud Spanier
Affiliation:
Department of Maritime Civilizations, The Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, The Leon H. Charney School for Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa 3498838, Israel
Arseniy R. Morov
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, Tel Shikmona, P.O.B. 2336, Haifa 3102201, Israel
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Corresponding author: Tamar Guy-Haim; Email: tamar.guy-haim@ocean.org.il
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Abstract

Taxonomic intricacies and high interspecific similarity have hampered the identification of scyllarid phyllosoma larvae to the species level. The pygmy locust lobster, Scyllarus pygmaeus, is distributed across the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic; however, its phyllosoma larvae were previously recorded only from the western Mediterranean. We employed DNA barcoding using the mitochondrial COI gene to identify S. pygmaeus phyllosoma collected from the offshore waters of the southeastern Mediterranean Sea and described its morphology. We further discuss the lack of genetic structure in S. pygmaeus with potential implications for species connectivity and conservation.

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COIDNA barcodingintegrative taxonomyMediterranean seascyllaridaeslipper lobster

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 104 , 2024 , e49
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

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