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On the presence of the brachyuran crab Macropodia tenuirostris (Crustacea: Decapoda: Majidae) on the Levantine coast of Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2009

A. Suat Ateş ,
Şükran Yalçin Özdilek ,
Tahir Özcan  and
Tünay Kontaş
A. Suat Ateş*
Affiliation:
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Marine Biology, Fisheries Faculty, 17100 Çanakkale, Turkey
Şükran Yalçin Özdilek
Affiliation:
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Faculty of Education, Department of Biology Education, 17100Çanakkale, Turkey
Tahir Özcan
Affiliation:
Ege University, Department of Marine Biology, Fisheries Faculty, 35100Bornova-İzmir, Turkey
Tünay Kontaş
Affiliation:
Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Tayfur Sokmen Campus 31040 Antakya, Hatay, Turkey
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: A. Suat Ateş, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Department of Marine Biology, Fisheries Faculty, 17100 Çanakkale, Turkey email: asuatates@yahoo.com
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Abstract

The majoid crab, Macropodia tenuirostris is now reported off the Samandağ coast, Hatay, south-eastern Turkey. One male specimen of Macropodia tenuirostris was found on 31 January 2007 on a sandy bottom with a sea grass meadow, Halophila stipulacea (Forskål) Ascherson at a depth of 25 m (GPS coordinates: 36°01′24″N 35°58′33″E) by bottom trawl, with a cod-end mesh size of 22 mm. It is one of the six species of Macropodia in the Mediterranean Sea, and is widely distributed in the eastern Atlantic (Faeroe Islands, North Sea, all British coasts, southwards to Western Sahara, Cape Verde Islands) and in the entire Mediterranean. Macropodia tenuirostris as here reported presents the first record of this species for the Turkish part of the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Keywords

Macropodia tenuirostrisdecapodabrachyuraeastern MediterraneanTurkey
Type
Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e79
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2007

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