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First record of Say's mud crab Dyspanopeus sayi (Brachyura: Xanthoidea: Panopeidae) from the Black Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2010

Dragoş Micu ,
Victor Niţă  and
Valentina Todorova
Dragoş Micu*
Affiliation:
National Institute for Marine Research and Development ‘Grigore Antipa’, 900581 Constanţa, Romania
Victor Niţă
Affiliation:
National Institute for Marine Research and Development ‘Grigore Antipa’, 900581 Constanţa, Romania
Valentina Todorova
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences ‘Fridtjof Nansen’, Varna, Bulgaria
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: D. Micu, Marine Living Resources Department, National Institute for Marine Research and Development ‘Grigore Antipa’, 300 Mamaia Blvd., 900581 Constanţa, Romania email: dragos.micu@gmail.com
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Abstract

Specimens of Say's mud crab Dyspanopeus sayi, including ovigerous females, were identified in the estuarine part of Constanţa Harbour during early September 2009. Native to the Atlantic coast of North America, until now D. sayi was introduced in Britain and in the northern Adriatic, where it became abundant and is spreading. The considered vector to the Black Sea is via shipping from the northern Adriatic (Ravenna). The crab already has a well-established population in the Romanian Black Sea and it might spread to the whole of the Black and Azov Seas and the adjacent estuaries, deltas and limans.

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Dyspanopeus sayiBlack SeaRomaniasmall bivalve predatorestablished
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 3 , June 2010 , e36
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2010

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