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On the presence of the snapping shrimp, Alpheus rapacida (Decapoda: Caridea) on the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Tahir Özcan ,
A. Suat Ateş  and
Tuncer Katağan
Tahir Özcan*
Affiliation:
Department of Hydrobiology, Fisheries Faculty, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-İzmir, Turkey
A. Suat Ateş
Affiliation:
Department of Marine Biology, Fisheries Faculty, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, TR-17100 Çanakkale, Turkey
Tuncer Katağan
Affiliation:
Department of Hydrobiology, Fisheries Faculty, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-İzmir, Turkey
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: Tahir Özcan, Department of Hydrobiology, Fisheries Faculty, Ege University, 35100 Bornova-İzmir, Turkey email: tahir.ozcan@ege.edu.tr; tahozcan@yahoo.com
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Abstract

The Indo-West Pacific snapping shrimp, Alpheus rapacida was recently collected in Kuşadası Bay, located on the Aegean Sea coast of Turkey, on 8 October 2005. It is the first record of the species along the Aegean coast of Turkey.

Keywords

Alpheus rapacidaKuşadası BayAegean SeaTurkey
Type
Research Article
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 1 , January 2008 , e86
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2007

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