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Some like it hot: Paracartia grani (Copepoda: Calanoida) arrival in the Thau lagoon (south of France—Mediterranean Sea)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Severine Boyer
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Systèmes Marins Côtiers, UMR5119, Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 093, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
Isabelle Arzul
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Génétique et Pathologie de l'IFREMER, BP 133, 17390 La Tremblade, France
Delphine Bonnet*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Systèmes Marins Côtiers, UMR5119, Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 093, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
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Correspondence should be addressed to: D. Bonnet, Laboratoire d'Ecologie des Systèmes Marins Côtiers, UMR5119, Université Montpellier 2, Place Eugène Bataillon, CC 093, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France email: delphine.bonnet@univ-montp2.fr
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Abstract

Paracartia grani originates from high latitudes and has progressively been recorded in the Mediterranean Sea since the 1980s. In Thau lagoon, while Acartia clausi and Acartia discaudata present maximum peaks of abundance from January to April and in November and December, both species being perennial over the year, P. grani and Paracartia latisetosa appear in May, develop during summer, in July and August, and slowly decrease in autumn before disappearing from the water column in December. The Acartiidae populations have changed over the years at our monitoring station. Indeed, P. latisetosa was last recorded in August 1983 while P. grani appeared in the lagoon in 1998.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012

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