The presence of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) is here reported for the first time from the southeastern Ionian Sea (Zakynthos Island, Greece). This record is the first evidence of the presence of a Lessepsian migrant crustacean in the aforementioned area while it fills the gap in the ongoing westward and northward distribution range expansion of this wide spread invader of the Mediterranean basin.U ovom radu se iznosi prvi nalaz crvenomorske kozice Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880.) na jugoistoku Jonskog mora (otok Zakynthos, Grčka). Ovaj nalaz je prvi dokaz prisutnosti lesepsijskih migrantskih rakova na gore spomenutom području, čime se popunjava jaz u saznanju o širenju rasprostranjenja ovog “osvajača” mediteranskog bazena

Antonio Di Franco

Charalampos Dimitriadis

Ivoni Fournari - Konstantinidou

Maria Corsini-Foka

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Dimitriadis, Charalampos

Fournari - Konstantinidou, Ivoni

Di Franco, Antonio

Corsini-Foka, Maria

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First record of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) in the Greek Ionian SeaCharalampos DIMITRIADIS1*, Ivoni FOURNARI - KONSTANTINIDOU1, Antonio Di FRANCO2,3 and Maria CORSINI - FOKA41 National Marine Park of Zakynthos, E. Venizelou 1, 29100 Zakynthos, Greece2 Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FRE 3729 ECOMERS, Parc Valrose 28, Avenue Valrose, 06108 Nice, France3 Consorzio Interuniversitario per le Scienze del Mare, CoNISMa, Piazzale Flaminio 9, 00196 Rome, Italy4 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography, Hydrobiological Station of Rhodes, Cos Street, 85100 Rhodes, Greece*Corresponding author, e-mail: xdimitriadis@marine.aegean.grThe presence of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) is here reported for the first time from the southeastern Ionian Sea (Zakynthos Island, Greece). This record is the first evidence of the presence of a Lessepsian migrant crustacean in the aforementioned area while it fills the gap in the ongoing westward and northward distribution range expansion of this wide spread invader of the Mediterranean basin. Key words:  Stomatopoda, Erugosquilla massavensis, Lessepsian migration, Mediterranean Sea,           alien ISSN: 0001-5113AADRAYACTA ADRIAT.,60 (2): 187 - 192, 2019 SHORT COMMUNICATIONINTRODUCTIONAquatic invasions can have a considerable imprint on ecosystem services and biodiversity therefore resulting in ecological and economic impacts while raising conservation challenges (KATSANEVAKIS et al., 2014). The subphylum of Crustacea incorporates some of the most suc-cessful and widespread aquatic alien species that have invaded the Mediterranean Sea (ZENETOS et al., 2012). Among these species, Erugosquil-la massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), native to the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, is known as one of the very early invaders in the Mediterranean that dates back to 1933 while being the first stomatopod species introduced via the Suez Canal (STEUER, 1936; 1938). Today it thrives along the Levantine coasts and it is well expanded up to the Aegean and the Marmara seas (ÖZCAN et al., 2008; ELNAIS, 2017; CORSINI-FOKA et al., 2017). It has been recorded from the Libyan waters (SHAKMAN & KINZELBACH, 2007) and from the Tunisian coasts, which are the westernmost limits of its range size in the southern Mediterranean Sea (ABDELSALAM, 2014; OUNIFI BEN AMOR et al., 2015), while recently it has been reported in the southwestern Ionian Sea, off the island of Sicily, Italy (CORSINI-FOKA et al., 2017). The aim of this paper is to present the pres-ence of the alien E. massavensis for the first time in the Greek Ionian Sea presumably as a result of its westward distribution range expansion. 188  ACTA ADRIATICA, 60 (2): 187 - 192, 2019MATERIAL AND METHODSThe current research was conducted within the framework of the Interreg – Med research project ‘Fishing Governance in MPAs: Poten-tialities for Blue Economy’ FISHMPABLUE-2 that includes monitoring of small-scale fisheries catches. During the sampling activity of this pro-ject, which covered areas inside and outside the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (Zakytnhos Island, Southern Ionian Sea, Greece), a single specimen of E. massavensis was caught on the 9th of December 2017. This specimen was col-lected at 10m depth (37.775015 N; 20.905713E; WGS84) by means of a trammel net operated by a small scale fishing boat in close vicinity to Zakythnos town harbor and Agios Charalampis river estuary (Fig. 1).  The substrate of the sampled area is charac-terized as muddy with sandy patches. The speci-men was photographed and measured for total length (TL, in mm) onboard the fishing vessel by the authors. Identification of the specimen was based on LEWINSOHN & MANNING (1980) and GALIL et al. (2002).   Fig. 1. Location of the first record of Erugosquilla mas-savensis in the Greek Ionian Sea  Fig.2. Erugosquilla massavensis collected from the Greek Ionian Sea  RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONThe total length (TL) of the collected speci-men (Fig. 2) was 112 mm and it fell within the previously reported size range in samples from the Mediterranean region (GALIL et al., 2002; CORSINI-FOKA et al., 2017 and references therein).Following ELNAIS (2017) list and including the recently detected crab Dyspanopeus sayi (Smith, 1869) (ULMAN et al., 2017), a number of 24 alien marine crustacean decapod species and the stomatopod E. massavensis are reported from the Greek waters.  Up to the present study, only 4 of the above species have been reported and confirmed as elements of the Greek Ionian Sea, all of Atlantic origin, namely Callinectes sapidus, Percnon gibbesi and Penaeus aztecus and considered invasive species (Table 1). The finding of E. massavensis reported in this work documents the first record of a crusta-cean of Red Sea origin spread to the Greek Ion-ian Sea, after its introduction into the Mediter-ranean via the Suez Canal (one of the so-called Lessepsian migrant species). This finding fills the gap in the ongoing westward and northward distribution range expansion of this species in the Mediterranean since CORSINI-FOKA et al. (2017) recently reported its occurrence from the neighboring Ionian Italian waters. Still, the long lived pelagic larvae stage of E. massavensis (LEWINSHON & MANNING, 1980) may well con-tribute towards the expansion of its distribution range. However, the role of shipping as an introduc-tion vector should not be disregarded given the proximity of the area that this specimen was collected near to the biggest port of Zakytnhos Island as well as the heavy marine traffic in the Greek Ionian Sea (www.marinetraffic.com). 189DimitriaDis et al: First record of the Red Sea Mantis shrimp Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) ...The collected specimen was found in close proximity to Agios Charalampis river estuary. This finding constitutes further evidence that E. massavensis, albeit common in coastal areas and open waters, can also tolerate brackish waters (e.g. OUNIFI BEN AMOR et al., 2015; 2016; CORSINI-FOKA et al., 2017). The success of alien species establishment in the invaded ecosystems is dictated by sev-eral factors that include the abiotic character-istics of the invaded environment as well as the biological traits of the alien species and its recipient community (CATFORD et al., 2009). Thus colonization success of the invaders may arise as a result of their capability in occupying the unsaturated niche space and/or the competitive interactions with local species for food, space and shelter. In this respect, recent studies in the Eastern Mediterranean have demonstrated that E. massavensis have displaced the indigenous mantis shrimp Squilla mantis in both shallow and deeper waters (GÖKOĞLU et al., 2008; ÖZCAN et al., 2008). Although S. mantis forms part of the local crustacean fauna, in the Greek Southern Ionian Sea and Zakynthos Island (archives of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos) its interaction with E. massavensis is yet far from being understood and further data are needed to quantitatively address such effects. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSThe current research was conducted within the framework of the Interreg – Med research project “Fishing Governance in MPAs: Potenti-alities for Blue Economy” - FISHMPABLUE-2 co-financed by the European Regional Devel-opment Fund. 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Sci., 13: 328–352. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.327Received: 14 November 2018Accepted: 14 April 2019192  ACTA ADRIATICA, 60 (2): 187 - 192, 2019Prvi nalaz crvenomorske kozice Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) u Jonskom moru (Grčka) Charalampos DIMITRIADIS*, Ivoni FOURNARI - KONSTANTINIDOU, Antonio Di FRANCO i Maria CORSINI - FOKA*Kontakt, e-pošta: xdimitriadis@marine.aegean.grSAŽETAK U ovom radu se iznosi prvi nalaz crvenomorske kozice Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880.) na jugoistoku Jonskog mora (otok Zakynthos, Grčka). Ovaj nalaz je prvi dokaz prisutnosti lesepsijskih migrantskih rakova na gore spomenutom području, čime se popunjava jaz u saznanju o širenju rasprostranjenja ovog “osvjača” mediteranskog bazena.Ključne riječi: Stomatopoda, Erugosquilla massavensis, lesepsijske migracije, Sredozemno more  

Prvi nalaz crvenomorske kozice Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) u Jonskom moru (Grčka)

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