Twelve years after the first report of the crab Percnon gibbesi (H. Milne Edwards, 1853) in the Mediterranean: Current distribution and invasion rates

Journal of Biological Research

Volumn 16, Issue , 2011, Pages 224-236

  Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a   Poursanidis, Dimitrios ^b,c   Yokes, Mehmet Baki ^d   MačIć, Vesna ^e   Beqiraj, Sajmir ^f   Kashta, Lefter ^f   Sghaier, Yassine Ramzi ^g,h   Zakhama Sraieb, Rym ^g   Benamer, Ibrahem ⁱ   Bitar, Ghazi ^j   Bouzaza, Zoheir ^k   Magni, Paolo ^l   Bianchi, Carlo Nike ^m   Tsiakkiros, Louis ⁿ   Zenetos, Argyro ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b WWF Hellas   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^d HALIC UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e Institute of Marine Biology   (Montenegro)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TIRANA   (Albania)

^g FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^h Regional Activity Centre for Specially Protected Areas (RAC/SPA)   (Tunisia)

ⁱ OMAR AL MUKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

^j LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MOSTAGANEM   (Algeria)

^l CNR   (Italy)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

ⁿ University of Genoa ^*  (Cyprus)

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Author keywords

Alien; Decapoda; Invasion rate; Mediterranean Sea; Percnon gibbesi

Indexed keywords

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PERCNON GIBBESI;

EID: 80052537882     PISSN: 1790045X     EISSN: 1790045X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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