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Figure 20. Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Fofonoff et al., 2003).
Figure 21. Distribution of Rhithropanopeus harrisii in Mediterranean Sea (CIESM, 2014).
Charybdis lucifera
The latest record caught six miles off the Venetian coast is that of the Indo- Pacific
crab Charybdis lucifera, (Mizzan and Vianello, 2009) (Fig. 22).
The original distribution of Charybdis lucifera goes from India to Japan,
including Australia (Stephenson, 1972), though the ways of transportation and the
causes of its introduction are unknown. It’s very likely that, owing to the increasingly
busy maritime traffic, the species was unintentionally introduced by passive
transportation of the planktonic larva in ballast water. As far as we know today, the
finding of this single specimen represents a single, isolated case (Mizzan and
Vianello, 2009).
