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Figure 22. Charybdis lucifera (http://zukan-bouz.com/detail.php?id=1116)
The latest additions to the inventory of the marine decapod species in the Eastern
Mediterranean Sea are the pilumnid crab Eurycarcinus integrifrons (Ozcan et al.,
2010) and the red swimming crab Gonioinfradens paucidentatus (Corsini-Foka et al.,
2010), both of Indo-Pacific origin.
Eurycarcinus integrifrons
The alien pilumnid crab, Eurycarcinus integrifrons is native to the Red Sea-Indian
Ocean reaching to the Red Sea and Madagascar (De Man 1879, Apel 2001) (Fig. 23),
and was recently recorded for the first time in the Mediterranean from the
Yumurtalik coast of Iskenderun Bay (Levantine Sea, Turkey) (Özcan et al. 2010).
Transport in ballast is supposed the most likely vector of introduction into the
eastern Mediterranean of Eurycarcinus integrifrons in Iskenderun Bay (Turkey), an
area subjected to intense industrial shipping traffic.
Figure 23. Eurycarcinus integrifrons (http://www.flickr.com/photos/artour_a/5815746734/).
To date, five species of alien Pilumnidae have been recorded in the Mediterranean
Sea: Actumnus globulus Heller, 1861; Glabropilumnus laevis (Dana, 1852);
Pilumnopeus vauquelini (Audouin, 1826); Pilumnus minutus De Haan, 1835 (=
Pilumnus hirsutus Stimpson, 1858); and Halimede tyche (Herbst, 1801) (CIESM,
