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Giuseppe Scaduto

  • Biodiversity Journal, 10 (4): 365-368

    Salvatore Giacobbe, Medea Lo Piccolo & Giuseppe Scaduto
    Forty-seven years later: the blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Crustacea Decapoda Portunidae) reappears in the Strait of Messina (Sicily, Italy)
    https://doi.org/10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2019.10.4.365.368

    ABSTRACT
    The second record of the invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Crustacea Decapoda Portunidae) from the Strait of Messina has been reported, forty-seven years after the first record in this area. The specimen, a large-sized adult female, was collected in the Capo Peloro Lagoon, a natural reserve whose brackish waters represent a highly favorable environment for this euryhaline opportunistic species. The actual possibility that C. sapidus may settle in the Lagoon should be carefully evaluated, and a mitigation strategy, involving selective removal of pioneer specimens, timely envisaged.