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NOTES AND NEWS OCCURRENCE OF THE GUINEAN SPECIES HERBSTIA NITIDA MANNING & HOLTHUIS, 1981 (DECAPODA, BRACHYURA) IN A MEDITERRANEAN SUBMARINE CAVE AND A COMPARISON WITH THE CONGENERIC H. CONDYLIATA (FABRICIUS, 1787) BY FRANCESCO DENITTO 1,3 ) , MICHELE PASTORE 2 ) and GENUARIO BELMONTE 1 ) 1 ) Laboratorio di Zoogeografia e Fauna, Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento, I-73100 Lecce, Italy 2 ) Istituto per l’Ambiente Marino Costiero, Sez. Talassografico, CNR, Taranto, Italy INTRODUCTION Marine caves represent a peculiar habitat, characterized by particular environ- mental conditions that strongly affect the distribution of many species (Riedl, 1966; Bianchi et al., 1996). The reduced light intensity and the presence of many shel- ters on the rocky substrate over 360 ◦ (bottom, walls, and vault of the cave), make submarine caves an elective refuge for many benthonic crustaceans that are tra- ditionally considered a sciaphylous group (Gili & Macpherson, 1987; Pessani & Manconi, 1994; Manconi & Pessani, 2003; Denitto et al., 2009). Among the vagile benthic fauna, many species of Decapoda are found in these habitats (for a recent review, see Manconi & Pessani, 2003) but from a general point of view, scientific literature referring
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Published: Jan 1, 2010
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