Relevant Synonyms Metapenaeus consobrinus Nobili, 1904 Misidentification -  photo : Bella Galil

SHORT DESCRIPTION Carapace pubescent. Rostrum with 7-8 teeth, excluding epigastric, on upper margin. Cervical, hepatic, orbito-antennal grooves ill defined. Orbital, antennal, hepatic and pterygostomian spines well developed. Crest of third abdominal segment grooved. Telson with one pair of immovable spines and three pairs of movable spines. Basial spines on first, second walking legs, ischial spine on first walking leg only. Petasma asymmetrical. Thelycum with submedian teeth of transversal plate more prominent than lateral teeth. color : body cream, irregularly mottled with orange-red. Uropods distally orange-red. common size : (max.) CL 2 cm, TL 8.4 cm. DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS Metapenaeopsis mogiensis consobrina lacks stridulating ridge laterally near posterior margin of carapace. BIOLOGY / ECOLOGY Poorly known. habitat : sandy-mud bottoms, 10-68 m.

1st MEDITERRANEAN RECORD Israel, 1997 [1996]. DISTRIBUTION Worldwide : Indo-West Pacific, Red Sea to Indonesia. Mediterranean : recorded first in Israel (Galil, 1997 [1996]). Subsequently recorded from Greece, Rhodes Isl. (Kevrekidis et al., 1998). Collected between 1996 and 2003, at depths between 3 and 26 m, off Kas Peninsula, off the southwestern coast of Turkey (Yokes and Galil, 2004). One specimen was collected in Banyas, Syria, in March 2006 (Hasan, pers. comm.). ESTABLISHMENT SUCCESS Unfrequent along the Israeli coast. speculated reasons for success : - MODE OF INTRODUCTION Presumably via the Suez Canal. IMPORTANCE TO HUMANS None.

KEY REFERENCES Crosnier A., 1991. Crustacea Decapoda: Les Metapenaeopsis indo-ouest-pacifiques sans appareil stridulant (Penaeidae). In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, Volume 9. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris (A), 152: 155-297. Fishelson L., 2000. Marine animal assemblages along the littoral of the Israeli Mediterranean seashore: the Red-Mediterranean Seas communities of species. Italian Journal of Zoology, 67: 393-415. Galil B., 1997. Two lessepsian migrant decapods new to the coast of Israel. Crustaceana, 70(1): 111-114.   Galil B.S., 2000a. A sea under siege - alien species in the Mediterranean. Biological Invasions, 2: 177-186. Nobili G., 1904. Diagnoses préliminaires de vingt-huit espèces nouvelles de Stomatopodes et Décapodes Macroures de la mer Rouge. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 10: 228-237. Perez-Farfante I. and B. Kensley, 1997. Penaeoid and sergestoid shrimps and prawns of the world. Keys and diagnoses for the families and genera. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, 175: 1-233. FEEDBACK / COMMENTS TO AUTHORS

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