摘要：On August 2008, a single individual of the red king crab Paralithodes camtschaticus , a boreal species indigenous to the North Pacific, was caught by a gill net in the Ionian Sea, Central Mediterranean. The crab weighed 4 kg and it is estimated it was ten years old. Transport in ballast water seems the most likely way of introduction. If true, the implication is that this cold-water species is capable of surviving and growing to adulthood in a warm-temperate sea.
关键词：Crustacea;Decapoda;Lithodidae;Paralithodes camtschaticus;red king crab;alien species;Ionian Sea
