SCIENTIA MARINA 71(1) March 2007, 19-28, Barcelona (Spain) ISSN: 0214-8358
Decapod crustacean assemblages off the West coast of central Italy (western Mediterranean) EMANUELA FANELLI 1, FRANCESCO COLLOCA 2 and GIANDOMENICO ARDIZZONE 2 1
IAMC-CNR Marine Ecology Laboratory, Via G. da Verrazzano 17, 91014 Castellammare del Golfo (Trapani) Italy. E-mail:
[email protected] 2 Department of Animal and Human Biology, University of Rome “la Sapienza”, V.le dell’Università 32, 00185 Rome, Italy.
SUMMARY: Community structure and faunal composition of decapod crustaceans off the west coast of central Italy (western Mediterranean) were investigated. Samples were collected during five trawl surveys carried out from June 1996 to June 2000 from 16 to 750 m depth. Multivariate analysis revealed the occurrence of five faunistic assemblages: 1) a strictly coastal community over sandy bottoms at depths
