On the occurrence of Penaeus pulchricaudatus (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata, Penaeidae) in the Canary Islands, its southernmost limit in the eastern Atlantic

Abstract

Penaeus japonicus Spence Bate, 1888 (Decapoda, Penaeidae), the kuruma shrimp, was believed to have a wide geographical distribution throughout the Indo-West Pacific Ocean. This species was also assumed to have penetrated the eastern Mediterranean in 1924 (Balss, 1927) and subsequently spread along the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, the Italian coasts and, in the eastern Atlantic, to northwest France, the English Channel and the Celtic Sea (Holthuis, 1980; Pérez Farfante & Kensley, 1997; Quigley et al., 2013; Fransen, 2014)