Southern distribution limit of the European lobster, Homarus gammarus (Decapoda, Nephropidae) on the coast of northwest Africa with remarks on its habitat, and a new record from the Canary Islands
2022
Gonzalez, Jose A.
The European lobster, Homarus gammarus (Linnaeus, 1758) (Decapoda, Astacidea, Nephropidae) is an eastern Atlantic cold-temperate species, reported from the Lofoten Islands, north-western Norway, south along the Atlantic coasts of Europe, the Azores, and the Atlantic coast of Morocco. Also, along the northwest coast of the Black Sea and in the Mediterranean (but lacking in the extreme eastern part, east of Crete). Not present in the Baltic Sea (Holthuis, 1987, 1991; Nizinski, 2014). Not reported for the Madeira (Araújo & Calado, 2003) and Canary archipelagos (González, 2018; González et al., 2021). However, the southern limit of distribution of the species on the coast of Northwest Africa has not been precisely established. This distributional limit has been fixed as “Atlantic coast of Morocco” (Holthuis, 1987, 1991) with a map indicating an approximate distribution up to 23°N, and as “southern Morocco, as far south as Agadir, and perhaps southward to Ifni” (Nizinski, 2014) with a map that places the limit apparently at the latitude of Tarfaya (27°52′N), further south than indicated in the text.
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