Rissoides desmaresti (Risso, 1816)

Koulouri, Panayota, Gerovasileiou, Vasilis, Bailly, Nicolas & Dounas, Costas, 2020, Stomatopoda of Greece: an annotated checklist, Biodiversity Data Journal 8, pp. 47183-47183 : 47183

Rissoides desmaresti (Risso, 1816)

Meiosquilla desmaresti (Risso, 1816); Squilla desmaresti Risso, 1816

Distribution

E. Mediterranean: Crete Island, Agia Pelagia 15-18 m, coarse sand with biogenic detritus and Chania Bay ( Dounas and Steudel 1994); Messiniakos Gulf ( Guérin 1832); coasts of Cyprus, Famagusta, 36 m and Akrotiri, 54 m ( Lewinsohn and Manning 1980); Izmir Bay, Turkish Aegean Sea ( Kocataş 1981); southern coasts of Turkey ( Gökçe et al. 2016); larvae of this species have been found along the Turkish coasts of the Aegean ( Özel 1985); coasts of Israel, 40-57 m, sandy and muddy bottoms ( Lewinsohn and Manning 1980). Adriatic Sea: Gulf of Venice, 27 m, offshore sands covered by a layer of "red-mud" from Aluminium plant; Conero (70 and 75-80 m), NE of Ancona (54 m, 73 m of muddy sands with Cellaria sp.) and NE of Fano (52 m, sandy mud bottoms) ( Manning and Froglia 1979). W. Mediterranean: off Elba island, north Tyrrhenian Sea, 8 m, sandy bottom covered by Cymodocea nodosa meadow ( Ranieri and Mori 1991); off Nice and Gulf of Naples ( Manning 1977); Mallorca, Balearic Islands, 20 m, muddy sand; Sant Carles de la Ràpita, Catalonia, 18 m, terrigenous mud ( Abelló et al. 1993). Atlantic Ocean: along the European coast north to southern England and the southern North Sea to a depth of at least 75-80 m ( Manning 1977, Lewinsohn and Manning 1980 and references therein).