The current study provides new data on the known records of Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896, from Maltese Islands through two ovigerous female specimens collected Salini (Malta), a Natura 2000 site, in August 2020. Additional species were also presented San Leonardo River estuary, Syracuse (Sicily, Italy), 2022. both Malta and Sicily identified using morphological molecula...

Abstract The invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus has been frequently recorded during the last years along NW Mediterranean Sea, leading to established populations. Two megalopae of C. were found two different oceanographic surveys in open waters Balearic Archipelago, July 2005 and October 2011, previous first reference adult specimens documented sub-basin. analyzed environmental conditions s...