Part I In the Beginning
The Global Dispersal of Marine and Estuarine Crustaceans
James T. Carlton
Part II Global Dispersal
Human-Mediated Spread of Alien Crabs
Annette Brockerhoff and Colin McLay
The Global Spread of the Chinese Mitten Crab Eriocheir sinensis Matt G. Bentley
The Japanese Skeleton Shrimp Caprella mutica
(Crustacea, Amphipoda): A Global Invader of Coastal Waters
Karin Boos, Gail V. Ashton, and Elizabeth J. Cook
Part III Alien Faunas by Region
Barnacle Invasions: Introduced, Cryptogenic, and Range Expanding
Cirripedia of North and South America James T. Carlton, William A. Newman, and Fábio Bettini Pitombo
Marine Crustacean Invasions in North America: A Synthesis
of Historical Records and Documented Impacts
Gregory Ruiz, Paul Fofonoff, Brian Steves, and Alisha Dahlstrom
Alien Decapod Crustaceans in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Marcos Tavares
The Alien and Cryptogenic Marine Crustaceans of South Africa
Charles Griffi ths, Tamara Robinson, and Angela Mead
The Snow Crab, Chionoecetes Opilio (Decapoda, Majoidae,
Oregoniidae) in the Barents Sea
Ann-Lisbeth Agnalt, Valery Pavlov, Knut E. Jørstad,
E. Farestveit, and Jan Sundet
Alien Malacostracan Crustaceans in the Eastern Baltic Sea:
Pathways and Consequences
Nadezhda A. Berezina, Victor V. Petryashev, Arturas Razinkovas,
and Jurate Lesutiene
Alien Crustaceans along the Southern and Western Baltic Sea
Krzysztof Jazdzewski and Michal Grabowski
Checklist of Cryptogenic and Alien Crustacea
of the European Atlantic Coast
Pierre Y. Noël
The Alien Crustaceans in the Mediterranean Sea:
An Historical Review
Bella S. Galil
An Incoming Flood on a Cryptic Stage: Understanding
Alien Crustacean Invasions in Southeast Asia
Darren C.J. Yeo, James T. Carlton, Serena L.M. Teo,
and Peter K.L. Ng
Alien Marine Crustaceans of Japan: A Preliminary Assessment
Wataru Doi, Seiichi Watanabe, and James T. Carlton
Aliens in the Antipodes: Non-indigenous Marine Crustaceans
of New Zealand and Australia
Shane T. Ahyong and Serena L. Wilkens
Part IV Commercial Exploitation of Invasive Decapods
The Pacific White Shrimp, Litopenaeus Vannamei, in Asia:
The World's Most Widely Cultured Alien Crustacean
I Chiu Liao and Yew-Hu Chien
The Invasive History, Impact and Management of the Red King
Crab Paralithodes camtschaticus off the Coast of Norway
Lis Lindal Jørgensen and Einar M. Nilssen
The Commercial Exploitation of the Chinese Mitten Crab
Eriocheir sinensis in the River Thames, London: Damned
if We Don't and Damned if We Do
Paul F. Clark
Part V Case Studies
Live and Let Live: Invasive Host, Charybdis longicollis
(Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae), and Invasive Parasite,
Heterosaccus dollfusi (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala: Sacculinidae)
Gianna Innocenti and Bella S. Galil
Invasion History and Success of the American Blue Crab
Callinectes Sapidus in European and Adjacent Waters
Stefan Nehring
The Introduced American Lobster, Homarus americanus
in Scandinavian Waters
Knut E. Jørstad, Ann-Lisbeth Agnalt, and Eva Farestveit
Part VI Carcinus in the Wrong Place
The Evolutionary Ecology of European Green Crab,
Carcinus maenas, in North America
Timothy C. Edgell and Johan Hollander
More than One Way to Invade: Lessons from Genetic Studies
of Carcinus Shore Crabs
John A. Darling
Ecological Impacts of Replacing One Invasive Species
with Another in Rocky Intertidal Areas
Blaine D. Griffen
Index
In The Wrong Place: Alien Marine Crustaceans - Distribution, Biology And Impacts provides a unique view into the remarkable story of how shrimps, crabs, and lobsters - and their many relatives - have been distributed around the world by human activity, and the profound implications of this global reorganization of biodiversity for marine conservation biology. Many crustaceans form the base of marine food chains, and are often prominent predators and competitors acting as ecological engineers in marine ecosystems. Commencing in the 1800s global commerce began to move hundreds - perhaps thousands - of species of marine crustaceans across oceans and between continents, both intentionally and unintentionally. This book tells the story of these invasions from Arctic waters to tropical shores, highlighting not only the importance and impact of all prominent crustacean invasions in the world's oceans, but also the commercial exploitation of invasive crabs and shrimps. Topics explored for the first time in one volume include the historical roots of man's impact on crustacean biogeography, the global dispersal of crabs, barnacle invasions, insights into the potential scale of tropical invasions, the history of the world's most widely cultured shrimp, the invasive history and management of red king crabs in Norway, Chinese mitten crabs in England, and American blue crabs in Europe, the evolutionary ecology of green crabs, and many other subjects as well, touching upon all ocean shores.