Stomatopod Crustacea From The Island Of Crete <B>Stomatopod Crustacea From The Island Of Crete</B><P> <B>C. DOUNAS</B><I><BR> Institute of Marine Biology of Crete, Iraklion, Crete, Greece</I><B><P> C. STEUDEL</B><I><BR> Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, Frankfurt, Germany</I><B><P> Introduction</B><P> During several biological investigations along the continental shelf of the Island of Crete from 1988 to 1991, conducted with the R/V "Philia", an interesting collection of stomatopod Crustacea was obtained from soft substrates in depths ranging from 10 to 200 m. Bottom samples were taken with Smith-McIntyre grabs, Charcot-Picard dredges and Agassiz trawls. Additional specimens were caught with a bottom trawl with a 22-mm stretched mesh cod end. A total of more than 400 sampling stations was made in the area; those sampling sites where stomatopod specimens were recorded are shown in fig. 1.<P> Froglia & Manning (1989) in a check-list, enumerated the ten known Mediterranean stomatopod species. Lewinsohn & Manning (1980) in a thorough study registered all the known information on the stomatopod fauna of the Eastern Mediterranean and recorded 5 species from Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus and the south-east coast of Turkey. These species were: <I>Nannosquilloides occultus,</I> <I>Oratosquilla massavensis, Rissoides pallidus, Rissoides desmaresti and Squilla mantis. A</I> sixth species, <I>Pseudosquillopsis cerisii </I>(Roux, 1828), apart from a very old record from the south coast of Peloponese (Guerin, 1832), has not been reported from the eastern Mediterranean. During our research in Crete we found two more species <I>(Allosquilla africana, Parasquilla ferussaci) </I>which increases to 8 the number of the known species from the eastern basin.<I><BR> Crustaceana 66 (2) 1994</I><P>