Literature Caprella mutica

Ashton, G.V. 2006. Distribution and dispersal of the non-native caprellid amphipod, Caprella mutica Schurin 1935. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 180pp.

Ashton, G.V., Willis, K.J., Burrows, M.T. and Cook, E.J. 2007a. Environmental tolerance of Caprella mutica: Implications for its distribution as a marine non-native species. Marine Environmental Research 64: 305-312.

Ashton, G.V., Willis, K.J., Cook, E.J. and Burrows, M. 2007b. Distribution of the introduced amphipod, Caprella mutica Schuran, 1935 (Amphipoda: Caprellida: Caprellidae) on the west coast of Scotland and a review of its global distribution. Hydrobiologia 590: 31-41.

Ashton, G.V., Riedlecker, E.I. and Ruiz, G.M. 2008a. First non-native crustacean established in coastal waters of Alaska. Aquatic Biology 3: 133-137.

Ashton, G.V., Stevens, M.I., Hart, M.C., Green, D.H., Burrows, M.T., Cook, E.J. and Willis, K.J. 2008b. Mitochondrial DNA reveals multiple Northern Hemisphere introductions of Caprella mutica (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Molecular Ecology 17: 1293-1303.

Boos, K. 2009. Mechanisms of a successful immigration from north-east Asia: population dynamics, life history traits and interspecific interactions in the caprellid amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in European coastal waters. Dr. rer. nat. thesis, Freie Univertität, Berlin, 158pp.

Buschbaum, C. and Gutow, L. 2005. Mass occurrence of an introduced crustacean (Caprella cf. mutica) in the south-eastern North Sea. Helgoland Marine Research 59: 252-253.

Cook, E.J., Jahnke, M., Kerckhof, F., Minchin, D., Faasse, M., Boos, K. and Ashton, G. 2007a. European expansion of the introduced amphipod Caprella mutica Schurin 1935. Aquatic Invasions 2(4): 411-421.

Cook, E.J., Willis, K.J. and Lozano-Fernandez, M. 2007b. Survivorship, growth and reproduction of the non-native Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Hydrobiologia 590: 55-64.

Faasse, M. 2005. Notes on diagnostic characters and morphological variability of Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 in The Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae). Zeepaard 65(1): 22-28.

Guerra-Garcia, J.M. 2002. Re-descriptions of Caprella linearis (Linnaeus, 1767) and C. septentrionalis Kröyer, 1838 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidea) from Scotland, with an ontogenetic comparison between the species and a study of the clinging behaviour. Sarsia 87: 216-235.

Michel, K., Nauwelaerts, S., Stamhuis, E. and Boos, K. 2007. Is the Japanese skeleton shrimp Caprella mutica a filter feeder? I. Head morphology and kinematics. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 146(4) Supplement 1: S125 (Abstract A6.58).

Nakajima, K. and Takeuchi, I. 2008. Rearing method for Caprella mutica (Malacostraca: Amphipoda) in an exhibition tank in the port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, with notes on reproductive biology. Journal of Crustacean Biology 28(1): 171-174.

Nauwelaerts, S., Michel, K., Stamhuis, E. and Boos, K. 2007. Is the Japanese skeleton shrimp Caprella mutica a filter feeder? II. Mechanics. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Part A 146(4) Supplement 1: S126 (Abstract A6.63).

Platvoet, D., de Bruyne, R.H. and Gmelig Meyling, A.W. 1995. Description of a new Caprella-species from the Netherlands: Caprella macho nov. spec. (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Caprellidae). Bulletin Zoologisch Museum Universiteit van Amsterdam 15(1): 1-4.

Riedlecker, E.I., Ashton, G.V. and Ruiz, G.M. 2009. Geometric morphometric analysis discriminates native and non-native species of Caprellidae in western North America. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(3): 535-542.

Sano, M., Omori, M. and Taniguchi, K. 2003. Predator-prey systems of drifting seaweed communities off the Tohoku coast, northern Japan, as determined by feeding habit analysis of phytal animals. Fisheries Science 69(2): 260-268.

Shucksmith, R., Cook, E.J., Hughes, D.J. and Burrows, M.T. In press. Competition between the non-native amphipod Caprella mutica and two native species of caprellids Pseudoprotella phasma and Caprella linearis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (doi: 10.1017/S0025315409000435)

Willis, K.J., Cook, E.J., Lozano-Fernandez, M. and Takeuchi, I. 2004. First record of the alien caprellid amphipod, Caprella mutica, for the UK. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 84: 1027-1028.