Schmiing, MaraAfonso, Pedro2010-03-122010-03-122009"ARQUIPÉLAGO. Ciências Biológicas e Marinhas". ISSN 0873-4704. Nº 26 (2009): 37-430873-4704http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/447Moulting, growth and retention of externally attached acoustic tags were studied in ten Mediterranean slipper lobsters, Scyllarides latus (Latreille, 1802). Animals were kept in a cage at 20 m depth in Faial Island, Azores, over a period of nine months. No negative effects of tag attachment on moult or behaviour were detected, but a negative effect on growth cannot be excluded. Moulting was correlated with ambient water temperature and resulted in an increase of approximately 7% in mean size and 17% in mean weight. The results demonstrate that the use of externally attached acoustic transmitters in this species is adequate for medium-term movement studies but not for longer-term annual studies, due to the rate of molting.engScyllarides latus (Latreille, 1802)ComportamentoTelemetria AcústicaAçoresBehaviourAcoustic TelemetryAzoresjournal article