“…Some common aspects include movement outside their native range by humans; high capacity to tolerate variable environmental conditions; the ability to distribute and colonize diverse environments, great reproductive potential, and generalist habits. This life history added to the above description, gave the tiger shrimp an articulated scenario of favorable conditions to guarantee its success as an invasive species in the western [ 22 , 67 ] and eastern [ 24 ], coasts of the Atlantic Ocean, and recently in its colonization process of the Mediterranean Sea [ 33 , 75 ]. Evidence of this are the abundances reported in recent years in different areas of the western Atlantic, the capture of specimens of different sizes (juveniles and adults) and even ovigerous females [ 25 , 31 , 32 , 34 , 80 ].…”