Table 3.

Number of individuals sampled for each species (N total) during settlement and recruitment phases

	Settlement			Recruitment	N total
	early	middle	late	Adult
D. annularis	34	35	37	21	127
D. puntazzo	16	15	17	18	66
D. sargus	26	27	29	38	120
D. vulgaris	18	18	19	22	77

Within settlement phase, juveniles were subdivided in three ontogenetic stages, early, middle and late, on the basis of the centroid size