The presence of A.franciscana in the Ebro Delta saltern (Alfaques Bay, Tarragona) () ,
as well as in the French saltern in Sete
and Aigues Mortes (Languedoc-Roussillon) (Thiery & Robert, 1992; Amat et al., 2005)
could support the suspected role
of water birds as disperse of A.franciscana through their West Mediterranean flyway,