First record of Celleporaria brunnea (Bryozoa: Lepraliellidae) in Portugal and in the East Atlantic
- Autor(en)
- Joao Canning-Clode, Javier Souto-Derungs, Linda McCann
- Abstrakt
Bryozoans are common fouling species present on ships and artificial substrates. A number of projects reporting the presence of bryozoans in Portugal have been carried out in recent years. As part of a field survey to examine and quantify the nonindigenous marine fouling species in several marinas in Portugal, we detected the bryozoan Celleporaria brunnea for the first time. The native range of C. brunnea seems to extend from British Columbia to the Galapagos, Ecuador. Our discovery indicates that this is the first record of C. brunnea across the East Atlantic and the first record of a species in this genus in the north-eastern Atlantic. The fouling nature of Celleporaria brunnea may have facilitated its spread to the western Pacific, the Mediterranean and now the eastern Atlantic from the Americas.
- Organisation(en)
- Institut für Paläontologie
- Externe Organisation(en)
- University of the Azores (UAc), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Universidade de Lisboa
- Journal
- Marine Biodiversity Records
- Seiten
- 1-5
- Anzahl der Seiten
- 6
- Publikationsdatum
- 2013
- Peer-reviewed
- Ja
- ÖFOS 2012
- 106003 Biodiversitätsforschung, 106053 Zoogeographie, 106054 Zoologie
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 14 – Leben unter Wasser
- Link zum Portal
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0e43e22f-99d9-4ddb-a653-0e1148a4203d