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A new coral species introduced into the Atlantic Ocean - Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg 1834) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): An invasive threat?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Sammarco, Paul W. Porter, Scott A. Cairns, Stephen D. |
| Copyright Year | 2010 |
| Abstract | Over the past 60-70 years, the invasive Indo-Pacific coral Tubastraea coccinea (Lesson 1830; Cnidaria, Scleractinia) has colonized the western tropical Atlantic Ocean - the Americas, the Antilles, northern Gulf of Mexico (GOM), and many of its 3,600 oil/gas platforms. It is now the single, most abundant coral on artificial substrata in the GOM, with hundreds of thousands of colonies on a single platform. Here, we report for the first time the observation of a closely related congener in the western Atlantic – the Indo-Pacific azooxanthellate Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg 1834) – and suggest that it may pose a threat similar to T. coccinea. A total of 83 platforms, including deep-water, toppled, Rigs-to-Reefs structures, were surveyed in the northern Gulf of Mexico between 2000 and 2009, from Matagorda Island, Texas to Mobile, Alabama, USA, between the depths of 7 and 37 m, by SCUBA divers. Five platforms were surveyed by Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) to depths of up to 117 m. T. micranthus was found on only one platform – Grand Isle 93 (GI-93), off Port Fourchon, Louisiana, near the Mississippi River mouth, at the cross-roads of two major safety fairways/shipping lanes transited by large international commercial ships. The |
| Starting Page | 131 |
| Ending Page | 140 |
| Page Count | 10 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3391/ai.2010.5.2.02 |
| Volume Number | 5 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2010/AI_2010_5_2_Sammarco_etal.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/10288/iz_2010_Invasive.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2010.5.2.02 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
