First record and establishment of Branchiomma coheni (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in the Atlantic Ocean and review of non – indigenous species of the genus
Author
Keppel, Erica
Author
Tovar, Maria Ana
Author
Ruiz, Gregory
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Zootaxa
2015
4058
4
499
518
journal article
39241
10.11646/zootaxa.4058.4.3
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1175-5326
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Branchiomma luctuosum
(
Grube, 1870
)
Branchiomma luctuosum
was described from the Red Sea and reported as introduced for the first time in the Lucrino Lake (Naples, Tyrrhenian Sea,
Italy
) by
Bianchi (1983)
. Since this first finding, many records of this species have been reported in the western and central Mediterranean basins (
Sordino &
Gambi
1992
;
Licciano
et al.
2002
; Mastrototaro
et al.
2004;
El Haddad
et al.
2008
; Licciano & Giangrande 2008;
Giangrande
et al.
2012
), as well as in the eastern Mediterranean (
Knight-Jones
et al.
1991
,
Arvanitidis 2000
;
Simboura & Nicolaidou 2001
;
Çinar 2005
;
Çinar
et al.
2006
). It was included in the 100 ‘Worst Invasives alien marine species in the Mediterranean’ (
Streftaris & Zenetos 2006
). Moreover, this species was reported colonizing the Brazilian coast (
Nogueira
et al.
2006
;
Costa-Paiva
et al.
2007
).
In the Red Sea, this species has been found mainly in the more sheltered areas of coral reefs (
Grube 1870
). In the Aegean Sea it has been found associated with sponges (
Arvanitidis 2000
), while its presence in Italian waters has mostly been recorded in lagoon environments (
Sordino &
Gambi
1992
;
Knight-Jones
et al.
1991
) or sheltered marine areas (
Sordino &
Gambi
1992
;
Licciano
et al
. 2002
; Matarrese
et al.
2004). In Valencia Port,
El Haddad
et al
. (2008)
found specimens of
B. luctuosum
mostly on rocky substrates, grouped in small aggregates of specimens or more rarely isolated. Specimens were present in practically all orientations of the substrate, but especially on the vertical surfaces of the docks where densities reached 320–370 ind./m2. In Lake Faro, it was found in a maximum density of 19 ind./m2 (
Giangrande
et al.
2012
). In
Brasil
, it was found on rocky shores where it was the dominant sabellid sharing the space with
B. patriota
Nogueira, Rossi & López, 2006
and
Parasabella microphtalma
(
Nogueira
et al.
2006
)
.