Ficopomatus miamiensis ( Treadwell, 1934 )

Bastida-Zavala, J. Rolando, Buelna, Alondra Sofía Rodríguez, León-González, Jesús Angel De, Camacho-Cruz, Karla Andrea & Carmona, Isabel, 2016, New records of sabellids and serpulids (Polychaeta: Sabellidae, Serpulidae) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Zootaxa 4184 (3), pp. 401-457 : 410

Ficopomatus miamiensis ( Treadwell, 1934)

Sphaeropomatus miamiensis Treadwell, 1934: 339 –341, Figs 1–5 , fig. 9. Type locality: Miami River , Florida, USA.

Ficopomatus miamiensis .— ten Hove & Weerdenburg 1978: 106–109, Figs 1 f–i, 3c, 4h–i, q, v–w, ee–ii, xx, 5a–b (revision); Bastida-Zavala & ten Hove 2003: 92 (unknown locality, probably from Costa Rica or Panamá, on mangrove oysters, Ostrea iridiscens Hanley and O. columbiensis [Hanley]); Salgado-Barragán et al. 2004: 169 –171 (exotic in Urías Estuary, near to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, collected in 1999); Bastida-Zavala 2008: 19–21 (same, and Miraflores Spillway, Canal Zone, Panamá, collected in 1973); Tovar-Hernández et al. 2009b: 327 –328, Figs 3 g-i, 6a, 7a-c (fouling in Mazatlán, Sinaloa) ; Villalobos-Guerrero et al. 2012: 50 (same as Salgado-Barragán et al. 2004); Tovar-Hernández & Yáñez-Rivera 2012b: 193 –212, Figs 1–7 (risk analysis); Tovar-Hernández et al. 2012: 12–13 (exotic in shrimp culture pond from La Paz, Baja California Sur); Tovar-Hernández et al. 2014: 19 –21, Fig. 2 i (same).

Ficopomatus sp.— Hendrickx & Meda-Martínez 2001: 56 –57 (in shrimp culture ponds, Urías Estuary, Sinaloa).

Habitat. Intertidal to subtidal (3 m, Bastida-Zavala 2008). In tropical and subtropical brackish-waters lagoons; also in aquaculture shrimp ponds. On mangrove roots from Sinaloa, with salinity range of 27–46 ups and temperature range of 22–31.5°C ( Tovar-Hernández & Yáñez-Rivera 2012b). Fouling and invasive species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific ( Salgado-Barragán et al. 2004; Tovar-Hernández & Yáñez-Rivera 2012b).

Distribution. Native to the tropical Western Atlantic. Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea (ten Hove & Weerdenburg 1978). Ficopomatus miamiensis is exotic in the Pacific side of Panamá and Gulf of California.

Remarks. Ficopomatus miamiensis not was found in this study, but see Overview of the sabellid and serpulid introductions, below.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Study area. The Tropical Eastern Pacific, Southern California and Hawaii, with main geographical names mentioned in text.

FIGURE 2. Distribution of the sabellids Branchiomma bairdi, Megalomma carunculata, Parasabella pallida and Pseudobranchiomma punctata in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, Southern California and Hawaii.

FIGURE 3. Distribution of Ficopomatus uschakovi, Crucigera websteri, Hydroides cf. amri, H. brachyacantha and H. crucigera.

FIGURE 4. Distribution of Hydroides deleoni, H. dirampha, H. elegans and H. gairacensis..

FIGURE 5. Distribution of Hydroides glandifera, H. humilis, H. inermis and H. ochotereana