Monocorophium acherusicum
Creators
- 1. * & Marine Services, Harbour Authority Building, Scapa, Orkney, KW 15 1 SD, United Kingdom
- 2. APEM Ltd., Diamond Centre, Works Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG 6 1 LW, United Kingdom
Description
(19) Monocorophium acherusicum (Costa, 1853)
Status in U.K. – cryptogenic.
Monocorophium acherusicum has been widely recorded from the monitoring programme at several marina and pier sites, each year since 2014, from settlement panel and occasionally scrape samples.
Chapman (2000) stated that M. acherusicum is perhaps the most widely distributed and widely introduced estuarine invertebrate in the world with a potential native range in the north-west Atlantic and introduced in all other locations, including the north-east Atlantic. However, Marchini and Cardeccia (2017) were of the opinion that, although potentially native to the North Atlantic, the true origins of M. acherusicum may never be known since it is now so widespread. Here we regard it as cryptogenic in the U.K.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Corophiidae
- Genus
- Monocorophium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Amphipoda
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- acherusicum
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- Chapman JW (2000) Chapter 9 C 4. Focal Taxonomic Collections: Peracaridan Crustaceans. In: Hines AH, Ruiz GM (eds), Biological Invasions of Cold-water Coastal Ecosystems: Ballast- Mediated Introductions in Port Valdez / Prince William Sound, Alaska Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, pp 9 C 4 1 - 47, http: // www. anstaskforce. gov / EcoSurveys / tech 0050 x. pdf
- Marchini A, Cardeccia A (2017) Alien amphipods in a sea of troubles: cryptogenic species, unresolved taxonomy and overlooked introductions. Marine Biology 164: 1 - 14, http: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 00227 - 017 - 3093 - 1