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First record of Celleporaria brunnea (Bryozoa: Lepraliellidae) in Portugal and in the East Atlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2013

João Canning-Clode*
Affiliation:
Centre of IMAR of the University of the Azores, Department of Oceanography and Fisheries/UAz & LARSyS Associated Laboratory, Rua Prof. Dr Frederico Machado, 4, PT-9901-862 Horta, Azores, Portugal Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA Center of Oceanography, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, Campo Grande, Lisbon, Portugal
Javier Souto
Affiliation:
Institut für Paläontologie, Geozentrum, Universität Wien, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090, Wien, Austria
Linda McCann
Affiliation:
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, 647 Contees Wharf Road, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: J. Canning Clode, IMAR—Institute of Marine Research, Museu Municipal do Funchal, Marine Biology Station of Funchal, Cais do Carvão, 9000-107 Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal email: canning-clode@uac.pt
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Abstract

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 non-indigenous 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.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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