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First record of Lepas spp. (Cirripedia: Thoracica: Lepadiformes) attached to pumice from the Cordón-Caulle eruption along the central-South Chilean coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2013

Gonzalo Vázquez-Prada*
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Eduardo Jaramillo
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Gonzalo Morales
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
Ricardo Silva
Affiliation:
Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: G. Vázquez-Prada, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Ciencias Ambientales y Evolutivas, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile email: gvpcruz@hotmail.com
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Abstract

An early and massive settlement of Lepas australis and Lepas pectinata attached to pumice from a recent volcanic eruption is described for the first time. The last 2010 earthquake of central Chile generated stress changes on the magma pathway and this reaction induced the Cordón-Caulle Volcanic Complex eruption on 4 June 2011. Only four months later, a great amount of pumice showing a massive settlement of goose barnacles (Lepas spp.) was drift-carried to the Chilean coast. Our results suggest that the larval attachment structures of Lepas australis and L. pectinata have a high capacity for adhering to the pumice surface, using it as an important dispersion vector.

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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2013 

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