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First record of the red lionfish, Pterois volitans, on the coast of Tabasco, Mexico
Primer reporte del pez león, Pterois volitans, en la costa de Tabasco, México
Armando T. Wakida-Kusunoki1 , Luis Enrique Amador del Ángel2
1 Instituto Nacional de Pesca, Centro Regional de Investigación Acuícola y Pesquera de Yucalpetén. Boulevard del Pescador s/n, esq. Antigua Carr. a Chelem Yucalpetén, 97320. Yucatán. México.
2 Universidad Autónoma del Carmen. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales, Centro de Investigación de Ciencias Ambientales (CICA). Av. Laguna de Términos s/n, Col. Renovación 2da Sección, Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, 24155. México.
Abstract
Two specimens of lionfish Pterois volitans were found for the first time on the south coast of Tabasco in southeastern Mexico. This was the fifth time that this fish has been located on the Mexican coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The presence of lionfish on the Tabasco coast of Mexico is discussed.
Key words: Invasive species; lionfish; Southeastern Mexico; Tabasco
Resumen
Dos ejemplares de pez león Pterois volitans se encontraron por primera vez en la costa sur de Tabasco en el sureste de México. Estos representan el quinto reporte de este pez en la costa mexicana del Golfo de México. La aparición de pez león en la costa de Tabasco de México se comenta y discute.
Palabras-clave: Especie invasiva; pez León; sureste de México; Tabasco
The lionfish Pterois volitans (Linnaeus, 1758) is a native of the coral reef and coastal waters of the western Pacific from southern Japan to Micronesia, Australia, and the Philippines (Schultz, 1986). This species has been reported from the West Atlantic to the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico (Schofield, 2009).The invasion is assumed to have occurred through accidental or intentional release from aquaria (Whitfield et al., 2002).
The first Gulf of Mexico (GoM) report was from Florida in 2006 (Brown & Ruíz-Carus, 2006); subsequently, the species has been recorded in different areas of the Campeche Bank in the southern GoM (Alacranes Reef and Arenas Key) (Aguilar-Perera & Tuz-Sulub, 2010) and southwestern GoM (Anegada de Adentro, Veracruzano Reef System National Park and Tuxpan Coral Reef) off the state of Veracruz (Santander-Monsalvo et al., 2012). In this paper we document the presence of P. volitans in coastal waters of southern Tabasco.
Two specimens of...