Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1937

Panama Invasion History:


Invasion history elsewhere in the world:

None


Description

None


Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Chordata
Subphylum:   Vertebrata
Superclass:   Osteichthyes
Class:   Actinopterygii
Subclass:   Neopterygii
Infraclass:   Teleostei
Superorder:   Acanthopterygii
Order:   Perciformes
Suborder:   Gobioidei
Family:   Eleotridae
Genus:   Dormitator
Species:   maculatus

Synonyms

Sciaena maculata (Bloch, 1792)
Eleotris mugiloides (Valenciennes, 1837)
Eleotris grandisquama (Valenciennes, 1837)
Eleotris gundlachi (Poey, 1860)
Eleotris somnulentus (Girard, 1858)
Dormitator lineatus (Gill, 1863)
Dormitator lophocephalus (Hoedeman, 1951)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Dormitator latifrons
Dormitator latifrons (Pacific Fat Sleeper) is native to fresh and brackish waters from the Gulf of California to northern Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015).

Ecology

Trophic Status:

Omnivore

Omni

Habitats

General HabitatGrass BedNone
General HabitatMangrovesNone
General HabitatCanalsNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
General HabitatSalt-brackish marshNone
General HabitatTidal Fresh MarshNone
General HabitatNontidal FreshwaterNone
General HabitatSwampNone
General HabitatCoarse Woody DebrisNone
General HabitatFresh (nontidal) MarshNone
Salinity RangeLimnetic0-0.5 PSU
Salinity RangeOligohaline0.5-5 PSU
Salinity RangeMesohaline5-18 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone
Vertical HabitatNektonicNone


Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Temperature (ºC)17Field, Froese and Pauly 2017
Maximum Temperature (ºC)35Field, Froese and Pauly 2017
Minimum Salinity (‰)0Field, Froese and Pauly 2017
Maximum Salinity (‰)38.5Field, Froese and Pauly 2017
Minimum Length (mm)700Typical 510 mm males, 450 mm females,Froese and Pauly 2017
Broad Temperature RangeNoneWarm Temperate-Tropical
Broad Salinity RangeNoneLimnetic-Euhaline

General Impacts


Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status
PAN_PAC Panama Pacific Coast 1937 Def Estab

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Aviz, Daiane; Da Silva, Roseanne Figueira; Filho, José Souto (2018) Sabellaria wilsoni (Polychaeta: Sabellariidae): an ecosystem engineer and promoter of zoobenthos diversity in the Brazilian Amazon coast, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 99(5): 1099-1109
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315418001157

Brunetti, Riccardo; Griggio, Francesca; Mastrototaro, Francesco; 3, F Gasparini, Fabio; Gissi, Carmela (2020) Toward a resolution of the cosmopolitan Botryllus schlosseri species complex (Ascidiacea, Styelidae):, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190: 1175-1192

D’Hont, Anouk Gittenberger, Adriaan Hendriks, A. Jan Leuven, Rob S. E. W.;; Gittenberger, Adriaan; Hendriks, A. Jan; Leuven, Rob S. E. W… (2021) Dreissenids’ breaking loose: differential attachment as a possible driver of the dominance shift between two invasive mussel species, Biological Invasions 23(7): 2125 - 2141

Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (Editors). 2002-2024 FishBase.(World Wide Web electronic publication).. <missing URL>



Hildebrand, Samuel F. (1939) The Panama Canal as a passageway for fishes, with lists and remarks on the fishes and invertebrates observed, Zoologica (New york Zoological Society) 24: 15-45

Joyce, Patrick W. S.; Smyth, David M.; Dick . Jaimie T. A. ; Kregting, Louise T. (2021) Coexistence of the native mussel, Mytilus edulis, and the invasive Pacific oyster,Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, does not affect their growth or mortality, but reduces condition of both species, Hydrobiolgia 848: 1859-1871

Pestana, Lueji Barros; Dias, Gustavo Muniz; Marquesa, Antonio Carlos (2017) A century of introductions by coastal sessile marine invertebrates in Angola, South East Atlantic Ocean, Marine Pollution Bulletin 125: 426-a432

U.S. National Museum of Natural History 1996-2014 NMNH Fish Collection Database.. <missing URL>



U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/