Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Caribbean) Tidal Record: 1971

Panama Invasion History:

Invasion history elsewhere in the world:

None

Description

None

Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Arthropoda
Subphylum:   Crustacea
Class:   Malacostraca
Subclass:   Eumalacostraca
Superorder:   Eucarida
Order:   Decapoda
Suborder:   Pleocyemata
Infraorder:   Anomura
Superfamily:   Hippoidea
Family:   Albuneidae
Genus:   Albunea
Species:   catherinae

Synonyms

Potentially Misidentified Species

Ecology

Habitats

General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
General HabitatGrass BedNone
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEndobenthicNone

Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Length (mm)4Faulkes 2016
Maximum Length (mm)18Faulkes 2016
Broad Temperature RangeNoneWarm Temperate-Tropical
Broad Salinity RangeNonePolyhaline-Euhaline

General Impacts

Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status Vectors
PAN_CAR Panama Caribbean Coast 1971 Non-native Established

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Boyko, Christopher B. (2010) New records and taxonomic data for 14 species of sand crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Albuneidae) from localities worldwide, Zootaxa 2555: 49-61

Enrique-Navarro, Angélica; Laura Prieto (2020) First record of Phyllorhiza punctata(Cnidaria: Rhizostomae: Mastigiidae) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, Cahiers de Biologie Marine 61: 349-353

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



Williams, Austin B. (1984) Shrimps, Lobsters, and Crabs of the Atlantic Coast of the Eastern United States, Maine to Florida, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. Pp. <missing location>