Two Invasive Mussels in the Genus Perna in the Gulf of Mexico

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dc.acquisition-srcGBEPen_US
dc.call-noQH 541.5 .E8 G32 T-5 c.1-3 GBAYen_US
dc.call-noREF QH 541.5 .E8 G32 T-5 c.1-4 GBAYen_US
dc.call-noARCHIVE QH 541.5 .E8 G32 T-5 c.1-3 GBAYen_US
dc.contract-noGBEP T-5en_US
dc.contributor.authorHicks, David W., Robert F. McMahon, and Debra A. Ingraoen_US
dc.contributor.otherProceedings: The State of the Bay Symposium V. January 31 - February 2, 2001en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-02-15T17:37:16Z
dc.date.available2010-02-15T17:37:16Z
dc.date.issued2001en_US
dc.degreeen_US
dc.descriptionpg. 159en_US
dc.description-otheren_US
dc.description.abstractThe bivalve genus, Perna (Bivalvia: Mytilacea), includes three extant species; P. perna (the brown mussel), P. viridis (the green mussel), and P. canaliculus (the green-lipped mussel) (Siddall 1980). The subtropical, marine, intertidal mussel, Perna perna, invaded Texas, Gulf of Mexico shores in 1990 and now ranges from Veracruz, Mexico, to Freeport, Texas (Hicks and Tunnel 1993, 1995). Records for P. perna include India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, the Red Sea, the east coast of Africa from central Mozambique to False Bay, South Africa, and the African west coast from Lucero Bay north into the Mediterranean where it extends from Gibraltar to the Gulf of Tunis (Berry 1978). It also occurs in South America on the Atlantic coasts of Brazil, Uruguay, Venezuela, and in the West Indies (Berry 1978). Some authors recognize two other species; P. pica from the Mediterranean and northern Africa and P. indicia from southern India. These latter species have been synonymies with P. perna (Siddall 1980, Vainly 1989). In 1999, P. porno's tropical, estuarine congener, Perna viridis, was discovered in Tampa Bay, Florida and currently ranges from Venice to St. Petersburg, Florida (Ingrao peers. obis.). Prior to invasion of the Gulf of Mexico, P. viridis was first discovered outside of its endemic Indo-Pacific range at Point Lisa's, Trinidad in 1990 (Agar et al. 1992), Venezuela's Gulf of Praia coast in 1992, where it is sympatric with P. perna (Signing de Bravo et al. 1998), and Kingston Harbour, Jamaica in 1998 (D. Buddo and T. Bowes, per. comm.). The endemic, Indo-Pacific distribution of P. viridis ranges from the Persian Gulf to the southwestern Pacific Ocean and from southern Japan to Papua, New Guinea (Cheung 1993). International shipping is the likely vector for introduction of both species into the Gulf of Mexico, either as adults byssally attached to ship hulls or larvae in ballast seawater. Mitochondrial DNA sequence analyses have indicated that no indigenous Gulf of Mexico P. perna populations exhibited a clear genetic affinity with populations from Venezuela.en_US
dc.description.urien_US
dc.geo-codeBeaumonten_US
dc.geo-codeArlingtonen_US
dc.geo-codeTexasen_US
dc.geo-codeFloridaen_US
dc.geo-codeGulf of Mexicoen_US
dc.history10/25/04 easen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1969.3/26204
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dc.locationGBIC Circulating Collection; GBIC Reference Collection; GBIC Archive Collectionen_US
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dc.notesThe authors are representing the Center for Coastal Marine Studies at Lamar University, the Department of Biology at the University of Texas at Arlington, and the Center for Coastal and Tropical Ecology at Mote Marine Laboratoryen_US
dc.placeAustin, TXen_US
dc.publisherTexas Natural Resource Conservation Commissionen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries9111.00en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://gbic.tamug.edu/gbeppubs/T5/gbnep-T5.htmlen_US
dc.scaleen_US
dc.seriesen_US
dc.titleTwo Invasive Mussels in the Genus Perna in the Gulf of Mexicoen_US
dc.typeChapteren_US
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dc.vol-issueT-5en_US

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