Mitochondrial cytochrome b analysis reveals two invasive lionfish species with strong founder effects in the western Atlantic

By R. M. Hamner, D. W. Freshwater, Paula E. Whitfield. 2007

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology

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Mitochondrial control region sequence analyses indicate dispersal from the US East Coast as the source of the invasive Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans in the Bahamas (2009, background): “Hamner et al. (2007) found that 7% of the US east coast specimens collected during 2004 and 2005 were P. miles.”
Predatory fish invaders: Insights from Indo-Pacific lionfish in the western Atlantic and Caribbean (2013, background): “Ocean currents are the likely transport mechanism of lionfish eggs and larvae (Hare and Whitfield, 2003).”
Mangrove use by the invasive lionfish Pterois volitans (2010, background): “Two species of invasive Indopacific lionfish, Pterois volitans and P. miles, invaded Western Atlantic waters in the 1990s and have established populations ranging from North Carolina to the Caribbean (Whitfield et al. 2002, Hamner et al. 2007).”
Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography (2011, methodology): “Furthermore, while previous genetic studies showed the presence of the two species in the WA (Hamner et al., 2007; Freshwater et al., 2009b), their limited geographical sampling (BS and NC locations only) prevents us from distributional extrapolations at the current stage of the invasion.”
Biology and Ecology of the Invasive Lionfishes, Pterois miles and Pterois volitans (2008, background): “Recent efforts by Hamner et al. (2007) have confirmed that: i) Both P. miles and P. volitans were introduced along the U.S. East Coast, ii) P. volitans comprises approximately 93% of the population, and iii) A strong founder effect (i.e. low genetic diversity) is evident among Atlantic specimens.”
Site fidelity and movement patterns of invasive lionfish, Pterois spp., in a Florida estuary (2012, background): “The Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans and Pterois miles (morphologically indistinguishable species, hereafter referred to as lionfish) have spread rapidly throughout the western Atlantic and Caribbean (Freshwater et al., 2009; Hamner et al., 2007; Schofield, 2009; Whitfield et al., 2002).”
Distributions of Indo-Pacific lionfishes Pterois spp. in their native ranges : implications for the Atlantic invasion (2012, background): “…Darling et al. 2011), reproduction (Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006, Morris et al. 2011), larval duration (Ahrenholz & Morris 2010), population genetics (Hamner et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009), food habits (Albins & Hixon 2008, Morris & Akins 2009, Côté & Maljković 2010, Muñoz et al. 2011), and…”
Recent invasion of a Florida (USA) estuarine system by lionfish Pterois volitans / P. miles. (2011, background): “The spread of invasive lionfish in the western Atlantic and Carib bean has been well documented (Whitfield et al. 2002, Hamner et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009, Schofield 2009), with the invasion considered 1 of the top 15 emerging environmental issues at a global scale (Suther land et ©…”
Predation rates of Indo-Pacific lionfish on Bahamian coral reefs (2010, background): “Since 2000, lionfish (mostly Pterois volitans; Hamner et al. 2007, Freshwater et al. 2009) have spread rapidly, first northward along the southeast coast of the USA and then eastward and southward into the Caribbean.”
Geographic extent and chronology of the invasion of non-native lionfish (Pterois volitans (Linnaeus 1758) and P. miles (Bennett 1828)) in the Western North Atlantic and Caribbean Sea (2009, background): “While both P. miles and P. volitans occur off the US Atlantic coast (Hamner et al. 2007; Morris and Freshwater 2008); thus far only P. volitans has been recovered from Bahamian waters (Freshwater et al. 2009a).”
Feeding ecology of invasive lionfish (Pterois volitans) in the Bahamian archipelago (2009, background): “The lionfishes, Pterois miles and P. volitans, (Hamner et al. 2007; Morris 2009) are the first non-native marine fishes to become established along the Atlantic coast of the U.S. and the Caribbean.”
The Presence of the invasive Lionfish Pterois miles in the Mediterranean Sea (2013, background): “sidered two separate species only recently (Schultz, 1986; Hamner et al., 2007).”