The western Pacific red lionfish, Pterois volitans (Scorpaenidae), in Florida: Evidence for reproduction and parasitism in the first exotic marine fish established in state waters

By R. Ruiz-Carus, R. E. Matheson, D. E. Roberts, Paula E. Whitfield. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Paleontology

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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, unknown): “Assessments of these populations have been reported by Whitfield et al. (2002, 2007), Meister et al. (2005) and Ruiz-Carus et al. (2006).”
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): “the wild outside their native range, and has been identiWed as the source of the invasion of lionWsh in the western Atlantic (WhitWeld et al. 2002; Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006).”
Abundance estimates of the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans/miles complex in the Western North Atlantic (2006, background): “…distribution may be continuous from Miami, Florida north to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (26 N–35 N), in water depths of 30–100 m, including Bermuda (personal communication, Judi Clee, Sarah Manuel), (Whitfield et al. 2002; Hare and Whitfield 2003; Semmens et al. 2004; Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006).”
Reconstructing the lionfish invasion: insights into Greater Caribbean biogeography (2011, background): “They were detected and subsequently became established in the Bahamas between 2004 and 2006, and have been spreading rapidly into the Caribbean Sea since 2007 (Ruiz-Carus et al., 2006; Whitfield et al., 2007; Schofield, 2009).”
Mitochondrial cytochrome b analysis reveals two invasive lionfish species with strong founder effects in the western Atlantic (2007, background): “Florida may be the initial site of the lionfish introduction, where pelagic egg masses and early larval forms were carried north by currents (Whitfield et al., 2002; Hare & Whitfield, 2003; Ruiz-Carus et al., 2006).”
Predation rates of Indo-Pacific lionfish on Bahamian coral reefs (2010, background): “The sources of introduction are likely to be accidental releases from aquaria (Semmens et al. 2004), probably in Florida, which is the location of the first records in US waters (Whitfield et al. 2002, Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006).”
Worst case scenario: potential long-term effects of invasive predatory lionfish (Pterois volitans) on Atlantic and Caribbean coral-reef communities (2011, background): “The most likely vectors for the introduction were releases or escapes from marine aquaria (Hare and Whitfield 2003; Semmens et al. 2004; Ruiz-Carus et al. 2006).”
Distributions of Indo-Pacific lionfishes Pterois spp. in their native ranges : implications for the Atlantic invasion (2012, background): “…focused on invasive lionfish distribution and abundance (Whitfield et al. 2002, 2007, Schofield 2009, 2010, 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.…”