Multiple lionfish (Pterois spp.) new occurrences along the Brazilian coast confirm the invasion pathway into the Southwestern Atlantic

Osmar J. Luiz; Wagner C.R. dos Santos; Alexandre P. Marceniuk; Luiz A. Rocha; Sergio R. Floeter; Clara E. Buck; Alex G.C.M. de Klautau; Carlos E.L. Ferreira

doi:10.1007/s10530-021-02575-8

Multiple lionfish (Pterois spp.) new occurrences along the Brazilian coast confirm the invasion pathway into the Southwestern Atlantic

Osmar J. Luiz, Wagner C.R. dos Santos, Alexandre P. Marceniuk, Luiz A. Rocha, Sergio R. Floeter, Clara E. Buck, Alex G.C.M. de Klautau, Carlos E.L. Ferreira

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The invasion of the northwestern Atlantic by the Indo-Pacific lionfish has developed extraordinarily fast. In less than 30 years, lionfish have dramatically expanded their distribution range to an area encompassing the eastern coast of the USA, Bermuda, the entire Caribbean region and the Gulf of Mexico. Until now, just a single sighting had been reported in the South Atlantic and it was questionable whether lionfish would invade this region like it has in the northwestern Atlantic. Here we report four new records of lionfish for the Brazilian coast, in the southwestern Atlantic. Two individuals were captured in mesophotic reefs underneath the Amazon river plume, one in an oceanic archipelago distant 350 km from Brazil’s tropical continental coast, and the fourth in the subtropical coast. The records in the Amazon and in the oceanic regions support previous inferences of lionfish invasion routes into the south Atlantic. The subtropical record, despite being considered too far away for a single larval dispersal event from the Caribbean, is recurrent and could be a result of aquarium releases.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3013-3019
Number of pages	7
Journal	Biological Invasions
Volume	23
Issue number	10
Early online date	3 Jun 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-021-02575-8
Publication status	Published - Oct 2021

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Funding Information:
Financial support for continuous monitoring of the Brazilian oceanic islands is provided by “Programa de Monitoramento de Longa Duração das Comunidades Recifais de Ilhas Oceânicas – PELD ILOC” (CNPq 441241/2016-6, CELF-PI). Fish landing monitoring in the North Brazilian coast is supported by Projeto Áreas Marinhas e Costeiras Protegidas—GEF Mar of the Federal Government (AGCMK) and the Programa de Capacitação Institucional (MCTIC/CNPq, 444338/2018–7 and 300675/2019–4; APM). We thank the logistic support of ICMBio of Fernando de Noronha, Queiroz Divers and Sea Paradise Divers staff and G Pesca for the photographic record of the specimen observed in the Amapá. CELF and SRF thank their productivity grants from CNPq-PQ.

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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

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