Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1937

Panama Invasion History:


Invasion history elsewhere in the world:

None


Description

None


Taxonomy

Taxonomic Tree

Kingdom:   Animalia
Phylum:   Chordata
Subphylum:   Vertebrata
Superclass:   Osteichthyes
Class:   Actinopterygii
Subclass:   Neopterygii
Infraclass:   Teleostei
Superorder:   Acanthopterygii
Order:   Atheriniformes
Suborder:   Atherinoidei
Family:   Atherinidae
Genus:   Atherinella
Species:   chagresi

Synonyms

Menidia chagresi (Meek & Hildebrand, 1914)
Melaniris chagresi (None, None)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Atherinella spp.
8 Caribbean species; 11 Pacific species

Ecology

General:

Athereiella chagresi. It is a resident of freshwater streams and rivers, and brackish estuaries. Its precise salinity and temperature tolerances are unknown (Nordlie 2012; Robertson and Allen 2015).

Food:

Zooplankton

Consumers:

Piscivorous fishes

Trophic Status:

Carnivore

Carn

Habitats

General HabitatFresh (nontidal) MarshNone
General HabitatGrass BedNone
General HabitatNontidal FreshwaterNone
General HabitatTidal Fresh MarshNone
General HabitatSalt-brackish marshNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
Salinity RangeLimnetic0-0.5 PSU
Salinity RangeOligohaline0.5-5 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatNektonicNone


Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Maximum Temperature (ºC)26Field, Froese and Pauly 2017
Minimum Salinity (‰)0Froese and Pauly 2017
Maximum Length (mm)115Robertson and van Tassel 2015
Broad Temperature RangeNoneTropical
Broad Salinity RangeNoneFresh-Brackish

General Impacts


Regional Distribution Map

Bioregion Region Name Year Invasion Status Population Status
PAN_PAC Panama Pacific Coast 1937 Def Estab

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1998 Ichthyological Collection Catalog. <missing URL>



Brunetti, Riccardo; Griggio, Francesca; Mastrototaro, Francesco; 3, F Gasparini, Fabio; Gissi, Carmela (2020) Toward a resolution of the cosmopolitan Botryllus schlosseri species complex (Ascidiacea, Styelidae):, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 190: 1175-1192

Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (Editors). 2002-2024 FishBase.(World Wide Web electronic publication).. <missing URL>



Hildebrand, Samuel F. (1939) The Panama Canal as a passageway for fishes, with lists and remarks on the fishes and invertebrates observed, Zoologica (New york Zoological Society) 24: 15-45

McCosker, J.E., Dawson, C.E. (1975) Biotic passage through the Panama Canal, with particular reference to fishes, Marine Biology 30: 343-351

Pansera, Marco;; Camatti, Elisa; Schroeder, Anna; Zagami, Giacomo;; Bergamasco, Alessandro (2021) The non?indigenous Oithona davisae in a Mediterranean transitional environment: coexistence patterns with competing species, Scientific Reports 11(8341): Published online

Pestana, Lueji Barros; Dias, Gustavo Muniz; Marquesa, Antonio Carlos (2017) A century of introductions by coastal sessile marine invertebrates in Angola, South East Atlantic Ocean, Marine Pollution Bulletin 125: 426-a432

U.S. National Museum of Natural History 1996-2014 NMNH Fish Collection Database.. <missing URL>