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:   Arthropoda
Subphylum:   Crustacea
Class:   Malacostraca
Subclass:   Eumalacostraca
Superorder:   Eucarida
Order:   Decapoda
Suborder:   Pleocyemata
Infraorder:   Brachyura
Superfamily:   Xanthoidea
Family:   Panopeidae
Genus:   Panopeus
Species:   rugosus

Synonyms

Potentially Misidentified Species

Panopeus purpureus
Pacific species

Panopeus chilensis
Pacific species

Panopeus gatunensis
Atlantic species

Panopeus lacustris
Atlantic species

Panopeus mirafloresensis
Pacific species

Ecology


Habitats

General HabitatSwampNone
General HabitatTidal Fresh MarshNone
General HabitatSalt-brackish marshNone
General HabitatOyster ReefNone
General HabitatMangrovesNone
General HabitatCanalsNone
General HabitatCoral reefNone
General HabitatRockyNone
General HabitatCoarse Woody DebrisNone
Salinity RangeEuhaline30-40 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Salinity RangeMesohaline5-18 PSU
Salinity RangeOligohaline0.5-5 PSU
Salinity RangeLimnetic0-0.5 PSU
Tidal RangeMid IntertidalNone
Tidal RangeLow IntertidalNone
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatEpibenthicNone


Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Minimum Salinity (‰)0found in tidal freshwater, Bahia, Brazil (de Almeida et al. 2008)
Maximum Width (mm)57Rathbun 1930
Broad Temperature RangeNoneSubtropical-Tropical
Broad Salinity RangeNoneTidal Limnetic-Euhaline

General Impacts


Regional Distribution Map

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

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1986) An illustrated guide to the marine decapod crustaceans of Florida, State of Florida Department of Environmental Regulation Technical Series 8(1): 1-225

Abele, Lawrence G.; Kim, Won (1989) The decapod crustaceans of the Panama Canal, Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 482: 1-50

Bremec, Claudia S.; Giberto, Diego A. (2004) New records of two species of Sabellaria (Polychaeta: Sabellariidae) from the Argentinean Biogeographic Province, Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia 39(2): 101-105

de Almeida, Alexandre O.; Coelho, Petrônio A. (2008) Estuarine and marine brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda) from Bahia, Brazil: checklist and zoogeographical considerations, Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 36(2): 183-222

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

Rathbun, Mary J. (1930) The cancroid crabs of America of the families Euryalidae, Portunidae, Atelecyclidae, Cancridae, and Xanthidae, United States National Museum Bulletin 152: 1-609

U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. http://collections.nmnh.si.edu/search/iz/