Invasion History

First Non-native Panama (Pacific) Tidal Record: 1939

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:   Perciformes
Suborder:   Labroidei
Family:   Cichlidae
Genus:   Vieja
Species:   maculicauda

Synonyms

Cichlosoma maculicauda (Regan, 1905)
Theraps maculicauda (Regan, 1969)
Vieja panamensis (Fernández-Yépez, 1969)
Vieja maculicauda (Kullander, 2003)
Cichlasoma nigritum (Meek, 1907)
Paraneetroplus maculicauda (McMahan et al., 2010)
Herichthys maculicauda (None, None)

Potentially Misidentified Species

Vieja tuyrensis
Pacific slope relative of Vieja maculicauda (McMahan et al. 2010)

Ecology

General:

Vieja maculicauda (Black-Belt Cichlid) is a predominantly freshwater cichlid fish, native to Caribbean streams and rivers, but is common in brackish estuaries (Robertson and van Tassel 2015; Froese and Pauly 2017). It was common in the Miraflores Third Lock Lake (6-14 PSU) (McCosker and Dawson 1975).

Food:

Plant seeds, fuits, leaves,detritus, invertebrates

Trophic Status:

Omnivore

Omni

Habitats

General HabitatFresh (nontidal) MarshNone
General HabitatGrass BedNone
General HabitatSwampNone
General HabitatNontidal FreshwaterNone
General HabitatTidal Fresh MarshNone
General HabitatSalt-brackish marshNone
General HabitatUnstructured BottomNone
General HabitatCanalsNone
General HabitatCoarse Woody DebrisNone
General HabitatMangrovesNone
Salinity RangeLimnetic0-0.5 PSU
Salinity RangeOligohaline0.5-5 PSU
Salinity RangeMesohaline5-18 PSU
Salinity RangePolyhaline18-30 PSU
Tidal RangeSubtidalNone
Vertical HabitatNektonicNone

Tolerances and Life History Parameters

Maximum Temperature (ºC)28Field (Froese and Pauly 2017)
Minimum Salinity (‰)0A predominantly freshwater species
Maximum Length (mm)300Robertson and van Tassel 2016
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 1939 Non-native Established

Occurrence Map

OCC_ID Author Year Date Locality Status Latitude Longitude

References

Aviz, D.; Pinto, A. J. P.;; Merreira, . A.P. F.; Rocha, R. M..; Rosa Filho, J. S. (2018) Reproductive biology of Sabellaria wilsoni (Sabellariidae: Polychaeta), an important ecosystem eng, Marine Biodiversity Records 98(4): 743–754.

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

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>