Species Regional Summary
Ophiactis savignyi Lineage B
Panama Caribbean Coast ( PAN_CAR )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record? Panama/Caribbean Sea (both Lineages B-introduced, and A-cryptogenic, Roy and Sponer 2002)

1st Records (Lineage Unknown): Dragon's Mouths/Trinidad/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM E 10343, United States Museum of Natural History 2008); Curacao/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM E 15437, United States Museum of Natural History 2008)

Geographic Extent

Panama/Caribbean Sea (both Lineages B, introduced, and A, cryptogenic. Roy and Sponer 2002); Dragon's Mouths/Trinidad/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM E 10343, United States Museum of Natural History 2008); Curacao/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM E 15437, United States Museum of Natural History 2008); Margarita Island, Playa Caribe, Rocky Reef Jutting Out From Sandy Beach/Venezuela/Caribbean Sea (1967, USNM E 26897, United States Museum of Natural History 2008)

Vectors

Level Vector

Regional Impacts

References

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