Species Regional Summary
Styela plicata
None ( SEP-H )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Whorehouse Reef, Canal Zone/Panama/Panama Bay, Gulf of Panama (Pacfic Ocean) (4/5/1973, USNM 19744, US National Museum of Natural History 2007, 79.2500000 8.8333333, Panama Bay location, Biogeomancer). This specimen should be compared with the newly describec S. multicarpa (de Barros and da Rocja 2021)

Geographic Extent

Whorehouse Reef, Canal Zone/Panama/Panama Bay, Gulf of Panama (Pacfic Ocean) ((-79.2500000 8.8333333, Panama Bay location, Biogeomancer)(4/5/1973, USNM 19744, US National Museum of Natural History 2007)

Vectors

Level Vector
Probable Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

References

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