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Issue: Vol. 1908 No. 1: 17 Oct. 2008
Type: Article
Published: 2008-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1908.1.4
Page range: 51–56
Abstract views: 33
PDF downloaded: 1

New Zealand exports: Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909 (Isopoda: Sphaeromatidae), a Southern Hemisphere genus introduced to the Pacific coast of North America

Museum of Tropical Queensland and School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University, 70-102 Flinders Street, Townsville, 4810, Australia
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA
Crustacea California Isopoda Sphaeromatidae Pseudosphaeroma New Zealand

Abstract

Collections made along the coast of California have revealed the presence of a species of Pseudosphaeroma Chilton, 1909, a genus common in New Zealand coastal waters. The genus is entirely Southern Hemisphere in distribution, and this record reports the introduction of a species of Pseudosphaeroma into the San Francisco and Central Coast region of California, the first reported occurrence of the genus as an invasive taxon, and the first record of the genus from the Northern Hemisphere. The genus is also recorded for the first time from the Galapagos and Argentina.

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