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Dosima fascicularis (Cirripedia: Lepadidae) in Uruguayan waters: the southernmost western Atlantic presence of the ‘blue goose barnacle’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2014

Silvana González ,
Fabrizio Scarabino ,
Leonardo Ortega ,
Ana Martínez ,
Graciela Fabiano ,
Martin Abreu ,
Philip Miller ,
Alfredo Le Bas ,
Rosario González de Baccino  and
Mario Demicheli
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Silvana González*
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Constituyente 1497, C.P. 11200, Montevideo, Uruguay Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, C.C. 399, C.P. 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay InvBiota, Montevideo, Uruguay
Fabrizio Scarabino
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Constituyente 1497, C.P. 11200, Montevideo, Uruguay Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, C.C. 399, C.P. 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay InvBiota, Montevideo, Uruguay
Leonardo Ortega
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Constituyente 1497, C.P. 11200, Montevideo, Uruguay
Ana Martínez
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Constituyente 1497, C.P. 11200, Montevideo, Uruguay
Graciela Fabiano
Affiliation:
Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Constituyente 1497, C.P. 11200, Montevideo, Uruguay
Martin Abreu
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación y Conservación Marina, Montevideo, Uruguay
Philip Miller
Affiliation:
Centro de Investigación y Conservación Marina, Montevideo, Uruguay
Alfredo Le Bas
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, C.C. 399, C.P. 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay Sección Fisiología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, C.P. 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay
Rosario González de Baccino
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, C.C. 399, C.P. 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay
Mario Demicheli
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, C.C. 399, C.P. 11000, Montevideo, Uruguay
Fábio B. Pitombo
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: S. González, Constituyente 1497 CP 11200 PO Box 1612, Montevideo, Uruguay email: silgonz@gmail.com
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Abstract

The stalked barnacle Dosima fascicularis is reported from Uruguayan waters for the first time based on stranded specimens. It is suggested that the Subtropical Front is the main area of occurrence of D. fascicularis in the South Atlantic and its occurrence on the Uruguayan coast was found to be sporadic and mainly related to singular atmospheric and oceanographic factors that cast ‘blue plankton’ ashore (e.g. easterly and south-easterly winds, and prevalence of tropical waters).

Keywords

LepadidaepleustonUruguayan coastfirst recordstrandingblue planktonSubtropical ConvergenceSouth Atlantic
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Marine Biodiversity Records , Volume 7 , 2014 , e99
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2014 

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