TY  - JOUR
AB  - The Peruvian jingle shell, Anomia peruviana d’Orbigny, 1846 is native to the Eastern Pacific including Panama. During recent surveys of
Panama’s marine fauna using settlement plates, we discovered A. peruviana in Limon Bay, near the Atlantic entrance of the Panama Canal.
We confirmed our initial morphological identifications using partial sequences of the COI barcode locus. All Anomia individuals collected
on the settlement plates from Atlantic and Pacific Panama were confirmed to be A. peruviana, which is genetically distinct from the native
Atlantic A. simplex. We suspect A. peruviana was transported through the Canal from the Pacific to the Atlantic attached as hull fouling on
vessels or recreational boats. Salinity tolerance experiments in the laboratory showed that all individuals in the seawater control survived
while 25% survived a 12-hour exposure to freshwater from Gatun Lake, confirming that some A. peruviana individuals can survive even the
estimated maximum transit of up to 12 hours through the Panama Canal.
A1  - Schlöder, C.
A1  - Canning-Clode, J.
A1  - Saltonstall, K.
A1  - Strong, E.
A1  - Ruiz, G.
A1  - Torchin, M.
DO  - 10.3391/ai.2013.8.4.08
JO  - Aquatic Invasions
IS  - 4
SP  - 443
EP  - 448
C1  - 8(4): 443-448
TI  - The Pacific bivalve Anomia peruviana in the Atlantic: a recent invasion across the Panama Canal?
UR  - https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=176956
VL  - 8
PY  - 2013
Y2  - 2026-07-21
ER  -