Table 1 List of observed taxa from the RV Meteor moon pool sampled at 15th September 2019 in Walvis Bay (Namibia)
From: An example for transatlantic hitchhiking by macrozoobenthic organisms with a research vessel
Class | Order | Family | Taxon | Origin | No |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Gastropoda | Neogastropoda | Muricidae | Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767) | Western Atlantic | 10 |
Hexanauplia | Lepadiformes | Lepadidae | Conchoderma auritum (Linnaeus, 1767) | cosmopolitan | 3 |
Hexanauplia | Lepadiformes | Lepadidae | Conchoderma virgatum Spengler, 1789 | cosmopolitan | 5 |
Hexanauplia | Lepadiformes | Lepadidae | Lepas anatifera Linnaeus, 1758 | cosmopolitan | 15 |
Hexanauplia | Sessilia | Balanidae | Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854) | Pacific | > 100 |
Malacostraca | Amphipoda | Caprellidae | Paracaprella pusilla Mayer, 1890 | Caribbean | > 50 |
Malacostraca | Amphipoda | Ischyroceridae | Ericthonius brasiliensis (Dana, 1853) | West-Atlantic | > 1000 |
Malacostraca | Amphipoda | Ischyroceridae | Jassa marmorata Holmes, 1905 | North-East Atlantic | > 100 |
Malacostraca | Amphipoda | Podoceridae | Podocerus sp. | ? | 1 |
Malacostraca | Amphipoda | Stenothoidae | Stenothoe senegalensis Krapp-Schickel, 2015 | Senegal | > 100 |
Malacostraca | Decapoda | Plagusiidae | Plagusia sp. | ? | 1 |
Malacostraca | Decapoda | Polybiidae | Liocarcinus sp. | ? | 12 |
Pycnogonida | Pantopoda | Endeidae | Endeis straughani Clark, 1970 | Atlantic-Pacific | > 50 |