Northern Range Extensions for Caprella scaura Templeton, 1836 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Caprellidae) on the Florida Gulf Coast and in South Carolina

• Published in: Gulf and Caribbean Research
• Main Authors: Foster, John M., Heard, Richard W., Knott, David M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: The Aquila Digital Community 2004
• Subjects: Caprella scaura; Florida Gulf Coast; South Carolina; Marine Biology; St. Andrew Bay; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol16/iss1/9; https://doi.org/10.18785/gcr.1601.09; https://aquila.usm.edu/context/gcr/article/1356/viewcontent/Pages_from_vol16_5.pdf

Previous northwestern Atlantic records for the caprellid amphipod Caprella scaura Templeton, 1836 were confined to St. Croix (US Virgin Islands), St. Barthélemy, and Puerto Rico, islands bordering the northern Caribbean Sea. Based on recent collections, C. scaura is now reported from the Gulf of Mexico (St. Andrew Bay, Florida) and the US east coast (Charleston Harbor, South Carolina). These constitute the first records for this apparently non-indigenous species in waters of the continental eastern United States, establishing considerable northern range extensions for C. scaura in the northwest Atlantic.