Volume 24, Issue 73, January - June, 2023

First records with morphological confirmation of invasive Centropages tenuiremis (Copepoda: Calanoida: Centropagidae) from the Straits of Malacca

Muhammad Harith Mohd Hamdan¹, Azman Abdul Rahim^1,2♦

¹Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia
²Marine Ecosystem Research Centre (EKOMAR), Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

^♦Corresponding author
Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia and Marine Ecosystem Research Centre (EKOMAR), Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Centropages tenuiremis Thompson I.C. and Scott A., 1903 was described for the first time from the waters of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). However, the current distribution of this invasive species has been recorded from Japanese waters, Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Andaman Sea, India and also the Arabian Gulf. Of late, C. tenuiremis has been recorded from numerous localities of Southeast Asian waters, often with no attempt at justification of identification. Centropages tenuiremis was initially discovered in mid-March 2020 in a sample taken during a long-term plankton survey along the west coast of Johor (Straits of Malacca) started. This study aimed to identify the invasive C. tenuiremis morphologically to meet the attributes for introduced species which are based on the premise of morphologic accuracy.

Keywords: Straits of Malacca, Zooplankton, Invasive species, Copepoda, Centropages tenuiremis

Species, 2023, 24(73), e44s1538

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.54905/disssi/v24i73/e44s1538

Published: 14 May 2023