An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella torquata (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts
An Atlantic infaunal engineer is established in the Northeast Pacific: Clymenella torquata (Polychaeta: Maldanidae) on the British Columbia and Washington Coasts
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在东北太平洋建立了一种大西洋动物工程师：不列颠哥伦比亚省和华盛顿海岸的 Clymenella torquata（多毛类：Maldanidae）
作者：
M. Mach;C. Levings;P. Mcdonald;K. Chan
据信，西北大西洋竹虫Clymenella torquata是与商业牡蛎养殖一起进口的，最后一次正式报告是在30多年前的美国太平洋海岸。我们在这里报告说，它广泛分布在不列颠哥伦比亚省，现在在华盛顿建立。在华盛顿的萨米什湾，这种管状的底栖动物蠕虫产生了一种海绵状的多孔基质，这种基质被证明是有害的，因为它会导致牡蛎沉入沉积物中窒息而死。关于这次入侵对太平洋西北部的生态或经济影响知之甚少。
The Northwest Atlantic bamboo worm Clymenella torquata, believed to have been imported with commercial oyster culture, was last formally reported from the American Pacific coast more than 30 years ago from a single location. We report here that it is broadly distributed in British Columbia and is now established in Washington. In Samish Bay, Washington, this tubiculous infaunal worm creates a spongy, porous substrate that has proved detrimental to commercial oyster farms by causing the oysters to sink into the sediment and suffocate. Little is known about the ecological or economic impacts of this invasion in the Pacific Northwest.