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NEW RECORDS OF THE NORTH PACIFIC COASTAL PLANKTONIC , OMORII () AND O/THONA DA V/SAE (OITHONIDAE) FROM SOUTHERN CHILE

Kazumasa Hirakawa

In the routine sampling programs of the Japan International Coop- eration Agency (JICA) and Servicio Nacional de Pesca (SERNAP) of the Republic of Chile, zooplankton were collected at approximately monthly intervals with a Norpac net in Ensenada Baja (45°27'S, 72°49'W), a Chilean lagoon on Aysen Fjord from June 1980 to December 1986. Of 38 species encountered, the discovery of Centropages abdomina/is Sato, 1913 (17 females and 22 males), a calanoid copepod endemic to the North Pacific boreal-temperate waters, in November 1983 was reported as a new record for the South Pacific by Hirakawa (1986). Moreover, Bradford, 1976 (9 females and 10 males) and Oithona davisae Ferrari and Orsi, 1984 (81 females), whose type localities are in the North Pacific, were found for the first time from this fjord during re-examination of the zooplankton sample in which C. abdominalis was found. Both species were absent in other samples from the area, while A. tonsa Dana, 1849 and O. simi/is Claus, 1866, which are regarded as congeneric native species of Chilean coastal waters from the previous records (Giesbrecht, 1889; 1891; Arcos, 1975; 1976), occurred seasonally during the study period. Although the geographical distribution of A. omorii, which was believed to be restricted to Japanese waters (Bradford, 1976; Ueda, 1986a; 1986b), is incompletely known, its occurrence from Chilean waters is undoubtedly a new record for the South Pacific. O. davisae was previously confused with another Indo-West Pacific estuarine rostrate oithonid, O. brevicornis Giesbrecht, 1891 338 BULLETIN OF MARINE SCIENCE, VOL. 42, NO.2, 1988

(Nishida et al., 1977), which was reported from the Pacific coast of South America by Wilson (1942). According to Nishida (1985), however, Wilson's records of O. brevicornis have not been verified by other workers and are considered question- able. Furthermore estuarine rostrate oithonids have not been reported from North or South America (Ferrari and Bowman, 1980, and sources cited therein). If this information is correct, the discovery of 0, davisae from this lagoon is a new record for the South Pacific along with C. abdominalis and A. omorii. These specimens of the three species have been deposited in the National Science Museum, Tokyo, Japan: C. abdominalis (NSMT-Cr 9355), A. omorii (NSMT-Cr 9356), and O. davisae (NSMT-Cr 9357). The disjunct distribution of A. omorii and O. davisae possibly can be attributed to introduction resulting from ballast water transport, as proposed for C. abdom- inalis (Hirakawa, 1986). Ferrari and Orsi (1984) consider the occurrence of O. davisae in California as indicating a synanthropic introduction, by ship ballast water, possibly from estuaries of the Asian continent. The port of Chacabuco located near Ensenada Baja can anchor freighters of I0 thousand tons displacement and has been used for shipments of lead concentrates and wool, and for local shipments of cattle (Wylie, 1983). Mr. K. Shimazu (an aquaculturist formerly with JICA) mentioned that a Japanese freighter had entered this port for shipment of tin ores in late February 1983 (pers. comm.). Although reports on the coastal and estuarine plankton distribution in western South America are scarce, I have independently come to the above-mentioned suggestion on the mechanism for introductions of these apparently isolated populations.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am very grateful to Dr. F. D. Ferrari, Smithsonian Institution for his helpful suggestion and critical reading of the draft of this manuscript. Thanks are expressed to the staffs of the JICA and the SERNAP, who assisted with the field work.

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