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Invasive Japanese foraminifera in a south-west Australian estuary

Clément M. Tremblin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9600-0130 A D , Maria Holzmann B , Justin H. Parker C , Aleksey Sadekov A and David W. Haig A
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A Oceans Graduate School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

B Department of Genetics and Evolution, The University of Geneva, 30 Quai Ernest Ansermet, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

C Task Fronterra Geoscience, 24 Risely Street, Ardross, WA 6153, Australia.

D Corresponding author. Email: 23126169@student.uwa.edu.au

Marine and Freshwater Research 73(3) 328-342 https://doi.org/10.1071/MF21254
Submitted: 31 August 2021  Accepted: 27 October 2021   Published: 24 November 2021

Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2021 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

An invasive foraminiferan is recorded for the first time in an Australian estuary. Trochammina hadai, originally described as endemic from Japan and subsequently found to be alien in coastal waters of California and Brazil, has been identified in estuarine sediment in the vicinity of Bunbury Port in Western Australia. Species determination is based on morphological, molecular and ecological similarities to the Japanese type. The species has not been recorded in other estuaries in Australia. Bunbury Port is a major exporter of woodchip to Japan and the introduction of T. hadai may have come from ballast water out of shallow-draught woodchip vessels. Small sediment samples of estuarine mud obtained at water depths of ~5 m contain abundant T. hadai (on average ~0.4 mm in adult diameter) that are easily recognised in microscopic view of the sediment surface by their bright reddish-brown colour. The collection of sediment samples from the estuarine floor and ballast water, and the examination of these for foraminifers, may provide a useful indicator in estuaries for the possible presence of other exotic species, particularly in the vicinity of ports.

Keywords: agglutinated foraminifera, Bunbury Port, Collie River, invasive distribution, Leschenault Inlet, Trochammina hadai, Western Australia.


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