A CHECKLIST OF THE MOLLUSKS FROM THE MIRAFLORES AND PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL, PANAMA

Maycol Madrid; Rachel Collin

Submitted July 15, 2021

Published 2021-07-14

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): Tecnociencia

A CHECKLIST OF THE MOLLUSKS FROM THE MIRAFLORES AND PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL, PANAMA

Maycol Madrid⁺⁻
Rachel Collin⁺⁻

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Madrid, M. and Collin, R. (2021) “A CHECKLIST OF THE MOLLUSKS FROM THE MIRAFLORES AND PEDRO MIGUEL LOCKS, PANAMA CANAL, PANAMA”, Tecnociencia, 23(2), pp. 140–168. Available at: https://revistas.up.ac.pa/index.php/tecnociencia/article/view/2272 (Accessed: 21 November 2024).

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Abstract

The Panama Canal Lock System provides an adequate environment for the settlement and recruitment of marine organisms, being invertebrates which contributes substantially to the local diversity. In July and September of 2019, we sampled inside two of the lock’s chambers on the Pacific side of Panama; one at the Miraflores locks and one at Pedro Miguel locks. We illustrate the species found and we made a checklist of the entire molluscan fauna from this and previous studies. A total of 17 species were collected and identified (4 bivalves and 13 gastropods), of which 6 are new reports for the locks. Two bivalves species, Mytella strigata and Brachidontes playasensis, which are new records for the country, already known from the Tropical Eastern Pacific.

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