{"id":3905,"date":"2025-03-26T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T16:48:10","slug":"boergesenia-forbesii-a-recent-immigrant-to-barbados-26mar2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/03\/26\/boergesenia-forbesii-a-recent-immigrant-to-barbados-26mar2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Boergesenia forbesii, a recent immigrant to Barbados?  26Mar2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM-300x178.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-26-at-12.40.48\u202fPM.png 1628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> IN SHORT&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To date, photos of a green alga from Barbados uploaded to iNaturalist that appear to be <em>Boergesenia forbesii<\/em> have commonly been identified as <em>Valonia utricularis<\/em> (some gaining Research Grade status), or a species of <em>Ulva<\/em> or <em>Caulerpa<\/em>. A suggestion that a specimen I had identified as Valonia sp. was in fact a species of <em>Boergesenia<\/em> prompted my investigation of this topic.<\/p>\n<p>The Conclusion: Overall, reports in the literature and iNaturalist records suggest that the earliest occurrence of <em>Boergesenia forbesii<\/em> in the Caribbean was in Puerto Rico (2008 reported collection date), and that it has spread southward reaching Barbados sometime between 2008 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Of Indo-Pacific origin, <em>Boergesenia forbesii<\/em> is clearly a recent immigrant to Barbados.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/boergesenia-forbesii-in-barbados\/journal\">in iNaturalist Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IN SHORT&#8230; To date, photos of a green alga from Barbados uploaded to iNaturalist that appear to be Boergesenia forbesii have commonly been identified as Valonia utricularis (some gaining Research Grade status), or a species of Ulva or Caulerpa. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/2025\/03\/26\/boergesenia-forbesii-a-recent-immigrant-to-barbados-26mar2025\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exotic-species","tag-exotic-species"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3911,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}