Invasive lionfish have now reached Brazilian waters
In an article just published in the open-access science journal PloS One, the first appearance of lionfish off the Brazilian coast has been reported.
The invasion of the northwestern Atlantic by the Indo-Pacific lionfish has developed extraordinarily fast, and is expected to cause one of the most negative ecological impacts among all marine invasions. Despite the anticipation that lionfish would eventually extend their range throughout most of the eastern coast of South America, it had not been recorded in Brazil until now.