Establishment of a taxonomic and molecular reference collection to support the identification of species regulated by the Western Australian Prevention List for Introduced Marine Pests

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Title: Establishment of a taxonomic and molecular reference collection to support the identification of species regulated by the Western Australian Prevention List for Introduced Marine Pests

Contributor: Dias, P. Joana [Author]; Fotedar, Seema [Author]; Munoz, Julieta [Author]; Hewitt, Matthew J. [Author]; Lukehurst, Sherralee [Author]; Hourston, Mathew [Author]; Wellington, Claire [Author]; Duggan, Roger [Author]; Bridgwood, Samantha [Author]; Massam, Marion [Author]; Aitken, Victoria [Author]; Lestang, Paul de [Author]; McKirdy, Simon [Author]; Willan, Richard [Author]; Kirkendale, Lisa [Author]; Giannetta, Jennifer [Author]; Corsini-Foka, Maria [Author]; Pothoven, Steve [Author]; Gower, Fiona [Author]; Viard, Frederique [Author]; Buschbaum, Christian [Author]; Scarcella, Giuseppe [Author]; Strafella, Pierluigi [Author]; Bishop, Melanie J. [Author]; [...]

imprint: Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre - REABIC, 2017

Language: English

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Description: Introduced Marine Pests (IMP, = non-indigenous marine species) prevention, early detection and risk-based management strategies have become the priority for biosecurity operations worldwide, in recognition of the fact that, once established, the effective management of marine pests can rapidly become cost prohibitive or impractical. In Western Australia (WA), biosecurity management is guided by the " Western Australian Prevention List for Introduced Marine Pests " which is a policy tool that details species or genera as being of high risk to the region. This list forms the basis of management efforts to prevent introduction of these species, monitoring efforts to detect them at an early stage, and rapid response should they be detected. It is therefore essential that the species listed can be rapid and confidently identified and discriminated from native species by a range of government and industry stakeholders. Recognising that identification of these species requires very specialist expertise which may be in short supply and not readily accessible in a regulatory environment, and the fact that much publicly available data is not verifiable or suitable for regulatory enforcement, the WA government commissioned the current project to collate a reference collection of these marine pest specimens. In this work, we thus established collaboration with researchers worldwide in order to source representative specimens of the species listed. Our main objective was to build a reference collection of taxonomically vouchered specimens and subsequently to generate species-specific DNA barcodes suited to supporting their future identification. To date, we were able to obtain specimens of 75 species (representative of all but four of the pests listed) which have been identified by experts and placed with the WA Government Department of Fisheries and, where possible, in accessible museums and institutions in Australasia. The reference collection supports the fast and reliable taxonomic and molecular identification of marine ...

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