Red Lionfish DNA data collected from Florida, USA and around the invasive distribution from 2007 to 2016

Red lionfish (Pterois volitans) have become a successful invasive predator across the Northwestern Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Previous investigations have identified the southeast coast of Florida as the original site of introduction, but no region-wide genetic study has directly addressed the question of introduction location(s). This dataset includes previously unpublished red lionfish samples (n = 237) from six locations: The Bahamas, Florida Keys, Northwest Florida, North Carolina, Panama, and Southeast Florida. Sequences archived in NCBI from other locations in the Northern Region, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico basins were used in the analyses (N = 1558). Previously published sequences were...

Categories: Data; Tags: Aquatic Biology, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Genetics, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... North Atlantic, Southeast Florida, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Western Atlantic Ocean, biota, genetic diversity, invasion pathway, invasive species, mitochondrial marker, nuclear microsatellite marker, Fewer tags