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Key, Marcus M., Jr., and Michel E. Hendrickx. Biflustra irregulata (Cheilostomata: Membraniporidae): A Tsunami Debris Rafted Indo-Pacific Bryozoan Found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa 5128, no. 3 (2022): 340-354. https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5128.3.2

Marcus Key is a professor of Earth Sciences at Dickinson College.

Previous studies documented colonies of the cheilostome bryozoan Biflustra irregulata rafting across the Pacific Ocean on debris from the 2011 Great East Japan megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami. They arrived in the eastern Pacific on floating non-biodegradable tsunami debris from 2014 to 2016. Based on a newly discovered occurrence of this species off the west coast of Mexico, we report that this species has successfully expanded its range from the Indo-Pacific to the northeast Pacific following this dispersal event. Colonies were found encrusting barnacles on spiny lobsters from the southeastern Gulf of California.