Table 1. Samples information.
Number of samples collected at eight sites along the Mexican Caribbean coast during 2018–2019. Habitat refers to distance from coast, shore (2–20 m from coast) or ocean (>5 km from coast).
| Locality | Habitat | Collection | Species/Morphotype | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Month | Sflu III | Snat I | Snat VIII | Sarg sp | |||
| 1 - Contoy Island | Ocean | 2019 | March | 4 | 4 | |||
| 2 - Blue waters | Ocean | 2018 | August | 1 | 1 | |||
| 3 - Puerto Morelos | Shore | 2018 | August | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| September | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| October | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||
| December | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2019 | February | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |||
| March | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| April | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 4 - Cozumel | Ocean | 2018 | August | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2019 | May | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 5 - Mahahual | Shore | 2019 | May | 4 | 3 | 7 | ||
| 6 - Chinchorro | Shore | 2019 | May | 1 | 1 | |||
| 7 - Xahuayxol | Shore | 2019 | April | 1 | 2 | |||
| May | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| June | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| 8 - Xcalak | Shore | 2019 | May | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||
| Total | 24 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 63 | |||
Notes.
Sarg sp: Sargassum spp., Sflu III: Sargassum fluitans III, Snat I: S. natans I, Snat VIII: S. natans VIII.