Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: CA/Newport Bay (1946, Barnard 1959, cited by Carlton 1979)

Geographic Extent

CA/Newport Bay (1946, Barnard and Reish 1959, cited by Carlton 1979; 2017, Ruiz and Geller 2021, 1 of 10 sites); Mexico/Bahia de San Quintin (1960, USNM 109099, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2015; Barnard 1964, cited by Carlton 1979; Rodríguez-Almaraz and García-Madrigal 2014); Point Conception/CA/Pacific Ocean (Barnard 1961, 9 m depth, cited by Carlton 1979); Gaviota/CA/Pacific Ocean (Barnard 1961, 15 m depth, cited by Carlton 1979); Goleta/CA/Pacific Ocean (Barnard 1961, 3 m depth, on kelp holdfasts, cited by Carlton 1979)