Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: San Diego/CA/Mission Bay (1995, Engle and Richards 2001; 1998, Ranasinghe et al. 2005)
Geographic Extent
San Diego/CA/Mission Bay (1995, Engle and Richards 2001; 1998, Ranasinghe et al. 2005)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Ballast Water |
| Alternate | None |
| Alternate | Natural Dispersal |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Habitat Change | |
| Settling of Bunodeopsis sp. A on seagrass (Zostera marina) killed plants in San Diego. In experiments, removal of the anemones, resulted in increased growth, due both to shading of the leaf, and weighing the leaf down, increasing self-shading (Williams and Heck 2001, cited by Williams et al. 2007). | ||
| Ecological Impact | Competition | |
| Settling of Bunodeopsis sp. A on seagrass (Zostera marina) killed plants in San Diego by shading the leaf, decreasing photosynthesis (Williams and Heck 2001, cited by Williams et al. 2007). | ||
| Economic Impact | Health | |
| Bunodeopsis sp. A can sting the exposed skin of swimmers and divers, through contact with the whole animal, or with autotomized tentacles, drifting in the waters. The stings are not extremely painful, but produce a sense of irritation and numbness (Ljubenkov, in SCAMIT 1999). | ||