Invasion

Invasion Description

1st records: MA/Vineyard Sound (Verrill 1871); New Haven/CT/Long Island Sound (Verrill 1871, as Cynthia stellifera)

Geographic Extent

Nantucket Shoals, South Of/MA/Atlantic Ocean (39.941667 N, -69.722222 S, 1884, USNM 1603, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); MA/Vineyard Sound (Verrill 1871); Woods Hole/MA/Buzzards Bay-Vineyard Sound (Verrill and Smith 1873); Edgartown & Vineyard Haven/MA/Vineyard Sound (Verrill and Smith 1873); Nyes Neck, North Falmouth/MA/Buzzards Bay (1881, USNM 3249, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); Tripps Marina, Westport/MA Westport River (Buzzards Bay) (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003; 2010, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management 2013); Newport/RI/Narragansett Bay-Rhode Island Sound (USNM 55, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); Warwick Cove Marina/RI/Warwick Cove, Narragansett Bay (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003); ; Allens Harbor, North Kingstown/RI/West Passage, Narragansett Bay (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003); Barrington Yacht Club/RI/Narragansett Bay (Ruiz et al., unpublished data); New England Boatworks, Portsmouth/RI/Sakonnet River (Ruiz et al. unpublished data); Sakonnet Railway Bridge/RI/Sakonnet River (Ruiz et al. unpublished data); Wickford Shipyard/RI/West Passage, Narragansett Bay (Ruiz et al. unpublished data); Bristol Town Dock/RI/Narragansett Bay (Ruiz et al., unpublished data); Noank/CT/Long Island Sound (1874, USNM 4938, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); New Haven/CT/Long Island Sound (Verrill 1871, as Cynthia stellifera); Brewer Yacht Yard at Mystic/CT/Fishers Island Sound (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003); Milford Yacht Club, Milford/CT/Long Island Sound (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003);; Brewer Yacht Haven Marine Center, Stamford/CT/Long Island Sound (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003); NY/Great Peconic Bay (USNM 16006, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); East Creek Marina, Jamesport/NY/Peconic Bay (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003); Kiptopeke/VA/Chespeake Bay-Atlantic Ocean (2000, Ruiz et al., unpublished data); Silver Beach/VA/Nassawaddox Creek (2000, Ruiz et al., unpublished data); Norfolk Naval Station/VA/Hampton Roads (2000, Ruiz et al., unpublished data) [Several early deepwater records off Virginia could represent a different species (Gretchen Lambert, personal communication: USNM 3972, VA/Atlantic Ocean (1883, 37.600000 N, -74.250000S, 327 m, US National Museum of Natural History 2007)]