Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Durban/South Africa/Indian Ocean (Millar 1955, cited by Mead et al. 2011, misdidnetified as M. exasperatus); ; Mossel bya to Richardson Bay (Holman et al. 22)

Geographic Extent

Durban/South Africa/Indian Ocean (Millar 1955, cited by Mead et al. 2011b, misidentified earlier as M. exasperatus); Knysna/South Africa/Indian Ocean (two specimens on buoys) (Monniot et al. 2001); Port Elizabeth/South Africa/Indian Ocean (2005, Rius et al. 2008, established); South Africa/Mossel Bay (2007, Rius et al. 2014)