Invasion
Invasion Description
1st record: CA/Sherman Lake, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (1989, Cohen and Carlton 1995, as Potoamilla sp.)
Geographic Extent
CA/Sherman Lake, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (1989, Cohen and Carlton 1995); Franks Tract/CA/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Cohen and Carlton 1995); CA/Old River, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (1989, Cohen and Carlton 1995); CA/Grizzly Bay (Cohen and Carlton 1995, as Potoamilla sp.); cargo ship 'Florikan'CA/Suisun Bay (Llanso et al. 2011)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Probable | Ballast Water |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Habitat Change | |
| Mucus from the tubes of Laonome sp. as well as the mucus produced by other native and introduced deposit feeding and tube-building benthos, contributes to a surface layer of flocculent fluff, which may trap much more phtyoplankton than that actually consumed by the animals (Jones et al. 2009). | ||