Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Woods Hole/MA/Woods Hole Harbor (Verrill and Smith 1873, 'abundant pn piles', , Vineyard Sound, 6 to 8 fathoms, as B. flabellata)

Geographic Extent

Woods Hole/MA/Woods Hole Harbor (Verrill and Smith 1873, 'abundant pn piles', , Vineyard Sound, 6 to 8 fathoms, as B. flabellata; Osburn 1912, 'uncommon in our dredgings, but it grows abundantly on piles throughout our region'); Woods Hole/MA/Eel Pond, Woods Hole Passage(8/6/1939, YPM IZ 030922, Yale Peabody Museum 2014; Ryland and Hayward 1991); Woods Hole Coast Guard Base/MA/Little Harbor (2013, Wells et al. 2014); Woods Hole/MA/floats in Eel Pond, piles elsewhere (Rogick and Croasdale 1949, as B. flabellata; Rogick, in Smith 1964; Winston and Hayward 2012); Island Marina, New Bedford (2018, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Office of Coastal Zone Management 2020);Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Bourne/MA/Buzzards Bay (MacIntyre et al. 2011); Popes Island Marina, New Bedford/MA/Buzzards Bay (2010, MacIntyre et al. 2011)