Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record- off Charleston/SC/Blackfish Banks, southward (1880, USNM 7250, US National Museum of Natural History 2007)

Geographic Extent

Cape Fear, SE Off/NC/Atlantic Ocean (1886, USNM 7337, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); off Charleston/SC/Blackfish Banks, southward (1880); NC/Atlantic Ocean (33 37 30 N) (1885); SC/Atlantic Ocean (1982, 32 30 54 N; 079 42 54 W, 1993, USNM 16467, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); GA/Atlantic Ocean (1981, 31 40 48 N; 080 21 06 W, USNM 24316 , US National Museum of Natural History 2007); Seapath Marine, Wrightsville Beach/NC/Banks Channel (2018, Hutichings et al. 2108, observed growing only after hurricanes)