Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: off New Bedford/MA/Buzzards Bay (Agassiz 1859, cited by Gould 1870, as Ascidia ocellata)

Geographic Extent

Nantucket Shoals, South Of/MA/Atlantic Ocean, (1882, 40 N, 70.6 W, USNM 4647, US National Museum of Natural History 2007); Tripp Marina, Westport/MA/Westport River (Buzzards Bay), (MIT Sea Grant 2003); Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Bourne/MA/Buzzards Bay (MIT Sea Grant 2003); Woods Hole/MA/Eel Pond (Vineyard Sound) (MIT Sea Grant 2003); off New Bedford/MA/Buzzards Bay (Agassiz 1850, cited by Gould 1870); Fall River/MA/Mount Hope Bay (MIT Sea Grant 2003); Off Beaver Tail Light/RI/Narragansett Bay (1880, USNM 3818, US National Museum of Natural History 2009); Point Judith Marina, Wakefield/RI/Point Judith Pond (2019, Pederson et al. 2021); Groton/CT/Fishers Island Sound (Osman and Whitlatch 1995); NJ-DE/Delaware Bay-Atlantic Ocean (Plough 1978)