Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Records: Rangitoto Island, Musick Point, Buckland Beach, Glendowie, around Auckland, North Island/New Zealand/Auckland Harbor (3-9/2002, Hayward and Morley 2009, initially misidentifed as native Pyura spinosus, ID'd as S. clava in 2005, by a visiting British biologist)

Geographic Extent

Auckland, North Island/New Zealand/Auckland Harbor (2002, Hayward and Morley 2009; 2005, Biosecurity New Zealand 2005a); Christchurch, South Island/New Zealand/Lyttleton Harbour (2005, Biosecurity New Zealand 2005a); Tutukaka, North Island/New Zealand/Hauraki Gulf (2005, Biosecurity New Zealand 2005b); McFadden et al. 2007;; Picton, South Island, New Zealand/Cook Strait ( McFadden et al. 2007;;