Invasion
Invasion Description
1st record: Jamestown Island/VA/James River (1965, Calder and Burrell 1967)
Geographic Extent
NJ/Barnegat Bay (2014, Restaino et al. 2018, 39.910911N; ?74.139141W, polyps, morphologically resembling M. inkermanica); NJ-DE/Delaware Bay (unspecified) (Sandifer 1974); St. Leonard/MD/Patuxent River (Ma and Purcell 2005); Jamestown Island/VA/James River (1965, Calder and Burrell 1967); Hog Island/VA/James River (1965, Calder and Burrell 1967); Deep Water Shoal/VA/James River/VA/James River (1965, Calder and Burrell 1967); VA/Pamunkey (York) River (Calder and Burrell 1967); Baltimore/MD/Baltimore Harbor (1995, Ruiz, unpublishd data); Horn Point Laboratory Mesocosm System/MD/Choptank River (1993, Purcell et al. 1999); Dorchester County/MD/Choptank River (Purcell et al. 1999; Ma 2003; Ma and Purcell 2005)
Vectors
Level | Vector |
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Probable | Ballast Water |
Alternate | Hull Fouling |