Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Nueces County/TX/South Corpus Christi Bay (1995, Hicks and Tunnell 1995). An email from David Hicks (3/2/2017, indicates that P. perna might be rare or absent in Texas since ~2000. He attributes the decline to hot summer weather (Kim Holzer, personal communication).

Geographic Extent

Nueces County/TX/South Corpus Christi Bay (1995, Hicks and Tunnell 1995)