Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Long Island/NY/Oyster Bay (on hull of "Bounty II", wooden sailing ship) (1962, Turner 1966, worms survived the winter, eggs fertilized, larval development was started but not completed)

Geographic Extent

Long Island/NY/Oyster Bay (on hull of "Bounty II", wooden sailing ship) (1962, Turner 1966, worms survived the winter, eggs fertilized, larval development was started but not completed, failed); Ocean County/NJ/Oyster Creek (1974-1978, Barnegat Bay, thermal effluents, not seen after 1979) (Hoagland andTurner 1980; Richards et al. 1984, extinct); Wachapreague/VA/Wachapreague Channel (1988-1989, McGovern and Burreson 1990, unknown)