Invasion
Invasion Description
1st record: Fort Pierce/FL/Indian River Lagoon (2005, Ruiz et al., unpublished data, established); Grand Isle State Park/LA/Gulf of Mexico (unknown status, Perreault 2004)
Geographic Extent
Ponce Inlet/FL/Ponce de Leon Inlet (2007, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2007; 2010-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); Cocoa Beach-Cape Canaveral/FL/Indian River Lagoon (2008, Spinuzzi et al. 2012); Sebastian Inlet State Park, Sebastian/FL/Sebastian Inlet (2009, Spinuzzi et al. 2012); Fort Pierce/FL/Indian River Lagoon (2005, Ruiz et al. unpublished data, established; 2010-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); Grand Isle State Park/LA/Gulf of Mexico (2001, unknown status, Perreault 2004); Destin/FL/Chockwahatchee Bay (Perreault 2004 "a very few dead specimens", population status unknown); Port Aransas/TX/Aransas Pass (population status unknown, Perreault 2004); Between Davis and Redfish Points, FL/St. Andrews Bay (2008, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2008, Only one found, growing on the float of a scallop trap); Aransas Port Pier/TX/Aransas Pass (2010, Cohen et al. 2014, established, N27 49 58.30 W972 31.69); Aransas Port Floating Rig/TX, Cohen et al. 2014, established, N27 47 00.23 W96 56 32.9200); Soto La Marina, Tamaulipas/México/Gulf of Mexico (9/16/2005, Celis et al. 2007, 23.749999, -97.7499962); Tampico, Veracruz/Mexico/Gulf of Mexico (Rodríguez-Almaraz and García-Madrigal 2014)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Ballast Water |
| Alternate | Hull Fouling |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Competition | |
| In experiments in Mosquito Lagoon, Florida, Megabalanus coccopoma, on fouling plates, reduced the settlement of larvae of Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica), but did not affect the growth of oyster spat (Yuan et al. 2016). | ||