Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: CA/South San Francisco Bay (1960, Light 1974; Carlton 1979, Cohen and Carlton 1995)
Geographic Extent
CA/South San Francisco Bay (1960, Light 1974; Carlton 1979, Cohen and Carlton 1995); CA/San Pablo Bay (Hopkins 1986; Cohen and Carlton 1995); Dumbarton Bridge/CA/South San Francisco Bay (1961, USNM 40684, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2014); Redwood City/CA/Redwood City Harbor, South San Francisco Bay (1973, Light 1974); Hunters Point, San Francisco /CA/San Francisco Bay (Light 1974); Oakland/CA/Oakland Inner Harbor, San Francisco Bay (Light 1974); CA/Carquinez Strait (1973, Light 1974); CA/San Frnaicsco Bay (11% of all infaunal txa, 2012-2016, Jimenez et al. 2019)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Oyster Accidental |
| Alternate | Ballast Water |
Regional Impacts
References
2002 <i>Sabaco elongatus</i> (Verrill, 1873). http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/izg/SFBay2K/maldanidworm.htmCohen, Andrew N.; Carlton, James T. (1995) Nonindigenous aquatic species in a United States estuary: a case study of the biological invasions of the San Francisco Bay and Delta, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Sea Grant College Program (Connecticut Sea Grant), Washington DC, Silver Spring MD.. Pp. <missing location>
Gillett, David J.; Ranasinghe, J. Ananda; Stein, Eric D. (2012) <missing title>, San Francisco Estuary Institute, San Francisco CA. Pp. 1-19
Hopkins, Dale R. (1986) Atlas of the distributions and abundances of common benthic species in San Francisco Bay, California, US Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 86-4003: 1-16+ 25+228
Jimenez, H.; Ruiz, G. M. (2016) Contribution of non-native species to soft-sediment marine community structure of San Francisco Bay, California, Biological Invasions Publshed online: <missing location>
Light, William J. (1974) Occurrence of the Atlantic maldanid Asychis elongata (Annelida, Polychaeta) in San Francisco Bay, with comments on its synonymy, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 87(17): 175-184
Topping, Brent R. and 9 authors (2004) Sediment remobilization of mercury in South San Francisco Bay, California, US Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2004-5196: 1-26
2002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. <missing description>