Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: VA/Chesapeake Bay, Mobjack Bay, Bay Side (1916, USNM 79234, US National Museum of Natural History 2008, 'From Pine Stump Between Tides')
Geographic Extent
VA/York River, Chesapeake Bay (abundant in high intertidal of pilings and Spartina, Van Engle in Wass et al. 1972); Chesapeake Bay (Gosner 1978); Cape Charles/VA/Chesapeake Bay-Atlantic Ocean (Dando and Southward 1980); VA/Chesapeake Bay, Mobjack Bay, Bay Side (1916, USNM 79234, US National Museum of Natural History 2008, 'From Pine Stump Between Tides'); Smith Island, W Side Near N End/MD/Chesapeake Bay (1935, USNM 79235, US National Museum of Natural History 2008, 'From Grass Over Water, Intertidal'); Fisherman's Island/VA/Chesapeake Bay-Atlantic Ocean (1935, USNM 79236, USNM 79326, US National Museum of Natural History 2008)
Vectors
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Regional Impacts
References
Dando, P. R.; Southward, A.J. (1980) A new species of Chthamalus (Crustacea: Cirripedia) characterized by enzyme electrophoresis and shell morphology: with a revision of other species of Chthamalus from the Western shores of the Atlantic Ocean., Journal of the Marine Biological Association 60: 787-8312002-2021 Invertebrate Zoology Collections Database. <missing description>
Wass, Melvin L. (1972) A checklist of the biota of lower Chesapeake Bay, Special Scientific Report, Virginia Institute of Marine Science 65: 1-290