Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Norfolk, Ocean Park Bridge/VA/Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay (6/24/1967, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Hyannis/MA/West Bay. Nantucket Sound (1963, not established, Zullo 1966); New York/NY/New York City Harbor (1925, not established, "Collected From Ship's Bottom, New York", USNM 155409, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2002)

Geographic Extent

Hyannis/MA/West Bay. Nantucket Sound (1963, not established, Zullo 1966); Popes Island Marina, New Bedford/MA/Buzzards Bay (2013, Wells et al. 2014, not established); Mystic/CT/Mystic River estuary, Fishers Island Sound (1990, Carlton et al. 2010), ont established; Avery Point, Groton/CT/ Fishers Island Sound (2000, Whitlatch, personal communication, cited by Carlton et al. 2010); Norfolk, Ocean Park Bridge/VA/Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay (1967, Henry and McLaughlin 1975); Virginia Beach/VA/Lynnhaven Bay (2001, 2002, on SERC plates, Ruiz et al., unpublished data)