Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Tidal Record: Charles County/MD/lower Potomac River tributaries (2006, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2017) !st Nontidal Record: Dauphin County ('to the Fall Line, MD boundary)/PA/Susquehanna River (1976, USNM 147679, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2017);
Geographic Extent
Tidal Records: Prince Georges-Charles County/MD/lower Potomac River tributaries, Piscatway Creek, Mattawoman Creek, Mallows Bay (2006-2010, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2017); Charles County/MD/Nanjemoy Creek (2010, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2017); Dorchester County/MD/Little Blackwater River (2006, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2017). Widespread in nontidal upper Bay tributaries, Bush, Gunpowder, Patuxent, Eastern Shore tributaries; Chester, Choptank, Nanticoke, Pocomoke Rivers, (2006, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2017)
Vectors
Level | Vector |
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Alternate | Discarded Bait |
Alternate | Natural Dispersal |