Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: DE/Indian River Inlet (1992, McDermott 1998)
Geographic Extent
DE/Indian River Inlet (1992, McDermott 1998); Holts Landing/DE/Indian River Inlet (2003, Miller and Brown 2005); Burton Island Marina, Rehoboth/DE/Rehoboth Bay (2003, Miller and Brown 2005).
Hemigrapsus sanguineus declined from 2001 to 2012 at Indian River Inlet atnd Ocean City Inlet, with a resurgence of native Panopeus herbsti (Schab et al. 2013).
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Hull Fouling |
| Alternate | Natural Dispersal |