Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Port Hamble (Isle of Wight)/England/Solent (English Channel) (1994, Fletcher and Farrell 1999)

Geographic Extent

Carrickfergus/Northern Ireland/Irish Sea (Guiry 2016); Northern Ireland/Belfast Lough (2012, Minchin and Nunn 2014);Ireland/Carlingford Lough (2021, O'Shaughnessy et al. 2023); Port Hamble (Isle of Wight)/England/English Channel;(1994, Fletcher and Farrell 1999) Brighton to Hamble/England/English Channel (2004, Arenas et al. 2006); Yerseke/Netherlands/Oosterschelde estuary, North sea (1999, Wolff 2005); West-Terschelling harbour/Netherlands/Wadden Sea (Gittenberger et al. 2010); Zeebrugge/Belgium/North Sea (1999, Wolff 2005; Kerchof et al. 2007) a marina/Scotland/Firth of Forth (2016, ICES WGITMO 2017, 55.993,-–3.409); Found in~26 marinas, ~3 natural reefs in English Channel, North Sea, and Irish Sea regions of British Islaea (Epstein and Smale 2017);7 marinas, East Anglia/England/English Channel (2015, 7 marinas, Wood et al. 2016); 1 marina, Lancashire/England/Irish Sea (2015, Wood et al. 2016); Le Havre/France/English Channel (1999, Verlaque and Breton 2019)