Invasion

Invasion Description

Type Locality: Miaimi/Florida/Miami River (Treadwell 1934, cited by ten Hove and Weerdenberg 1978)

Geographic Extent

United States of America: Florida, Miami River, 17 May 1933, from carapace of freshwater shrimp, Macrobrachium jamaicense (Herbst), Capt. John W. Mills coll. (18 specimens, syntypes, tubes; USNM 20074, 20075, 20077; AMNH 2167; tHU 210); Florida, tributary of Indian River, Undersea Institute of America (six specimens, many tubes; AHF; tHU 218); Florida, Vero Beach, adjacent to Indian River, artificial ponds at Entomological Research Center, 22 and 26 March 1963, 11 June 64 (40 specimens, tubes; USNM 54335-6); Florida, Miami, Coral Gables Canal, 25 March 1969, M. L. Jones coll. (one specimen; USNM 54337); Florida, northwest coast, St. Mark Wildlife Refuge, near St. Mark Lighthouse (30? 05' N; 84? 12' W), 15 Dec. 1976, 26 Feb 1977, on submerged tree limbs in brackish water ponds, salinity ll%o, P. G. Johnson coll. (28 specimens, tubes; USNM 54795; tHU 258) ; Louisiana, Lake Pontchartrain, mouth of industrial canal, salinity 2.5-3%o, M.A. Poirrier coll. (eight specimens, tube fragments; USNM 54794; tHU 255); Corpus Christi/TX/Gulf of Mexico (Bastida-Zavala et al. 2017); Mandinga/Mexico/Veracruz State, Laguna Grande, Station 26, Tovar-Hernandez et al. 2022, 19°2′20.64′′N 96° 4′24.24′′W, on Crassostrea virginica)