Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Millstone Nuclear Power Plant (Waterford)/CT/Long Island Sound (1985, Carlton, personal communication); Avery Point/CT/Fishers Island Sound (Osman, personal communication)

Geographic Extent

Woods Hole/MA/Buzzards Bay-Vineyard Sound (McGovern and Hellberg 2003; Fehlauer et al. 2014, Haplotype N, 41° 31' N, 72°08' W); Woods Hole Coast Guard Base/MA/Vineyard Sound (2013, Wells et al. 2014); Marine Biological Laboratory dock, Woods Hole (2013, Wells et al. 2014);; Coasters Harbor Island, Newport/RI/East Passage, Narragansett Bay (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2003); Newport Shipyard (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2003); RI/Narragansett Bay (Ruiz et al. unpublished data); Point Judith Marina, South Kingston/RI/Point Judith Pond (MacIntyre et al. 2010; Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management 2013; 2019, Pederson et al.2021); a thermal effluent population in Millstone Nuclear Power Plant, Waterford/CT/Long Island Sound (1985, Carlton, personal communication, 41 20N; 72 08W, McGovern and Hellberg 2003; Fehlauer et al. 2014, Haplotype N); Avery Point/CT/Fishers Island Sound (Osman, personal communication); Moonbeam Gateway Marina, Brooklyn/NY/Jamaica Bay (2019, Pederson et al. 2021); DE/Indian River Lagoon (38 35N; 75 17W, McGovern and Hellberg 2003); Sunset Marina, Ocean City/MD/Ocean City Inlet (7/29/2013, Paul Fofonoff, personal observation, established population; Fehlauer et al. 2014, Haplotype N,); Chincoteague/VA/Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet (7/29/2013, Paul Fofonoff, personal observation, established population; Fehlauer et al. 2014, Haplotype N; Haplotype S); Wachapreague/VA/Wachapreague Inlet (10/2009, Canning-Clode, pers. Comm.); Kiptopeake/VA/Chesapeake Bay (2000, Ruiz et al. unpublished data)