Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Plymouth/England/English Channel (1911, Ryland et al. 2011; 1928, Ryland 1960) Bugula neritina apparently disappeared from British waters in the 1960s possibly because of severe winters or cool summers, but reappeared or was rediscovered, by 2004 in Arenas et al.'s surveys (Ryland et al. 2007).

Geographic Extent

Plymouth/England/English Channel (1911, 1928, Ryland 1960; Ryland et al. 2011; Fehlauer-Ale et al. 2014, Haplotype S); Plymouth/England/English Channel (2004, Arenas et al. 2006); Torquay/England/English Channel (2004, Arenas et al. 2006); Falmouth/England/English Channel (2004, Arenas et al. 2006; 2010, 2013, Bishop et al. 2015b)