Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: Woods Hole/MA/Buzzards Bay-Vineyard Sound (1998, Whitlatch and Osman 2000)
Geographic Extent
Tripps Marina, Westport/MA/Buzzards Bay (2003, MIT Sea Grant 2003; 2010, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management 2013); Woods Hole/MA/Buzzards Bay-Vineyard Sound; (1998, Whitlatch and Osman 2000); Woods Hole/MA/Eel Pond, Vineyard Sound; (1998, MIT Sea Grant 2003)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Probable | Hull Fouling |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Competition | |
| In experiments in Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Diplosoma listerianum outgrew Botrylloides violaceus and other organisms on fouling plates, covering ~72% of the plates at the peak of its growth (Agius 2007). | ||