Species Regional Summary
Styela plicata
None ( CAR-IV )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: St. Thomas/US Virgin Islands/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM 6916 U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2007)

Geographic Extent

'Halfway Between Airport Landing And Bridge Crossing The Lower Half Of San Juanr'/Puerto Rico/San Juan Harbor' (1937, USNM 14597, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2007); ; mari na. San Juanr/Puerto Rico/San Juan Harbor (2019, Streit et al. 2-21); St. Thomas/US Virgin Islands/Caribbean Sea (1884, USNM 6916, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2007); Woodbridge Bay/Dominica/Caribbean Sea (1956, USNM 14556, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2007); Carriacou Island/Grenada/Tyrrell Bay Caribbean Sea (1956, USNM 14820, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2007); Guadeloupe/Caribbean Sea (Monniot and Monniot 1985)

Vectors

Level Vector
Probable Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

References

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