Invasion

Invasion Description

Type locality: Falmouth, Cornwall/England/English Channel (Pallas 1776, cited by Austalian Faunal Directory 2007 http://www.deh.gov.au/cgi bin/abrs/fauna/details.pl?pstrVol=TUNICATA;pstrTaxa=1469;pstrChecklistMode=2)

Geographic Extent

All around the coasts of UK and Ireland (MarLin 2006); "all coasts, distributed from northern Norway to the Mediterranean" (Hayward and Ryland 1990); Falmouth, Cornwall/England/Celtic Sea (Bock et al. 2012, Clade A)