Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Fire Island Inlet, Long Island/NY/Atlantic Ocean( 2001, 2 stray juveniles, unlikely to survive winter, Whitfield et al. 2002)

Geographic Extent

Fire Island Inlet, Long Island/NY/Atlantic Ocean (2001, Whitfield et al. 2002); Suffolk County/NY/Shinnecock Bay (2003, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2009); off Belmar, Monmouth County/NJ/Shark River Inlet, Atlantic Ocean (2003, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2009); southern end of Conanicut Island at Fort Wetherill, Jamestown/RI/Narragansett Bay (East Passage) (2006, Center for Aquatic Resource Studies 2006); wreck of the S.S. Kennebec/NJ/Atlantic Ocean (2004, 39.4333 N, -72.8263, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Programs 2009); Virginia Beach/VA/Rudee's Inlet (9/11/2013, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2014, 1 specimen seen)