Species Regional Summary
Cordylophora caspia
San Francisco Bay ( P090 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Antioch/CA/San Joaquin River (1930, Hand and Gwilliam 1951; Carlton 1979)

Geographic Extent

Antioch/CA/San Joaquin River (1930, Hand and Gwilliam 1951; Carlton 1979); CA/San Joaquin-Sacramento Delta (Hazel and Kelley 1966, cited by Carlton 1979; Siegfried et al. 1980); San Francisco/CA/Lake Merced (Fraser 1948; Hand and Gwilliam 1951; Carlton 1979); CA/Delta-Mendota Canal (Carlton 1979); Contra Costa County/CA/San Pablo Reservoir (Hand and Gwillian 1951; Carlton 1979; Cohen and Carlton 1995); Petaluma Turning Basin/CA/Petaluma River (2004, Cohen et al. 2005); CA/Boynton Slough (2007-2008, Wintzer et al. 2011); CA/Montezuma Slough (2007-2008, Wintzer et al. 2011); CA/Suisun Slough (Wintzer et al. 2011; Meek et al. 2012); cargo ship 'Florikan'/CA/Suisun Bay (Llanso et al. 2011); San Leandro Marina//CA/San Francisco Bay (2010, Marrafini et al. 2017)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Hull Fouling
Alternate Oyster Accidental
Alternate Aquatic Plant Shipments

Regional Impacts

Ecological ImpactFood/Prey
In the San Francisco Bay estuary, C. caspia comprised 18-23% of the diet of the introduced Shimofuri goby (Tridentiger bifasciatus) (Matern and Brown 2005)
 

References

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