Species Regional Summary
Sagartia elegans
Bay of Fundy to Cape Cod ( NA-ET2 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Hawthorne Cove Marina, Salem/MA/Salem Harbor (Massachusetts Bay) (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2003, persisting to at least 2010, MIT Sea Grant 2012)

Geographic Extent

Hawthorne Cove Marina, Salem/MA/Salem Harbor (Massachusetts Bay) (2000, MIT Sea Grant 2003; MIT Sea Grant 2012; 2010, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management 2013)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Hull Fouling
Alternate Ballast Water

Regional Impacts

References

MacIntyre, Chris; Adrienne Pappal; Pederson, Judy; Smith, Jan P. (2011) Marine Invaders in the Northeast Rapid Assessment Survey of non-native and native marine species of floating dock communities, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management, Boston MA. Pp. <missing location>

Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management (2013) Rapid assessment survey of marine species at New England floating docks and rocky shores, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management, Boston MA. Pp. <missing location>

2003-2008 Introduced and cryptogenic species of the North Atlantic. http://massbay.mit.edu/exoticspecies/exoticmaps/introduced.html



2009-2012 Marine Invader Tracking and Information System (MITIS). http://massbay.mit.edu/mitis/



Pederson, Judith and 15 authors (2003) <missing title>, MIT Sea Grant College Program, Cambridge. Pp. <missing location>

Pettay, D. Tye Wham, Drew C. Smith, Robin T. Iglesias-Prieto, Roberto LaJeunesse, Todd C. (2015) Microbial invasion of the Caribbean by an Indo-Pacific coral zooxanthella, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113: 7513–7518
www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1502283112


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