Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: Curacao/Caribbean Sea (Boschma 1953, cited by Cairns 2000, probably before 1943). Some specimens were from a ship's bottom.

Geographic Extent

Aruba/Caribbean Sea (1971, Fenner 2001); Venezuela/Gulf of Cariaco (1971, Fenner 2001); Venezuela/Bahia de Mochima (1982, Fenner 2001); Reef along shore E. of Boca Santa Marta/Curacao/Caribbean Sea (USNM 61843, US National Museum of Natural History 2003); Little Bonaire Island, West End/Bonaire/Caribbean Sea (1974, USNM 61845, US National Museum of Natural History 2003); Bonaire/Caribbean Sea (1971, Fenner 2001); Curacao/Caribbean Sea (1953, Fenner 2001); Colombia/Caribbean Sea (1969, Fenner 200; Gracia et al. 2011); Isla de Providencia/Colombia/Caribbean Sea (1975, Fennner 2001); Panama/Caribbean Sea (1972, Fenner 2001); Panama/Caribbean Sea (undated, USNMs 3976, 83659 , and 83659 National Museum of Natural History 2003; Porter 1972; Robertson and Glynn, 1977 both cited by Fenner 2001)