Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: NY/Staten Island (1886, Smith 1886, cited by Bequaert 1943)

Geographic Extent

Rockaway, New York City/NY/Atlantic Ocean (Smith and Prime 1870); 65th street, Brooklyn/NY/Jamaica Bay (6/17/1964, Jacobson 1965, 'one live specimen and one dead specimen); salt marsh behind beach), Brooklyn/NY/Plum Beach (1976, Goldberg 1977, 4 live specimens)