Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: on a buoy washed up on Ossabaw Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (one specimen, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2006).

Newly established populations of M. coccopoma, north of Cape Canaveral, found in 2006-2009, died out, or greatly declined in the severe winter of 2009-2010, but recovered dramatically by 2011-2012 (Crickenberger and Moran 2013; Crickenberger 2016).

Geographic Extent

Rodanthe/NC/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013, populations, increasing from low to moderate, 2011 to 2012); Frisco/NC/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013, moderate populations, increasing from 2011 to 2012); Avon/NC/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013, moderate populations, increasing from 2011 to 2012); Carteret County/NC/Core Sound (2007, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2007, The barnacle was attached to a bullet buoy that had drifted into the lead of a pound net); Wrightsville beach/NC/Atlantic Ocean (2006, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2007); Murrells Inlet/SC/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); Waites Island/SC/Atlantic Ocean (2007, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2007); Edisto beach/SC/Atlantic Ocean (2007, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2007); Hunting Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013, absent in 2010-2011); SC/Port Royal Sound (2008, Southeast Regional Taxonomic Center 2011); Bay Pt./SC/Atlantic Ocean (6/12/12, Lat: 32° 11.566 N, Long: 80° 35.089 W, Dany E. Burgess and Peter Kingsley-Smith 2012, personal communication); Tybee Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (2010-2011, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); On a buoy washed up on Ossabaw Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (one specimen, USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2006); Sapelo Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger et al. 2013); GA/Sapelo Sound (2010, Cohen et al. 2014, established, N31 32 28.05, W81 10 56.48); St. Simon's Island/GA/Atlantic Ocean (2010-2012, Crickenberger et al. 2013); Jekyll Island, Thalmann/GA/Jekyll Sound (2009, Spinuzzi et al. 2012, one collection); North River Ramp, St Marys/GA/St. Marys River (2010. Spinuzzi et al. 2012, 1 collection); Fernandina Beach/FL/ Atlantic Ocean 2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); on the south St. Johns River jetty at Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville [mouth of the St. Johns River]; Joe Carlucci's house, Jacksonville/FL/St. Johns River (2008, Spinuzzi et al. 2012, 30 23.517 N, 81 27.789 W); Jacksonville Beach/FL/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); St. Augustine [just S of the Bridge of Lions west bank]/FL/Matanzas River, Intercoastal Waterway (USGS Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Program 2006); St. Augustine/FL/Intracoastal Waterway at mouth of Oyster Creek (2007, Sta. 1, Gilg et al. 2010); near St. Augustine Airport/FL/Intracoastal Waterway (2007, Sta. 51, Gilg et al. 2010); South St. Augustine/FL/Intracoastal Waterway (2007, Sta. 46, Gilg et al. 2010); Flagler Beach/Fl/Atlatnic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); Daytona Beach/FL/Atlantic Ocean (2011-2012, Crickenberger and Moran 2013); Menard May Park, New Smyrna Beach/FL/Intracoastal Waterway (2009, Spinuzzi et al. 2012)