Species Regional Summary
Hobsonia florida
Puget Sound ( P290 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Everett/WA/Steamboat Slough (Puget Sound) (1940, Banse 1979)

Geographic Extent

WA/Skagit Bay (1974, Banse 11979; Gallagher et al. 1983); Everett/WA/Steamboat Slough (Puget Sound) (1940, Banse 1979, 48 02 10N, 122 02 50W); Seattle/WA/Kellog Island Passage, Elliot Bay (Cohen et al. 2001); Seattle/WA/Turning Basin, Elliot Bay (Cohen et al. 2001);

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Oyster Accidental

Regional Impacts

Ecological ImpactHabitat Change
The tube building polychaetes Hobsonia florida, Pseudopolydora kempi and taniads (Tanais) sp. (Crustacea, Peracarida) facilitate the recruitment of other taxa to 10 cm-2 azoic patches (Gallagher et al. 1983).
 

References

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