Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: Emeryville/CA/San Francisco Bay (1993, Carlton and Cohen 1998);
Geographic Extent
Emeryville/CA/San Francisco Bay (1993, Carlton and Cohen 1998); Taney Marina Beach, Coast Guard Island/CA/Oakland Estuary (1996, Carlton and Cohen 1998); Port of Redwood City/CA/South San Francisco Bay (Miller et al. 2004); Brisbane/CA/Brisbane Lagoon, South San Francisco Bay (2004, Cohen et al. 2005); Coast Guard Island, Oakland/CA/Oakland Estuary (2004, Cohen et al. 2005); Coyote Point Marina/CA/South San Francisco Bay 2004, Cohen et al. 2005);
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Discarded Bait |
| Alternate | Fisheries Accidental (not Oyster) |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Competition | |
| The native periwinkles L. scutulata, L. plena and L. keenae were absent in the vicinity of introduced L. saxatilis populations in San Francisco Bay (Carlton and Cohen 1993). However, the mechanisms for this apparent exclusion have not been studied, to our knowledge. | ||
References
Carlton, James T., Cohen, Andrew N. (1998) Periwinkle's progress: the Atlantic snail Littorina saxatilis (Mollusca: Gastropoda) establishes a colony on a Pacific shore, The Veliger 41(4): 333-338Cohen, Andrew N.; Carlton, James T. (1995) Nonindigenous aquatic species in a United States estuary: a case study of the biological invasions of the San Francisco Bay and Delta, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Sea Grant College Program (Connecticut Sea Grant), Washington DC, Silver Spring MD.. Pp. <missing location>
Kim, Daemin; Taylor, Andrew T.; Near, Thomas J. (2022) Phylogenomics and species delimitation of the economically important Black Basses (Micropterus), Scientific Reports 12(9113): Published online
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-11743-2
Miller, A. Whitman ; Chang, Andrew L.; Cosentino-Manning, N.; Ruiz, Gregory M. (2004) A new record and eradication of the northern Atlantic alga Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyceae) from San Francisco Bay, California., Journal of Phycology 40: 1028-1031
2004 Rough periwinkle, <i>Littorina saxatilis</i>- Eradication of an exotic snail <i>Littorina saxatilis</i> in San Francisco Bay: A model system. http://www.serc.si.edu/labs/marine_invasions/population_ecology/littorina.aspx