Invasion

Invasion Description

1st record: British Isles (as Teredo truncata) (1865, Turner 1966)

Geographic Extent

England/Hamble River estuary (1962, thermal discharges, Turner 1966; Coughlan 1977); 'British Channel' (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2003); British Isles (as Teredo truncata) (Turner 1966); Portsmouth/England/Southampton Waters (2002-2007, Borges 2013; Borges et al. 2014- now established and the dominant shipworm)