Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record?: New Zealand/Pacific Ocean (Darwin 1854); "of less certain native status' (Dromgoole and Foster 1983)

Geographic Extent

New Zealand/Pacific Ocean (Darwin 1854); Auckland, North Island/New Zealand/Hauraki Gulf (Jennings 1917, cited by Foster 1967; Dromgoole and Foster 1983); North Island/New Zealand/Waitemata and Whangarei Harbours to Mercury Bay (Hauraki Gulf) (1960, Cranfield et al. 1998)