Species Regional Summary
Limnoria tripunctata
_CDA_P058 (San Pedro Channel Islands) ( P058 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Santa Catalina Island/CA/Pacific Ocean (1950, Menzies 1950). This gribble (wood-boring isopod) was long mis-identified as Limnoria lignorum- it was probably widespread on the California coast by the 19th century).

Geographic Extent

Santa Catalina Island/CA/Pacific Ocean (1950, Menzies 1950)

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate None
Alternate Hull Fouling

Regional Impacts

References

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