Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record? Amityville/NY/Long Island Sound (Shoemaker 1947)

Geographic Extent

MA/Georges Bank (USNM 1125719, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2013, 40.6633 , -67.7683); Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Bourne/MA/Buzzards Bay (MIT Sea Grant 2003); New Bedford/MA/Buzzards Bay MIT Sea Grant 2003); Fall River/MA/Mount Hope Bay (MIT Sea Grant 2003);; Amityville/NY/Long Island Sound (Shoemaker 1947); Horse Island, Thimble Islands/CT/Long Island Sound (1963, YPM IZ 036072, Yale Pabody Museum 2015); Off New Jersey /NJ/Atlantic Ocean (USNM : USNM 197835, U.S. National Museum of Natural History 2013, 38.6900; -73.5400), jetties, Lewes/DE/Delaware Bay (Watling and Maurer 1972), sand beaches, Cape Henlopen/Delaware Bay; (Watling and Maurer 1972) oyster bars/DE Mahon River to Broadkill River (Delaware Bay) (Watling and Maurer 1972); Indian River and Rehoboth Bays; (Watling and Maurer 1972) Eastern Shore/VA/Old Plantation Creek & Cherrystone Inlet and Virigina Beach/VA/Lynnhaven - Broad Bays (Dauer et al. 1978); Cape Charles/VA/Chesapeake Bay Dauer et al. 1978); ; Norfolk/VA/Scotts Creek (Ruiz et al. unpublished data)