Species Regional Summary
Homarus americanus
Northern Yucatan, Gulf of Mexico, Florida Straits, to Middle Eastern Florida ( CAR-I )

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Galveston/TX/Gulf of Mexico (1893, Baird 1893, eggs from dead lobsters were planted); In 1893, a shipment of 745 lobsters, including 37 with developing eggs were sent by ship to Galveston, TX. The lobsters all died before reaching their destination, but the eggs were planted in offshore waters (Baird 1893).

Geographic Extent

Galveston/TX/Gulf of Mexico (1893, Baird 1893, eggs from dead lobsters were planted); Naples/FL/Gulf of Mexico (1981, USNM 183787, US National Museum of Natural History 2007, one lobster, washed up on beach)