•Sponges, hydroids, oligochaetes, polychaetes,
bryozoans, amphipods, copepods, shipworms, and ascidians
Cryptogenic
Mollusks,
crustaceans fish, plants, sponges, etc.
But because
of the possibility of introductions 500 years ago, it is difficult to
determine what is native to the region’s marine waters and what is not.We refer to these species as cryptogenic.
