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Fowler, A.E., A.M.H. Blakeslee, A. Davinack, R. Aguilar, M. Anderson, C. Benadon, H.H.C. Choong, L. Green-Gavrielidis, S.R. Greenberg, E. Hartshorn, N. Hobbs, S. Labbe, K. Larson, M. McCuller, D.M. Moloney, S.K. Parsons, C. Stancil, C. Thornber, J. Pederson, and J.T. Carlton. 2025. Caribbean Creep meets Chesapeake Creep: marine bioinvasions and community shifts along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, USA. Biological Invasions 27:192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-025-03646-w.
Reference Details:
Reference Number: 46339
Type: Journal Article
Author: Fowler, A.E., A.M.H. Blakeslee, A. Davinack, R. Aguilar, M. Anderson, C. Benadon, H.H.C. Choong, L. Green-Gavrielidis, S.R. Greenberg, E. Hartshorn, N. Hobbs, S. Labbe, K. Larson, M. McCuller, D.M. Moloney, S.K. Parsons, C. Stancil, C. Thornber, J. Pederson, and J.T. Carlton
Date (year): 2025
Article Title:Caribbean Creep meets Chesapeake Creep: marine bioinvasions and community shifts along the Mid-Atlantic Coast, USA
Journal Name: Biological Invasions
Volume: 27
Issue:
Pages: 192
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Keywords: Aiptasiogeton eruptaurantia, Codium fragile subsp. fragile, Tricellaria inopinata, Bugula neritina, Schizoporella pungens, Caribbean Creep, Chesapeake Creep, community shifts, range shift, range expansion
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-025-03646-w
Species Profiles and Specimens that use this Reference:

Aiptasiogeton eruptaurantia

    VA - Quinby Harbor, Upshur Bay
    VA - VIMS, Wachapreague Channel
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Amathia distans

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Anguinella palmata

    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Barentsia benedeni

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    NJ - Port Monmouth, Sandy Hook Bay

Botrylloides violaceus

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Bugula neritina

    VA - Quinby Harbor, Upshur Bay
    VA - VIMS, Wachapreague Channel
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay
    NJ - Port Monmouth, Sandy Hook Bay

Caprella mutica

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Caprella scaura

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Carcinus maenas

    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet

Cryptosula pallasiana

    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Diadumene lineata

    VA - Quinby Harbor, Upshur Bay
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay
    NJ - Port Monmouth, Sandy Hook Bay

Didemnum vexillum

    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor

Diplosoma listerianum

    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay

Distaplia bermudensis

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet

Ecteinascidia turbinata

    VA - VIMS, Wachapreague Channel
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet

Ficopomatus enigmaticus

    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Gonothyraea loveni

    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay

Hemigrapsus sanguineus

    VA - Quinby Harbor, Upshur Bay
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet

Ianiropsis serricaudis

    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor

Loxothylacus panopaei

    VA - VIMS, Wachapreague Channel

Microdeutopus gryllotalpa

    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay
    NJ - Port Monmouth, Sandy Hook Bay

Obelia dichotoma

    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Styela canopus

    VA - VIMS, Wachapreague Channel
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Styela clava

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    DE - Anglers Marina, Lewes and Rehoboth Canal
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek

Styela plicata

    VA - Quinby Harbor, Upshur Bay
    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay

Synidotea laevidorsalis

    NJ - Port Monmouth, Sandy Hook Bay

Tricellaria inopinata

    VA - Curtis Merritt Harbor, Chincoteague Inlet
    MD - Ocean Pines Marina, Isle of Wight Bay
    DE - Indian River Marina, Indian River Bay
    NJ - Bree-Zee-Lee Marina, Cape May Harbor
    NJ - Blue Water Marina, Crook Horn Creek
    NJ - Key Harbor Marina, Barnegat Bay


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