Least Wanted Aquatic Invaders

Acknowledgements and Credits
The booklet on which these pages are based was prepared by Gregorio Benavides, Danielle Renoud, and Kerstin Wasson, with thoughtful reviews provided by Jim Carlton, Jim Watanabe, Diana Steller, and especially Andy Cohen. September 2002.

Image Credits
Caulerpa: Colloquial Meeting of Marine Biology (www.sbg.ac.at/ipk/avstudio/pierofun/ct/caulerpa.htm);

Wakame: Cyber Aquaculture Text Book: Modern Methods of Aquaculture in Japan (shellfish.cheju.ac.kr/G-SEEDPRO/book/chap26.htm);

Smooth Cordgrass: College of Charleston (www.cofc.edu/lowcountryhall/ guide/lowmarsh.htm)

Spotted Jellyfish: Aquatic Nuisance Species Outreach Project (www.ag.auburn.edu/dept/faa/aumerc/Extension/aquatic_nuisance_species/ANS..html)

Black Sea Jellyfish: ©Dave Wrobel

Mediterranean Fan Worm: ©Sue Papadakos (www.startpoint.gr/sue.htm)

Striped Barnacle: Strand Werk Groep (www.strandwerkgroep.org)

Red Swamp Crayfish: Hawaiian Division of Aquatic Resources (www.hawaii.edu/environment/H1crust.html)

American Lobster: Maine State Museum (www.state.me.us)

Chinese Mitten Crab: Oregon Aquatic Nuisance Management Plan

Harris Mudcrab: Image: Donald E. Keith (www.tarleton.edu/~biology/MudCrab.html); Diagram: ©Gregorio Benavides

Eastern Mud Snail, Channeled Whelk, & Atlantic Ribbed Mussel: Light's Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast (©1975 University Press)

Veined Rapa Whelk: members.xoom.virgilio.it/myzar80/Images/Foto/)

Green Mussel: Image: ©Amy Benson, US Geological Survey; Diagram: ©Richard Willan, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory;

Northern Quahog: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-154 (pubs.usgs.gov/of/of01-154/htmldocs/intro.htm)

False Angelwing: Il Mediterraneo E Le Sua Conchiglie (www.thais.it/conchiglie/mediterraneo/schede/sc_00482.htm)

Winged Oyster: Top: ©2000, Erik D. Erikson (www.cyberphyla.com/bivalvia/); Bottom: ©Lyn Spark (library.thinkquest.org/10236/)

Asian Clam: ©Janet Thompson United States Geological Society (www.fish.wa.gov.au/hab/broc/marineinvader/marine08.html)

Northern Pacific Seastar: NOAA Photo Library; Spaghetti Bryozoan: Image: ©T. Smoyer; Drawing: ©J. Winston American Museum of Natural History (in www.sms.si.edu/IRLSpec/Zoobot_vertic.htm)

Chameleon Goby: Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California (California Fish Bulletin 157, Dept. of Fish and Game)

Diamond Back Terrapin: ©Tommy and Jamie Coy (www.turtletimes.com)
   
 

 

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