Nonindigenous Aquatic Species in a United States Estuary: A Case Study of the Biological Invasions of the San Francisco Bay

and Delta
by

Andrew N. Cohen
and

James T. Carlton

December 1995

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NONINDIGENOUS AQUATIC SPECIES IN A UNITED STATES ESTUARY: A CASE STUDY OF THE BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AND DELTA

Andrew N. Cohen Energy and Resources Group University of California at Berkeley Berkeley California 94720 James T. Carlton Maritime Studies Program Williams CollegeMystic Seaport Mystic Connecticut 06355

A Report for the UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, WASHINGTON D. C. and THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM CONNECTICUT SEA GRANT (NOAA Grant Number NA36RG0467)

December 1995
Additional copies of this report may be ordered from the National Technical Information Service at (703) 487-4650. Report No. PB96-166525

ABSTRACT
The San Francisco Bay/Delta Estuary hosts more nonindigenous species than are known for any other estuary, with 212 established species, 15 species too recently arrived to determine whether they have become established, and 125 cryptogenic species (species which could be either native or introduced). Nonindigenous organisms dominate many habitats, accounting for 40% to 100% of the common species in benthic and fouling communities. On average one new species has become established every 36 weeks since 1850, increasing to one new species every 24 weeks since 1970. Nonidigenous species have altered habitats, disrupted food webs, and contributed to the eradication or reduction of native populations. Some intentionally introduced fish and two accidentally introduced clams supported commercial fisheries that have since declined or closed. Most economic effects have been negative, including over $600 million damage from a wood-boring clam, reduced vessel speed and increased fuel consumption from hull fouling, and costs of controlling nonindigenous plants and fish. Nonindigneous species, by contributing to the endangerment of native species, and by destabilizing and making the ecosystem less manageable, are a factor in increasing restrictions on water diversions, levee maintenance, channel dredging and other economic activities in and near the Estuary.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1. The San Francisco Bay and Delta region is a highly invaded ecosystem. The San Francisco Estuary can now be recognized as the most invaded aquatic ecosystem in North America. Now recognized in the Estuary are 212 introduced species : 69 percent of these are invertebrates, 15 percent are fish and other vertebrates, 12 percent are vascular plants and 4 percent are protists. In the period since 1850, the San Francisco Bay and Delta region has been invaded by an average of one new species every 36 weeks. Since 1970, the rate has been at least one new species every 24 weeks: the first collection records of over 50 non-native species in the Estuary since 1970 thus appear to reflect a significant new pulse of invasions. In addition to the 212 recognized introductions, 123 species are considered as cryptogenic (not clearly native or introduced), and the total number of cryptogenic taxa in the Estuary might well be twice that. Thus simply reporting the documented introductions and assuming that all other species in a region are nativeas virtually all previous studies have doneseverely underestimates the impact of marine and aquatic invasions on a region's biota. Nonindigenous aquatic animals and plants have had a profound impact on the ecology of this region. No shallow water habitat now remains uninvaded by exotic species and, in some regions, it is difficult to find any native species in abundance. In some regions of the Bay, 100% of the common species are introduced, creating "introduced communities." In locations ranging from freshwater sites in the Delta, through Suisun and San Pablo Bays and the shallower parts of the Central Bay to the South Bay, introduced species account for the majority of the species diversity.

2. A vast amount of energy now passes through and is utilized by the nonindigenous biota of the Estuary. In the 1990s, introduced species dominate many of the Estuary's food webs. The major bloom-creating, dominant phytoplankton species are cryptogenic. Because of the poor state of taxonomic and biogeographic knowledge, it remains possible that many of the Estuary's major primary producers that provide the phytoplankton-derived energy for zooplankton and filter feeders, are in fact introduced. Introduced species are abundant and dominant throughout the benthic and fouling communities of San Francisco Bay. These include 10 species of introduced bivalves, most of which are abundant to extremely abundant. Introduced filter-feeding polychaete worms and crustaceans may occur by the thousands per square meter. On sublittoral hard substrates, the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is abundant, while float fouling communities support large populations of introduced filter feeders, including bryozoans, sponges and sea squirts. The holistic role of the entire nonindigenous filter-feeding guildincluding clams, mussels, bryozoans, barnacles, sea squirts, spionid worms, serpulid worms, sponges, hydroids,

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and sea anemonesin altering and controlling the trophic dynamics of the Bay-Delta system remains unknown. The potential role of just one species, the Atlantic ribbed marsh mussel Arcuatula demissa, as a biogeochemical agent in the economy of Bay salt marshes is striking. Introduced clams are capable of filtering the entire volume of the South Bay and the northern estuarine regions (Suisun Bay) once a day: indeed, it now appears that the primary mechanism controlling phytoplankton biomass during summer and fall in South San Francisco Bay is "grazing" (filter feeding) by the introduced Japanese clams Venerupis and Musculista and the Atlantic clam Gemma. This remarkable process has a significant impact on the standing phytoplankton stock in the South Bay, and since this plankton is now utilized almost entirely by introduced filter feeders, passing the energy through a non-native benthic fraction of the biota may have fundamentally altered the energy available for native biota Drought year control of phytoplankton by introduced clamsresulting in the failure of the summer diatom bloom to appear in the northern reach of the Estuaryis a remarkable phenomenon. The introduced Atlantic soft-shell clams (Mya) alone were estimated to be capable at times of filtering all of the phytoplankton from the water column on the order of once per day. Phytoplankton blooms occurred only during higher flow years, when the populations of Mya and other introduced benthic filter feeders retreated downstream to saltier parts of the Estuary. Phytoplankton populations in the northern reaches of the Estuary may now be continuously and permanently controlled by introduced clams. Arriving by ballast water and first collected in the Estuary in 1986, by 1988 the Asian clam Potamocorbula reached and has since sustained average densities exceeding 2,000/m2 . Since the appearance of Potamocorbula, the summer diatom bloom has disappeared, presumably because of increased filter feeding by this new invasion. The Potamocorbula population in the northern reaches of the Estuary can filter the entire water column over the channels more than once per day and over the shallows almost 13 times per day, a rate of filtration which exceeds the phytoplankton's specific growth rate and approaches or exceeds the bacterioplankton's specific growth rate. Further, the Asian clam Potamocorbula feeds at multiple levels in the food chain, consuming bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, and zooplankton (copepods), and so may substantially reduce copepod populations both by depletion of the copepods' phytoplankton food source and by direct predation. In turn, under such conditions, the copepod-eating native opossum shrimp Neomysis may suffer a near-complete collapse in the northern reach. It was during one such pattern that mysid-eating juvenile striped bass suffered their lowest recorded abundance. This example and the linkages between introduced and native species may provide a direct and remarkable example of the potential impact of an introduced species on the Estuary's food webs. As with the guild of filter feeders, the overall picture of the impact of introduced surface-dwelling and shallow-burrowing grazers and deposit feeders in the Estuary is incompletely known. The Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa is likely playing a significantif not the most importantrole in

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altering the diversity, abundance, size distribution, and recruitment of many species on the intertidal mudflats of San Francisco Bay. The arrival and establishment in 1989-90 of the Atlantic green crab Carcinus maenas in San Francisco Bay signals a new level of trophic change and alteration. The green crab is a food and habitat generalist, capable of eating an extraordinarily wide variety of animals and plants, and capable of inhabiting marshes, rocky substrates, and fouling communities. European, South African, and recent Californian studies indicate a broad and striking potential for this crab to significantly alter the distribution, density, and abundance of prey species, and thus to profoundly alter community structure in the Bay. Nearly 30 species of introduced marine, brackish and freshwater fish are now important carnivores throughout the Bay and Delta. Eastern and central American fish -- carp, mosquitofish, catfish, green sunfish, bluegills, inland silverside, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and striped bass -- are among the most significant predators, competitors, and habitat disturbers throughout the brackish and freshwater reaches of the Delta, with often concomitant impacts on native fish communities. The introduced crayfish Procambarus and Pacifastacus may play an important role, when dense, in regulating their prey plant and animal populations. Native waterfowl in the Estuary consume some introduced aquatic plants (such as brass buttons) and native shorebirds feed extensively on introduced benthic invertebrates.

3. Introduced species may be causing profound structural changes to some of the Estuary's habitats. The Atlantic salt-marsh cordgrass Spartina alterniflora, which has converted 100s of acres of mudflats in Willapa Bay, Washington, into grass islands, has become locally abundant in San Francisco Bay, and is competing with the native cordgrass. Spartina alterniflora has broad potential for ecosystem alteration. Its larger and more rigid stems, greater stem density, and higher root densities may decrease habitat for native wetland animals and infauna. Dense stands of S. alterniflora may cause changes in sediment dynamics, decreases in benthic algal production because of lower light levels below the cordgrass canopy, and loss of shorebird feeding habitat through colonization of mudflats.

The Australian-New Zealand boring isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum creates characteristic "Sphaeroma topography" on many Bay shores, with many linear meters of fringing mud banks riddled with its half-centimeter diameter holes. This isopod may arguably play a major, if not the chief, role in erosion of intertidal soft rock terraces along the shore of San Pablo Bay, due to their boring activity that weakens the rock and facilitates its removal by wave action. Sphaeroma has been burrowing into Bay shores for over a century, and it thus may be that in certain regions the land/water margin has retreated by a distance of at least several meters due to this isopod's boring activities. 4. While no introduction in the Estuary has unambiguously caused the extinction of a native species, introductions have led to the complete habitat or regional extirpation of species, have contributed to the global extinction of a California

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freshwater fish, and are now strongly contributing to the further demise of endangered marsh birds and mammals. Introduced freshwater and anadromous fish have been directly implicated in the regional reduction and extinction, and the global extinction, of four native California fish. The bluegill, green sunfish, largemouth bass, striped bass, and black bass, through predation and through competition for food and breeding sites, have all been associated with the regional elimination of the native Sacramento perch from the Delta. The introduced inland silversides may be a significant predator on the larvae and eggs of the native Delta smelt. Expansion of the introduced smallmouth bass has been associated with the decline in the native hardhead. Predation by largemouth bass, smallmouth black bass and striped bass may have been a major factor in the global extinction of the thicktail chub in California. The situation of the California clapper rail may serve as a model to assess how an endangered species may be affected by biological invasions. The rail suffers predation by introduced Norway rats and red fox; it may both feed on and be killed by introduced mussels; and it may find refuge in introduced cordgrass, although this same cordgrass may compete with native cordgrass, perhaps preferred by the rail. Other potential model study systems include introduced crayfish and their displacement of native crayfish; introduced gobies and their relationship to the tidewater goby; and the combined role that introduced green sunfish, bluegill, largemouth bass, and American bullfrog may have played in the dramatic decline of native red-legged and yellow-legged frogs.

5. Though the economic impacts of introduced organisms in the San Francisco Estuary are substantial, they are poorly quantified. Although some of the fish intentionally introduced into the Estuary by government agencies supported substantial commercial food fisheries, these fisheries all declined after a time and are now closed. The signal crayfish, Pacifastacus, from Oregon, whose exact means of introduction is unclear, supports the Estuary's only remaining commercial food fishery based on an introduced species. The striped bass sport fishery has resulted in a substantial transfer of funds from anglers to those who supply anglers' needs, variously estimated, between 1962 and 1992, between $7 million and $45 million per year. However, striped bass populations and the striped bass sport fishery have declined dramatically in recent years. Government introductions of organisms for sport fishing, as forage fish and for biocontrol have frequently not produced the intended benefits, and have sometimes had harmful "side effects," such as reducing the populations of economically important species. Few nonindigenous organisms that were introduced to the Estuary by other than government intent have produced economic benefits. The clams Mya and Venerupis, both accidentally introduced with oysters, have supported commercial harvesting in the Bay or elsewhere on the Pacific coast, and a small amount of recreational harvesting in the Bay (though these clams may have, to some extent, replaced edible native clams); the Asian clam Corbicula

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is commercially harvested for food and bait in California on a small scale; the Asian yellowfin goby is commercially harvested for bait; muskrat are trapped for furs; and the South African marsh plant brass buttons provides food for waterfowl. There do not appear to be any other significant economic benefits that derive from nongovernmental or accidental introductions to the Estuary. A single introduced organism, the shipworm Teredo navalis, caused $615 million (in 1992 dollars) of structural damage to maritime facilities in 3 years in the early part of the 20th century. The economic impacts of hull fouling and other ship fouling are clearly very large, but are not documented or quantified for the Estuary. Most of the fouling incurred in the Estuary is due to nonindigenous species. Indirect impacts due to the use of toxic anti-fouling coatings may also be substantial. Waterway fouling by introduced water hyacinth has become a problem in the Delta over the last fifteen years, with other introduced plants beginning to add to the problem in recent years. Hyacinth fouling has had significant economic impacts, including interference with navigation. Perhaps the greatest economic impacts may derive from the destabilizing of the Estuary's biota due to the introduction and establishment of an average of one new species every 24 weeks. This phenomenal rate of species additions has contributed to the failure of water users and regulatory agencies to manage the Estuary so as to sustain healthy populations of anadromous and native fish, resulting in increasing limitations and threats of limitations on water diversions, wastewater discharges, channel dredging, levee maintenance, construction and other economic activities in and near the Estuary, with implications for the whole of California's economy.

RESEARCH NEEDS
Much remains unknown in terms of the phenomena, patterns, and processes of invasions in the Bay and Delta, and thus large gaps remain in the knowledge needed to establish effective management plans. The following are examples of important research needs and directions: 1. Experimental Ecology of Invasions Only a few of the hundreds of invaders in the Estuary have been the subject of quantitative experimental studies elucidating their roles in the Estuary's ecosystem and their impacts on native biota. Such studies should receive the highest priority.

2. Regional Shipping Study Urgently required is a San Francisco Bay Shipping Study which both updates the 1991 data base available and expands that data base to all Bay and Delta ports. A biological and ecological study of the nature of ballast water biota arriving in the Bay/Delta system is urgently required. Equally pressing is a study of

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the fouling organisms entering the Estuary on ships' hulls and in ships' seachests, in order to assess whether this mechanism is now becoming of increasing importance and in order to more adequately define the unique role of ballast water. A Regional Shipping Study would provide critical data for management plans. 3. Intraregional Human-Mediated Dispersal Vectors Studies are required on the mechanisms and the temporal and spatial scales of the distribution of introduced species by human vectors after they have become established. Such studies will be of particular value in light of any future introductions of nuisance aquatic pests. 4. Study of the Baitworm and Lobster Shipping Industries This study has identified a major, unregulated vector for exotic species invasions in the Bay: the constant release of invertebrate-laden seaweeds from New England in association with bait worm (and lobster) importation. In addition a new trade in exotic bait has commenced, centered around the importation of living Vietnamese nereid worms, and both the worms and their substrate deserve detailed study. These studies are urgently needed to address the attendant precautionary management issues at hand. 5. Molecular Genetic Studies of Invaders The application of modern molecular genetic techniques has already revealed the cryptic presence of previously unrecognized invaders in the Bay: the Atlantic clam Macoma petalum, the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, and the Japanese jellyfish Aurelia "aurita." Molecular genetic studies of the Bay's new green crab (Carcinus) population may be of critical value in resolving the crab's geographic origins and thus the mechanism that brought it to California. Molecular genetic studies of worms of the genus Glycera and Nereis in the Bay may clarify if New England populations have or are becoming established in the region as a result of ongoing inoculations via the bait worm industry. Molecular analysis of other invasions will doubtless reveal, as with Macoma and Mytilus, a number of heretofore unrecognized species. 6. Increased Utilization of Exotic Species Fishery, bait, and other utilization studies should be conducted on developing or enlarging the scope of fisheries for introduced bivalves (such as Mya, Venerupis, and Corbicula), edible aquatic plants, smaller edible fish (such as Acanthogobius), and crabs (Carcinus and Eriocheir). 7. Potential Zebra Mussel Invasion Studies are needed on the potential distribution, abundance and impacts of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and/or D. bugensis) in California, to support efforts to control their introduction and to design facilities (such as water intakes and fish screens) that will continue to function adequately should the mussels become established. 8. Economic Impacts of Wood Borers and Fouling Organisms The economic impacts of wood-boring organisms (shipworms and gribbles) and of fouling organisms (on commercial vessels, on recreational craft, in ports and marinas, and in water conduits) are clearly very large in the San Francisco Estuary,

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but remain largely undocumented and entirely unquantified. A modern economic study of this phenomenon, including the economic costs and ecological impacts of control measures now in place or forecast, is critically needed. 9. Economic, Ecological and Geological Impacts of Bioeroding Nonindigenous Species Largely qualitative data suggest that the economic, ecological, and geological impacts of the guild of burrowing organisms that have been historically and newly introduced have been or are forecast to potentially be extensive in the Estuary. Experimental, quantitative studies on the impacts of burrowing and bioeroding crustaceans and muskrats in the Estuary are clearly now needed to assess the extent of changes that have occurred or are now occurring, and to form the basis for predicting future alterations in the absence of control measures. 10. Post-Invasion Control Mechanisms While primary attention must be paid to preventing future invasions, studies should begin on examining the broad suite of potential post-invasion control mechanisms, including biocontrol, physical containment, eradication, and related strategies. A Regional Control Mechanisms Workshop for past and anticipated invasions could set the foundation for future research directions.

CONTENTS
1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Introduced Species in the Estuary 4. Cryptogenic Species in the Estuary 5. Results By Taxonomic Group By Native Region By Time Period By Transport Mechanism 6. Discussion Ecological Impacts Economic Impacts Future Invasions 7. Conclusions Major Findings Research Needs References 1 4 10 149 154 154 155 157 160 167 167 190 202 210 210 215 218

Appendix 1A. Introduced Terrestrial Plants, Birds and Mammals Reported from the San Francisco Estuary Appendix 1B. Descriptions of Introduced Terrestrial Plants Reported from the San Francisco Estuary

Appendix 1C. Descriptions of Introduced Terrestrial Mammals Reported from the San Francisco Estuary Appendix 2. Appendix 3. Appendix 4. Appendix 5. Earlier Inoculations into the San Francisco Estuary and Nearby Waters Descriptions of Introduced Plants and Invertebrates in Areas Adjacent to the San Francisco Estuary Introduced Organisms in the Northeastern Pacific Known only from the San Francisco Estuary or its Watershed Introduced Marine, Estuarine and Aquatic Organisms in Four Regional Studies

TABLES AND FIGURES Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Table 4. Table 5. Table 6. Table 7. Table 8. Table 9. Table 10. Introduced organisms in the San Francisco Estuary Cryptogenic species in the San Francisco Estuary Treatment of introduced species as marine or continental, for analysis by native region 141 150 156

Associations of introduced species in the San Francisco Estuary 170 Patterns of invasion along the salinity gradient in the San Francisco Estuary and the adjoining coast Positive economic impacts of marine, estuarine and aquatic organisms introduced into the San Francisco Estuary 180 191

Negative economic impacts of introduced marine, estuarine and aquatic organisms 196 Recent records of nonindigenous species in the San Francisco Estuary whose establishment is uncertain 203

Introduced species in adjacent areas with the potential to invade the San Francisco Estuary 205 Examples of ongoing inoculations of nonindigenous species into the San Francisco Estuary 207 The San Francisco Estuary Invasions by taxonomic group: lower-level aggregation Invasions by taxonomic group: higher-level aggregation Invasions by native region Invasions into the San Francisco Estuary by period Invasions into the Northeastern Pacific by period Invasions by type of transport mechanism Some examples of damage caused by the wood-boring shipworm Teredo navalis in the San Francisco Estuary 5 154 155 157 159 159 161 194

Figure 1. Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Figure 5. Figure 6. Figure 7. Figure 8.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Scores of individuals, scientists, agency representatives and members of the public assisted us with the compilation of the species records in this report. We gratefully acknowledge these workers for their contributions in the appropriate portion of the text. Members of the First (October 1993) and Second (July 1994) San Francisco Bay Expeditions (John Chapman, Jean Chapman, Sarah Cohen, Terry Gosliner, Claudia Mills, Luis Solarzano and John Rees) were of inestimable help in our field and subsequent systematic work. John Chapman spent many hours working over recent collections of San Francisco Bay peracarid crustaceans to resolve the status of numerous amphipods and isopods. Gretchen Lambert identified several sets of ascidians from the Bay, and William Banta and Marianne DiMarco-Temkin aided with the identification of bryozoans. Gary Gillingham (Kinnetic Laboratories, Inc., Santa Cruz), Mike Kellogg (City and County of San Francisco), Heather Peterson (California Department of Water Resources) and Jan Thompson (U. S. Geological Survey) provided extensive species list from benthic surveys under their respective aegises. James Orsi (California Department of Fish and Game) provided assistance in our research on zooplankton and Doris Sloan (University of California) on foraminifera.

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CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
Over the past four centuries thousands of species of fresh water, brackish water and salt water animals and plants have been introduced to the United States (Elton, 1958; Carlton, 1979a, 1989, 1992b; Moyle, 1986; Hickman, 1993; Carlton & Geller, 1993). In some regions, such as the Hawaiian Islands, aboriginal introductions date back more than two millennia (Mooney & Drake, 1986). The taxonomic, habitat and trophic range of this vast nonindigenous biota is impressiveranging from exotic flatworms (Rectocephala exotica) in the lily ponds of Washington, D. C., to Mexican crabs (Platychirograpsus spectabilis ) in Florida rivers, to aquatic rodents such as the South American nutria (Myocaster coypu) in the southern United States. The human role in changing the face of North America, in terms of the abundance and diversity of the animals and plants of lakes, rivers, estuaries, marshes, and coastlines, has been demonstratively profound: Sea lampreys (Petromyzon marinus) invaded the Great Lakes, destroying extensive native fisheries; the Eurasian carp (Cyprinus carpio), released in New York in 1831, is now a national pest; Nevada's Ash Meadows killifish (Empetrichthys merriami) became extinct at the hands of introduced mosquitofish, mollies, crayfish, and bullfrogs; and scores of exotic fish species now dominate aquatic habitats from Florida to New York and from the Atlantic drainage to California. Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) spread across all of North America in only 40 years, moving from west to eastfrom the Columbia River to California and then quickly across the southern United States to the Atlantic seaboard, a dramatic and startling invasion of this canal- and pipe-fouling clam (McMahon, 1982). Fifty years later, European zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis) are similarly spreading across North Americathis time from east to west, from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi and into Oklahoma. Alien plantsincluding the spectacularly successful purple loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and water chestnut (Trapa natans)are now the dominant, and at times the only, vegetation, for hundreds of square miles of aquatic and marsh habitats in North America. Despite these many invasions, there are with rare exception no syntheses of the spatial and temporal patterns, mechanisms or impacts of these nonindigenous aquatic and estuarine organisms. For the great majority of invasions, records are scattered among thousands of scientific papers and buried in general monographs, student theses, government reports, consultant studies and anecdotal accounts. While a comprehensive review of freshwater and marine invasions would be extraordinarily useful, an initial approach to understanding the ecological and economic impacts of nonindigenous animals and plants in U. S. aquatic and marine environments may be attained through case studies: the assessment of the role of invasions in defined geographic regions, focusing on historical and modern-day dispersal pathways, on the biological, ecological and economic consequences of invasions, and on prospects for future invasions. We present here such a regional study, focusing on one of the largest freshwater and estuarine ecosystems of the United States: the San Francisco Bay and Delta region, a region known to have sustained numerous invasions for over a century.

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(A) PRIOR STATE OF KNOWLEDGE

At the time of our study there was no synthesis available of the diversity and impacts of the nonindigenous aquatic and estuarine species of the San Francisco Bay and Delta region, an area that extends from the inland port cities of the Central Valley to the coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean at the Golden Gate. This region includes examples of most of the common aquatic habitats found throughout the warm and cool temperate climates of the United States and, as such, represents an ideal theater for assessing the diversity and range of effects of aquatic invasions. Within the Bay-Delta Region are fresh, brackish, and salt water marshes, sandflats and mudflats, rocky shores, benthic sublittoral habitats of a wide sediment range, eelgrass beds, emergent aquatic macrophyte communities, planktonic, nektonic, and neustonic communities, extensive fouling assemblages, and communities of burrowing and boring organisms in clays and wood. Also represented is a vast range of habitat disturbance regimes. Over a 140-year period of substantial human commercial and other activitiessince about 1850a minimum of more than 200 plants, protists and animals from the aquatic and coastal habitats of eastern North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America have invaded these ecosystems. Prior lists or descriptions of the introduced freshwater, anadromous and estuarine fish fauna in the San Francisco Bay-Delta region were provided by Moyle (1976b) and McGinnis (1984); of freshwater mollusks by Hanna (1966) and Taylor (1981); of marine mollusks by Nichols et al. (1986); and of introduced marine and estuarine invertebrates by Carlton (1975, 1979a,b), supplemented by Carlton et al. (1990). Silva (1979) and Josselyn & West (1985) noted some introductions of marine and brackish seaweeds, but no comprehensive assessment of possibly introduced seaweeds had been made. Atwater et al. (1979) provided a list of introduced vascular plants in San Francisco Bay salt marshes, but appear not to have distinguished between aquatic plants that are characteristically found within marshes and essentially terrestrial plants that are occasionally found at the edges of or within marshes. During our study the Bay-Delta Oversight Committee of the California Department of Water Resources produced a briefing paper summarizing some of the previously published information on introduced fish, wildlife and plants of the Bay-Delta region (BDOC, 1994), and Orsi (1995) published a list of introduced estuarine copepods and mysids. No information had been compiled on possible introductions among freshwater invertebrates (including species of freshwater sponges, jellyfish, flatworms, oligochaete and polychaete worms, snails, clams, crustaceans, insects and bryozoans), freshwater macroalgae, or fresh, brackish or salt water phytoplankton. Protozoan introductions had been similarly neglected. Based on the information available prior to our study, and on consideration of extant lists of aquatic or marine introductions in other regions (Leppkoski, 1984; den Hartog, 1987; Mills et al., 1993, 1995; Jansson, 1994), we had estimated that the number of aquatic and estuarine introductions in the Bay-Delta system could exceed 150 invertebrate species, 20 fish species, 10 algal species, and 100 vascular plant species.

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(B) CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PRESENT STUDY

The present work is the first regional case study in the United States of the diversity and ecological and economic impacts of nonindigenous species in aquatic and estuarine habitats. Previous studies (Mills et al., 1993, for the Great Lakes; Mills et al., 1996, for the Hudson River) have largely concentrated on species check-lists with a minimal review of ecological or economic effects of the exotic biota. We intend the present study to be a comprehensive synthesis which may serve as a comparative model for other regional studies in U. S. waters. The present study also sets forth detailed and clear criteria for determining which species are present and established within the study zone. Prior regional surveys of aquatic introductions have implied but rarely defined these criteria, a situation that impedes ready quantitative comparisons between regions. We include (Chapter 5) a supplemental list of vascular plant species based upon criteria which we judge to approximate the criteria in prior regional surveys of aquatic introductions in the USA, in order to facilitate such comparisons. The present study is also the first regional survey of introductions to include a listing (although preliminary) of cryptogenic speciesspecies which are neither demonstrably native or introduced (Chapter 4). As discussed by Carlton (1996a), the development of such lists is a necessary first step in correcting prior tendencies to profoundly underestimate the potential extent of biological invasions and in providing a more complete basis for understanding the sources, characteristics and frequency of success of biological invaders. Both older (Elton, 1958) and newer (e. g. Mooney & Drake, 1986; Drake et al., 1989) reviews of biological invasions propose a number of theoretical models to explain the success of animal and plant invasions in regions where they did not evolve. However, for most such studies, comprehensive data sets on the diversity of invasions, temporal patterns of invasion, and ecological impacts have not been available by which to test the applicability or robustness of invasion theory. The present study provides an extensive review of an introduced biota exceeding 200 taxa in a defined geographic region, and thus provides a rare data set with which to test invasion models.

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CHAPTER 2. METHODS (A) DEFINITIONS

1. STUDY ZONE The study zone for this report is defined as the estuarine and aquatic habitats that are within the normal range of tidal influence in San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and tributaries, and referred to herein as the San Francisco Estuary or the Estuary (Fig. 1). The primary data set (Chapter 3 and Table 1) contains all demonstrably nonindigenous organisms that are characteristically found in estuarine or aquatic habitats (including marshes, mudflats, etc.), and for which there is significant evidence supporting their establishment within the study zone. 2. PRIMARY DATA SET: INTRODUCED SPECIES IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY Inclusion in the primary data set thus requires evidence demonstrating that the organism in question is (1) not native to the Estuary, and (2) currently established in the Estuary. We define native organisms as those organisms present aboriginally, which for the Bay-Delta region means prior to 1769 when the first European explorers entered the area. The types of evidence that we utilized to determine the native versus introduced status of aquatic and estuarine organisms, as discussed by Carlton (1979a) and Chapman & Carlton (1991, 1994), include: global systematic evidence (involving taxonomic information from both morphology and molecular genetics) and biogeographic evidence, including the global distribution of closely related species; the existence of identifiable mechanisms of human-mediated transport; historical evidence of presence or absence; archaeological evidence of presence or absence; paleontological evidence of presence or absence; the extent to which distribution can be explained by natural dispersal mechanisms; rapid or sudden changes in abundance or distribution; highly restricted or anomalously disjunct distributions (in comparison to distributions of known native organisms); occurrence in assemblages with other known introduced species; and for parasites or commensals, occurrence on introduced organisms. We define established organisms as those organisms present and reproducing "in the wild" whose numbers, distribution and persistence over time suggest that, barring unforeseen catastrophic events or successful eradication efforts, they will continue to be present in the future. "In the wild" implies reproduction and persistence of the population without direct human intervention or assistance (such

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Figure 1. The San Francisco Estuary

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as reproductive assistance via hatcheries or periodic renewal of the population through the importation of spat), but may include dependence on human-altered or created habitats, such as water bodies warmed by the cooling-water effluent from power plants, pilings, floating docks, and salt ponds or other manipulated, semi-enclosed lagoons. The types of evidence that we used to assess establishment include: population size; persistence of the population over time; distribution (broad or restricted) of the population, and trends in distribution; for species dependent on sexual reproduction, the presence of both males and females, and the presence of ovigerous females; and the age structure of the population as an indicator of successful reproduction. 3. OTHER DATA SETS Beyond the primary data set, we considered and compiled information on several additional categories of organisms, including: cryptogenic organisms, that is, organisms in the Estuary that are neither demonstrably native nor introduced (Table 2); nonindigenous organisms that have been reported from or were intentionally introduced to the Estuary, but which did not become established or for which there is inadequate evidence regarding their establishment (Table 8 and Appendix 2); nonindigenous organisms which are established in aquatic environments tributary to or adjacent to the Estuary, and which may in the future extend their range into the Estuary (Table 9); nonindigenous organisms which are not characteristically found in estuarine or aquatic habitats but which have been occasionally reported from or may make occasional use of the Estuary (Appendix 1). Probably the largest and most difficult "gray zone" between the primary data set and organisms in these additional categories involves those nonindigenous plants reported from coastal or freshwater wetlands for which specific information on occurrence within the tidal boundaries of the Estuary is not available. Although previous regional studies of aquatic invasions (Mills et al., 1993, 1995) have included many such gray-zone plants, we limited inclusion in our primary data set to those that both: (a) have habitat descriptions indicating that they are primarily marsh plants, and not primarily terrestrial or moist ground plants occasionally found in or near marshes; and (b) have been reported specifically from the Delta, and not just from the Central Valley or the Bay Area generally. Similar questions arose, though less commonly, with other types of organisms, to which we applied similar logic. Those candidate organisms which are not listed in Table 1 because of criterion (a), are instead listed in Appendix 1. Adding the plants in Appendix 1 to the organisms in Table 1 would produce a list of nonindigenous organisms for the Estuary comparable those produced for the Great Lakes (Mills et al., 1993) and the Hudson River (Mills et al., 1995), as discussed further in Chapter 5. Candidate organisms which failed to meet criterion (b) are listed in Table 9. Even following these restrictive criteria, we may have included in Table 1 some plants that are found in the Delta region in marshes or diked ponds, but not in tidal waters.

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(B) DATA SOURCES AND PRESENTATION

Initial lists of taxa in the above-described categories were compiled from the prior studies discussed in the introduction and from a review of the regional biological and systematic literature including regional monographic studies, keys, field guides and checklists; from published (mainly in the gray literature) and unpublished species lists generated by public agencies and private consultants; and from discussions with taxonomists, field biologists, refuge managers and consultants familiar with the region. Further information on the species thus identified was developed through a review of the pertinent current and historical biological literature, museum records and specimen collections, and interviews with biologists. We also undertook limited field work in order to check the presence or distribution of certain species, and to check for the presence of previously unreported species in some rarely sampled habitats. This information was used to develop the following species lists: Table 1, listing introduced species in the Estuary; Table 2, listing cryptogenic species in the Estuary; Table 8, listing species recently recorded from the Estuary but whose establishment is uncertain; Table 9 and Appendix 3, listing introduced species in adjacent aquatic habitats; Appendix 1, listing terrestrial species that may occasionally be found in the Estuary; Appendix 2, listing older inoculations of nonindigenous species that did not become established; and Appendix 4, listing introduced species in the northeastern Pacific known only from the Estuary. For each species listed in Table 1 we determined where possible: the date of first collection or observation or planting in the Estuary, in California and in northeastern Pacific waters or coastal states or provinces; and where this was unavailable, the date of the first written account of the organism in the area; the native range of the species; the immediate geographic source of the introduction; the transport mechanism; the organism's current taxonomic status, most frequently utilized synonyms, and common names; and its current spatial distribution and abundance in the Estuary. We included common names from Turgeon et al. (1988) and Carlton (1992) for mollusks, Cairns et al. (1991) for coelenterates, Williams et al. (1989) for decapods, Gosner (1978) for other invertebrates, Robins et al. (1991) for fish and Hickman (1983) for higher plants. The data are presented in the species descriptions in Chapter 3 and summarized (in large part) in Table 1. Some of these data are also provided for the species listed in Tables 8 and 9 and the appendices. We also reviewed the available information on the ecological roles and economic impacts of individual introduced species and of introduced species assemblages. This information is summarized in the species descriptions in Chapter 3 and discussed in Chapter 6.

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(C) ANALYSIS
The primary data set in Chapter 3 and Table 1 was quantitatively analyzed with regard to taxonomic groups, native regions, timing and transport mechanisms. The results are presented in Chapter 5. 1. TAXONOMY The numbers of species per taxonomic group were tabulated at two levels of aggregation. A first tabulation was done at the taxonomic levels of order (for vertebrates), phylum (for invertebrates), subkingdom (for plants) and kingdom (for protozoans). A second, more highly-aggregated, tabulation was done at the levels of class (vertebrates), a traditional, non-phyletic grouping (invertebrates), and kingdom (plants and protozoans). 2. NATIVE REGION The numbers of species per native region were tabulated with regard to eleven marine regions and five continental regions. The marine regions consist of the eastern and western portions of the North and South Atlantic oceans and the North and South Pacific oceans, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black and Caspian Seas. The Western South Pacific region consists primarily of waters around Australia and New Zealand. The five continental regions consist of North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, and Australia/New Zealand. Where an organism's native range included more than one region, that organism's count was split proportionally. 3. TIMING We analyzed the timing of introductions in terms of both the date of first record in the Estuary, and the date of first record in the northeastern Pacific. The numbers of species were tabulated in four 30-year periods with the first beginning in 1850 and the last ending in 1969, and one 26-year period (1970-1995). In the few cases where an organism's date of first record was a period that spanned parts of two tabulation periods, that organism's count was proportionally divided between the periods. We distinguished two different types of dates of first record. The first and preferred type is the date of initial planting or first observation or collection of the species in the area. Where this was unavailable, we reported the earliest date available (date of writing, submission or publication) of the first written account of the species in the area. In Table 1, dates of first written account are preceded by the symbol '', meaning that the date of first planting, observation or collection was on or before (in some cases, perhaps a considerable time before) the indicated date. Dates of first written account were excluded from the quantitative analysis. We also excluded from the analysis those dates of first record that we judged to be a clear artifact of collecting bias, or a fortuitous discovery of a species in a restricted habitat or locality, and whose inclusion would have contributed to a misleading picture of the temporal pattern of invasions in the Estuary. This is discussed further in Chapter 5 under "Results." These dates are marked by asterisks (*) in Table 1.

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4. TRANSPORT MECHANISMS We analyzed the stocks of organisms that have been introduced to the Estuary in terms of the transport mechanisms (also called "transport vectors," "means of introduction" and "dispersal mechanisms") that brought them to the northeastern Pacific. We utilized thirteen categories of mechanisms, as defined in Table 1 and discussed in Chapter 5 under "Results." Where multiple possible transport mechanisms were determined for an organism, that organism's count was divided proportionally among the possible mechanisms.

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CHAPTER 3. INTRODUCED SPECIES IN THE ESTUARY PLANTS

SEAWEEDS Chlorophyta Bryopsis sp. [CODIALES] Silva (1979) reported an unidentified species of Bryopsis which only reproduces asexually in the Bay and which he described as exhibiting weedy behavior: developing explosively and frequently being cast ashore in large quantities, creating a nuisance as it decomposes. It has been observed in the Bay since at least 1951, from Alameda to Richmond on the East Bay shore and at Coyote Point. Bryopsis occurs in ship fouling (pers. obs.) and, in concert with the other introduced seaweeds, we tentatively suggest ship fouling as the mechanism of introduction. Codium fragile tomentosoides (Suringar, 1867) Hariot, 1889 [CODIALES] DEAD MAN'S FINGERS, SPUTNIK WEED, OYSTER THIEF Codium fragile is native to the northern Pacific, and is found in North America on exposed coasts from Alaska to Baja California (Abbot & Hollenberg, 1976). The weedy subspecies C. f. tomentosoides is native to Japan (where it is eaten) and was introduced to Europe in the nineteenth century and to New York, probably as ship fouling, around 1956, subsequently spreading north to Maine and south to North Carolina (Carlton & Scanlon, 1985; includes discussion of coastal transport mechanisms). It was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1977, probably introduced as ship fouling (Carlton et al., 1990), and as of 1985 not reported from any other site in the northeastern Pacific (Carlton & Scanlon, 1985). In San Francisco Bay C. f. tomentosoides is common intertidally and subtidally attached to rocks, seawalls, piers and floating docks. Josselyn & West (1985) report it as common (found 60-100% of the time) at Coyote Point, and frequent (30-60%) at Redwood City, Palo Alto. In 1993-94 we found it on floating docks in the East Bay from Richmond to San Leandro and at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

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Phaeophyta Sargassum muticum (Yendo, 1907) Fensholt, 1955 [FUCALES] Sargassum muticum is a Japanese species which was first collected in North America in 1944 in British Columbia, apparently introduced in shipments of Japanese oyster spat (Crassostrea gigas), and subsequently spread both north and south into protected waters. It was reported from Coos Bay in 1947, Crescent City in 1963 and Santa Catalina Island in 1970, and is now found at scattered sites from Alaska to Baja California (Abbott & Hollenberg, 1976; Silva, 1979). It was introduced to Europe in the early 1970s, apparently also in shipments of Japanese oyster spat (Druehl, 1973; Critchley, 1983; Danek, 1984). S. muticum was first observed in San Francisco Bay by Silva on the riprap at the entrance to the Berkeley Marina in 1973. It has been reported on the pilings of the Golden Gate Bridge, in the San Francisco Yacht Harbor, on the inside breakwater at Fort Baker, at Angel Island, Sausalito and the Tiburon Peninsula, on the east side of Yerba Buena Island, at Crown Beach in Alameda, and from Albany and Richmond (Silva, 1979; Danek, 1984). Josselyn & West (1985) found it commonly (60-100% of the time) at Tiburon Peninsula and infrequently (5-30%) at Twin Sisters. In San Francisco Bay S. muticum appears to be restricted to low intertidal areas with hard substrate and moderate to high salinity. Germlings grow at salinities down to 10 ppt (to 20 ppt according to Norton (1977)), but maximum survival is at 25-30 ppt salinity. Low salinities and storms eliminated the Tiburon population in the winter and spring of 1983 (Danek, 1984). S. muticum was more abundant at Crown Beach, Alameda during the drought years of 1990-91 than it is at present (pers. obs.). Both lateral branches and fertile fronds of S. muticum break off regularly and float and disperse by currents and wind drift, surviving afloat for up to 3 months, and can initiate new populations (Danek, 1984). Danek (1984) reports that "in Britain S. muticum has become the dominant species at low tide levels, and is a successful competitor against indigenous species such as Cystoseira and Laminaria...it forms large floating mats (Fletcher & Fletcher, 1975) causing problems for fishermen and small boat navigation." An eradication program in England was "largely unsuccessful" (Silva, 1979). In Canada, Druehl (1973) considers it to be replacing populations of Zostera in some places, and Dudley & Collins (1995) report that it has become a dominant intertidal species in the Channel Islands and Santa Barbara area. However, Silva (1979) states that "there is no evidence that S. muticum is displacing the native biota of San Francisco Bay."

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Rhodophyta Callithamnion byssoides Arnott [CERAMIALES] Callithamnion byssoides is native to the northwestern Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Florida (Taylor, 1957). It was not listed in Silva's (1979) review of Central Bay benthic algae, but Josselyn & West (1985) found it attached to rocks "near MLLW throughout the northern and southern reaches of the bay" in collections between 1978 and 1983. They report it as frequent (found 30-60% of the time) at Redwood City, Palo Alto and China Camp, and infrequent (5-30%) at Tiburon Peninsula, Point Pinole and Crockett. Callithamnion species are common fouling species (WHOI, 1952). C. byssoides may have been transported to San Francisco Bay as ship fouling, or possibly with the algae used to pack New England bait worms or lobster. Polysiphonia denudata (Dillwyn) Ktzing [CERAMIALES] Polysiphonia denudata is native to the Atlantic coast from Prince Edward Island to Florida and the tropics, commonly occurring in tide pools and in shallow bays attached to rocks, shells and wharves (Taylor, 1957). It was not listed by Silva (1979) in his review of Central Bay benthic algae, but Josselyn & West (1985) reported it as a "common drift algae during summer months, especially in South San Francisco Bay" (citing Cloern, pers. comm.), and as drift or epiphytic in both San Pablo Bay and South Bay in collections between 1978 and 1983. They further suggest that "the extensive decaying mats observed by Nichols (1979) in Palo Alto during the summer of 1975" may have been P. denudata. We (JTC) observed a sometimes abundant Polysiphonia, which we presume to have been P. denudata, in Lake Merritt, Oakland in 1963-64. Polysiphonia species are common fouling species or artificial structures, including ships (WHOI, 1952; Fletcher et al., 1984), and a species of Polysiphonia was the organism most tolerant of copper- and mercury-based anti-fouling compounds in tests in Florida (Weiss, 1947), suggesting that P. denudata probably arrived in San Francisco Bay as hull fouling, although introduction by ballast water is possible. Josselyn & West (1985) reported P. denudata as frequent (30-60% of the time) at Point Pinole, and infrequent (530%) at stations on the western shore of the South Bay, on the Marin shore, and at Crockett. It apparently reproduces asexually in San Francisco Bay, and is not reported from other Pacific coast estuaries (M. Josselyn, pers. comm., 1985).

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VASCULAR PLANTS Dicotyledones Chenopodium macrospermum J. D. Hooker var. halophilum (Philippi) Standley [CHENOPODIACEAE] SYNONYMS: Chenopodium macrospermum J. D. Hooker var. farinosum (Watson) Howell Probably native to South America, this plant is found in wet places and marshes at low elevations between Orange County and Washington state, including the coastal California (Munz, 1959) the San Francisco Bay Area and the Delta (Hickman, 1993). Cotula coronopifolia Linnaeus, 1753 [ASTERACEAE] BRASS BUTTONS Brass buttons is a native of South Africa that has become established along the Pacific coast from California to British Columbia, and is reported as adventive in New England (Peck, 1941; Muenscher, 1944; Steward et al., 1963). In 1878, Lockington (1878) reported it as an introduced plant common in wet places on the San Francisco peninsula. As it was likely to have spread to the Bay's littoral zone by around that time, we have taken 1878 as the date of first observation in the Estuary. It was probably introduced in ships' ballast (as suggested by Spicher & Josselyn, 1985). In California brass buttons has variously been reported as common in salt and freshwater marshes along the coast (Robbins et al., 1941; Mason, 1957; Munz 1959; Hickman, 1993), as present in San Francisco Bay saltmarshes (Jepson, 1951), as common in wet places near high-tide levels in the tidal marshes around Suisun Bay (Atwater et al., 1979), and as uncommon in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). A 1981 aerial survey of Suisun Marsh classified 3,800 acres, or 5% of the area surveyed, as Cotula habitat (Wernette, 1986), and in 1989 it was found at 18 of 48 sites. Along with alkali bulrush, saltgrass or fat hen, brass buttons comprised the principal vegetation at two sites in each of 1987, 1988 and 1989 (Herrgesell, 1990). Waterfowl frequently graze on brass button seeds, and the diked, brackish marshes around Suisun Bay are managed in part to promote its growth (Josselyn, 1983). Lepidium latifolium Linnaeus [BRASSICACEAE] BROADLEAF PEPPERGRASS, PERENNIAL PEPPERWEED, TALL WHITETOP Broadleaf peppergrass is a native of Eurasia, where it is reported from Norway to North Africa and east to the Himalayan region. It has been introduced to many parts of the United States, Mexico and Australia, and is found on beaches, tidal shores, saline soils and roadsides throughout most of California (Hickman, 1993; Young & Turner, 1995; May, 1995). Suggested mechanisms of transport to North America along the New England coast prior to 1924 include transport in gluestock (animal bones) shipped from Europe, the seeds adhering to scraps of tissue or burlap sacking (Morse, 1924, cited in

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May, 1995); with material shipped to a dye and licorice works (Eames, 1935, cited in May, 1995); and clinging to the wool of sheep (Rollins, 1993, cited in May, 1995). Broadleaf peppergrass was discovered in Montana in 1935, and in California near Oakdale, Stanislaus County in 1936, possibly having been transported with beet seed (May, 1995). By 1941 it was reported from San Joaquin and Yolo counties on the edge of the Delta (Robbins et al., 1941). Herbarium specimens exist from Grizzly Island (collected in 1960), Antioch Dunes (1977) and the Bay shoreline at Martinez and Point Pinole (1978). It was reported as common in the tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary (Atwater et al., 1979), and uncommon in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Recently it has been reported as invasive and spreading in shallow ponds and adjacent moist uplands in the Central Valley wildlife refuges, and in high tidal marsh areas and diked seasonal wetlands in Suisun Marsh (where hundreds of acres on Grizzly Island are affected) and throughout the Bay (Trumbo, 1994; Dudley & Collins, 1995; Malamud-Roam, pers. comm., 1994; May, 1995). Broadleaf peppergrass produces large amounts of seed, can reproduce asexually by spread of rhizome sections, and is tolerant of a broad range of environmental conditions (Trumbo, 1994; May, 1995). It often becomes established on disturbed, bare soils, and was also observed in pickleweed (Salicornia) plains and among Scirpus spp. (May, 1995). May (1995) reports that it may be intolerant of frequent or prolonged flooding, and our observations suggest that it is limited to the upper edge, or often above the upper edge, of tidal inundation. Trumbo (1994) suggests that at Suisun Marsh peppergrass first got established in agricultural areas, then as farms closed during the 1950s expanded rapidly "unchecked by frequent cultivations and crop competition" and invaded wildlife areas of the marsh. He claims that it competes with pickleweed, thereby reducing habitat for the endangered saltmarsh harvest mouse, and that its dense growth is unsuitable for use as nesting cover by waterfowl, although May (1995) reports that waterfowl nests have been observed in monotypic stands of peppergrass. BDOC (1994) states that it may outcompete and displace certain rare native marsh plants, such as Lilaeopsis masoni and Cordylanthus mollis mollis. CDFG has tested burning, discing and herbicide treatments as control measures for pepper grass, which is ranked as a "B"-level plant pest by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (BDOC, 1994). Limosella subulata Ives, 1817 [SCROPHULARIACEAE] AWL-LEAVED MUDWORT Limosella subulata is native to Europe or the east coast of North America, and found in southern British Columbia and in fifteen western states. It is reported from muddy and sandy intertidal flats in the Delta (Muenscher, 1944; Munz, 1959; Atwater et al., 1979; Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Hickman, 1993).

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Lythrum salicaria Linnaeus [LYTHRACEAE] PURPLE LOOSESTRIFE Native to Europe, purple loosestrife is invasive worldwide. It was introduced to North America by the early 1880s, either as seeds in solid ballast or in the wool of sheep, or as a cultivated plant. It can grow in monospecific stands, competes with cattails and other marsh plants (Mills et al., 1993), and is listed as a noxious weed in California (Hickman, 1993). Purple loosestrife was reported by Munz (1968) in Nevada and Butte counties, but not mentioned by Munz (1959) or Mason (1957). It is now found in low elevation marshes, ponds, streambanks and ditches throughout much of California, including the Sacramento Valley and the Bay Area (Hickman, 1993). Myriophyllum aquaticum (Velloso) [HALORAGACEAE] PARROT'S FEATHER SYNONYMS: Myriophyllum brasiliense Cambess. A South American native, parrot's feather is found in ponds, ditches, streams and lakes in warm temperate and tropical regions throughout the world. Escaped from cultivation in California and reported from six counties from Humboldt to San Diego ("set out in these areas by dealers in aquatics for the purpose of market propagation;" Mason, 1957), from the Coast and Cascade ranges and from central western California (Hickman, 1993), and from tidal marshes and sloughs in the Delta (Atwater et al., 1979; Madrone Assoc., 1980). BDOC (1994) reports that parrot's feather "provides excellent mosquito habitat," and that the USDA has investigated the use of herbicidal and biological controls. Myriophyllum spicatum Linnaeus [HALORAGACEAE] EURASIAN MILFOIL SYNONYMS: Myriophyllum exalbescens in part Eurasian milfoil is a native of Eurasia and North Africa that has invaded lakes in the eastern United States and Canada. Its first documented occurrence in North America was in the Potomac River, Virginia in 1881, though it is thought to have arrived much earlier (Reed, 1977, cited in Mills et al., 1993). In the early 1970s it reportedly made up over 90 percent of the plant biomass in Lake Cayuga, New York, where it may have been eventually controlled by an exotic moth, Acentria niveus (Anon., 1994). Control efforts have also included cutting, water drawdown and herbicide applications (Mills et al., 1993). Eurasian milfoil reportedly can outcompete native plants through shading, clog pipes and entangle boat propellers, and foul beaches with decaying mats of dead plants. It spreads as discarded material from

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aquaria and entangled on boats and trailers moved between watersheds (Mills et al., 1995). Hickman (1993) reports this plant as uncommon in ditches and lake margins in the Bay Area and the San Joaquin Valley, and BDOC (1994) reports it from the Delta. Munz (1959) reported Myriophyllum spicatum ssp. exalbescens common throughout cismontane California in quiet water below 8,000 feet, Atwater et al. (1979) reported M. s. ssp. exalbescens in Snodgrass Slough on the Sacramento River in the Delta in 1976, and Madrone Assoc. (1980) reported water milfoil (as M. s. var. exalbescens and M. exalbescens) common in the Delta. Hickman (1993) states that M. s. ssp. exalbescens was misapplied to M. sibiricum, which he treats as a native (but which we consider cryptogenic (Table 2) based on its reported range which includes Pacific coastal and eastern Northern America and Eurasia). Based on reported distribution and abundance, we consider Munz's (1959) exalbescens to be M. sibiricum and the Delta reports of exalbescens since 1976 to refer, at least in part, to M. spicatum. Polygonum patulum Bieberstein [POLYGONACEAE] SMARTWEED Native to eastern Europe, Polygonum patulum is reported as uncommon in and around salt marshes in the Bay and Delta area (Munz 1959; Hickman, 1993). It belongs to a closely related (and possibly hybridizing) group of introduced or cryptogenic species, often found in or adjacent to fresh or saline wetlands, including Polygonum aviculare (cryptogenic), argyrocoleon (Asian), prolificum (eastern North America) and punctatum (cryptogenic). Rorippa nasturtium-aquaticum (Linnaeus) Hayek [BRASSICACEAE] WATERCRESS SYNONYMS: Nasturtium officinale R. Br. Radicula nasturtium-aquaticum (Linnaeus) Britt. & Rendle Rorippa nasturtium Rusby Sisymbrium nasturtium-aquaticum Watercress is a perennial aquatic plant native to Europe which has been widely cultivated for its edible greens, and which has escaped and become common throughout North America in marshes, in slowly flowing creeks, around seeps, on wet banks, etc. Though probably present earlier, established populations were first reported from North America near Niagara Falls in 1847 and at Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1857 (Gray, 1848; Green, 1962; Mills et al., 1993). Peck (1941) reported it widely distributed in Oregon and Muenscher (1944) reported it from 41 states including California, Oregon and Washington. Watercress is found in the Delta (Munz, 1959; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Most authors (e. g. Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; Mills et al., 1993, 1995; BDOC, 1994) consider this plant to be an introduction from Europe, although Hickman (1993) treats it as a native plant of temperate world-wide distribution.

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Salsola soda Linnaeus [CHENOPODIACEAE] Native to southern Europe, Salsola soda is found on mudflats, in open areas and among pickleweed in salt marshes, and on berms, among riprap and in open areas at and above the high tide mark at scattered sites in San Francisco Bay (Hickman, 1993; pers. obs.). It was first collected in July 1968 at the west end of the Dumbarton Bridge in the South Bay (Thomas, 1975). It has since been found at several sites in the South Bay from Candlestick Park to the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, and on the Alameda shore; from Emeryville Marina to Hoffman Marsh, Richmond and at Richardson Bay in the Central Bay; and at Chevron Marsh, Richmond, at Pinole and at Tubbs Island in San Pablo Bay (Thomas, 1975; Tamasi, 1995; pers. obs.). At the Pinole shore it appears to be successfully competing with pickleweed Salicornia virginica in the high marsh, and like pickleweed is attacked by the parasitic plant Cuscuta salina (pers. obs.). A few plants were observed on a mudflat in Bodega Harbor in the summer of 1994 but not in 1995 (Connors, 1995; C. Daehler, pers. comm., 1995). Its mechanism of introduction is something of a mystery, as no known modern transport vectorexcepting the unlikely possibility of its use (and escape) as an ornamental plantappears to apply. Spergularia media (Linnaeus) Grisebach [CARYOPHYLLACEAE] SAND SPURREY SYNONYMS: Arenaria media Hickman (1993) noted that "Spergularia maritima (All.) Chiov. may prove to be the correct name" for this species. Sand spurrey is native to coastal Europe and has been introduced to South America, eastern North America and Oregon. It is found on salt flats, in and bordering salt marshes, and on sandy beaches in Marin and Contra Costa counties (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) listed it as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary.

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Monocotyledones Egeria densa Planchon [HYDROCHARITACEAE] ELODEA, EGERIA, BRAZILIAN WATERWEED SYNONYMS: Elodea densa (Planchon) Caspary Anacharis densa (Planchon) Marie-Victorin Elodea is a highly invasive aquatic plant from South America that clogs waterways and interferes with navigation. In 1944 Muenscher reported it as a recently established introduction in six eastern states from Massachusetts to Florida and in California, Steward et al. (1963) reported it from Oregon, and it has also become established in Europe (Hickman, 1993). It is widely used in aquaria and ornamental pools, and was probably introduced as discarded material or as an escape (Muencher, 1944; Munz, 1959). In California it was reported as infrequent at scattered locations by Mason (1957), and is now found on both sides of the Sierra Nevada, in the San Joaquin Valley, and in the San Francisco Bay area (Hickman, 1993). Elodea is reported as common in waterways throughout the Delta and in the Contra Costa Canal (Atwater et al., 1979; Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Holt, 1992). It was found at 8 of 10 sites in the Delta surveyed for littoral zone vegetation in 1988-90 (IESP, 1991). In the 1990s it has spread to new areas and deeper water in the Delta and become more abundant, perhaps due to lower summer water levels and warmer water temperatures (Holt, 1992; Thomas, pers. comm.). Although elodea provides shelter for newly hatched fish, it also clogs channels and berths, gets caught in water intake of engines, and fouls propellers. Management of this species included the use of an aquatic weed killer on about 35 acres of Delta waterways in 1991 (Holt, 1992). Field tests are being conducted on the use of Komeen, a copper-based herbicide, and biocontrol agents are being investigated (Rubissow, 1994; BDOC, 1994). Eichhornia crassipes (Martius) Solms-Laubach, 1883 [PONTEDERIACEAE] WATER HYACINTH Water hyacinth, "perhaps the world's most troublesome aquatic weed" (Hickman, 1993) is a native of tropical South America that has spread to more than 50 countries on five continents, and has become a massive problem in waterways in both Africa and Southeast Asia (Barrett, 1989). Its air-filled tissue (aerenchyma) enables it to float and spread rapidly within and between connected water bodies. It reproduces asexually by breaking apart into pieces each of which develops into a separate plant. This results in a rapid increase in biomass, and continuous mats of living and decaying water hyacinth up to two meters thick covering the water surface have been reported (Barrett, 1991). Water hyacinth was introduced to North America in 1884 via the Cotton States Exposition in New Orleans. The plant was displayed in ornamental ponds and distributed as souvenirs to visitors, with the excess dumped into nearby creeks and lakes (Barrett, 1989; Joyce, 1992). It spread across the southeastern U. S. to Florida, where a 1895 invasion of the St. Johns River produced floating mats of water hyacinth up to 40 kilometers long (Barrett, 1989), and in several southeastern sites blocked the

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passage of steamboats and other vessels by 1898 (Joyce, 1992). According to Joyce, these problems led to the passage of the River and Harbor Act in 1899, authorizing the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers to maintain navigation channels in these areas. Control efforts included the spraying of sodium arsenite, which poisoned applicators and livestock (Joyce, 1992). The 1884 Cotton States Exposition was probably also the initial source of the water hyacinth that was reported from the Sacramento River near Clarksburg, California, in 1904 (Thomas & Anderson, 1983; Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). In California, water hyacinth spread gradually for many decades. Robbins et al. (1941) reported it from the Kings River in Fresno County and Warner Creek in San Bernardino County. It reached the Delta by the late 1940s or early 1950s, where the federal Bureau of Reclamation tried controlling it with herbicides around 1957 (Thomas & Anderson, 1983; L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). In 1959 Munz reported it as occasionally established in sloughs and sluggish water in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and the Santa Ana River system. In 1972 the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers investigated water hyacinth on the Merced River and determined that it was not a flood hazard (Thomas & Anderson, 1983; L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). Atwater et al. (1979) listed it as common in tidal marshes, presumably in the Delta. Madrone Assoc. (1980) reported it as seasonally common in the southern and central Delta and clearing in the winter, when coot and other waterfowl fed on the dead plants. Starting in the 1980s water hyacinth became a serious problem in the Delta watershed, blocking canals and waterways, fouling irrigation pumps, shutting down marinas, blocking salmon migration and, by 1982-83, blocking ferry boats at Bacon Island and preventing the island's produce from being shipped to market (CDBW, 1994; L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). The plant's abundance may have been drought-related, with plant densities building up when low river flows were unable to flush the year's growth out of the Delta. On the other hand, when a wet year arrived in 1993 the higher rainfall "washed surplus plants from the upstream channels into the Delta where it created a major problem by early summer, and it also appeared to trigger unprecedented seed growth." High flows also lowered chloride levels enabling plants to grow in parts of the western Delta that had previously been clear (CDBW, 1994). On June 14, 1982 California Senate Bill 1344 became law, directing the California Department of Boating and Waterways (CDBW) to control water hyacinth in the Delta. CDBW set up barriers to keep large masses of floating plants out of navigation channels and sprayed the herbicides Weedar (2,4-D), Diquat and Rodeo (glyphosphate), at a cost that rose to about $400,000 annually. Program Supervisor Larry Thomas claims that if herbicides had not been used in 1986-1991, "water hyacinth would have shut the Delta down" (L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994) In some areas mechanical harvesting has been used to control hyacinth, but this is expensive (typically around $1,500 to $3,000 per acre) and disposal of the hyacinth can be a problem. Because of the cost, CDBW does not use mechanical harvesting (L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). In 1982 and 1983 CDBW, working with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, imported and released three insects from South America as biological controls, the moth Sameodes albiguttalis (which did not survive) and the weevils Neochetina bruchi and N. eichhorniae. Although the two weevils became established in the Delta, there is no evidence that they control water hyacinth (Thomas & Anderson, 1983; L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994).

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Of the three flowering forms of water hyacinth, only medium-style plants have been found in California even though these plants are heterozygous for style length. This suggests that water hyacinth does not reproduce sexually in California. Conditions preventing sexual reproduction may include a lack of effective insect pollinators foraging in hyacinth (although honeybees Apis mellifera may be effective where they visit hyacinth), and a lack of open shallow water or saturated soil sites which are needed for germination and seedling establishment (Barrett, 1980, 1989). Today water hyacinth is locally abundant in ponds, sloughs and waterways in the Central Valley, the Bay Area, and the southern Coast and Peninsular ranges (Hickman, 1993), and very dense in many waterways in the Delta. In 1988-1990 it was found in 4 of 10 sites in the Delta surveyed for littoral zone vegetation (IESP, 1991). In 1993 hyacinth again became very dense in parts of the Delta and the San Joaquin Valley drainage, despite herbicide treatment of around 1,500 acres (CDBW, 1994). In the Philippines, the leaves of this troublesome weed are sold as a market vegetable under the name of "waterlilly" or "dahon" (Ladines & Lontoc, 1983). Iris pseudacorus Linnaeus [IRIDACEAE] YELLOW FLAG, YELLOW IRIS A native of Europe, Iris pseudacorus was a popular garden flower that escaped from cultivation. The first populations reported in North America were from near Poughkeepsie, New York in 1868, from a swamp near Ithaca, New York in 1886 and from Massachusetts in 1889, and it was first reported from Canada at Ontario in 1940 (Mills et al., 1993, 1995). It is now widespread east of the Rocky Mountains (Hickman, 1993). Jepson (1951) did not mention Iris pseudacorus, but Mason (1957) reported that it "has escaped in Merced County and is apparently moving down the watercourses." It has since been found in irrigation ditches and pond margins in the San Francisco Bay area, in the southern San Joaquin Valley, and in Sonoma County (Munz, 1968; Hickman, 1993). Atwater (1980) found it was the only common introduced plant on Delta islets, reporting it from the banks of 4 out of 6 islets surveyed in 1978-79. Polypogon elongatus Kunth, 1815 [POACEAE] Native to South America, this plant is found in salt marshes and on sand dunes in the Bay Area, including Contra Costa County, and in the southern Coast Range (Munz, 1959, Hickman, 1993).

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Potamogeton crispus Linnaeus, 1753 [POTAMOGETONACEAE] CURLY-LEAF PONDWEED, CURLY PONDWEED This pondweed is native to Europe and now found more-or-less worldwide, including Atlantic North America, California and Oregon (Steward et al., 1963). The earliest verified records in North America are from Delaware and Pennsylvania in the 1860s, although reports of it date back to 1807. It was deliberately introduced into parts of the Great Lakes basin to provide food for waterfowl, and is associated with fish hatcheries having perhaps been accidentally transported between watersheds in conjunction with fish stocking activities (Mills et al., 1993 citing Stuckey, 1979). It reportedly can grow in fresh, brackish or salt water (Mills et al., 1995). It is uncommon in shallow water, ponds, reservoirs and streams across most of cismontane California including the Bay Area and the Central Valley (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). In 1988-90 it was found in 2 of 10 sites surveyed for littoral zone vegetation in the Delta (IESP, 1991). Spartina alterniflora Loiseleur-Deslongchamps [POACEAE] SMOOTH CORDGRASS, SALT-WATER CORDGRASS Spartina alterniflora is native to the coast of eastern North America from Maine to Texas (Muenscher, 1944) and has been introduced to Padilla Bay (1910), Thorndyke Bay (1930), Camano Island and Whidbey Island in Washington; the Siuslaw Estuary in Oregon; and New Zealand, England (1922) and China (1977) (Chung, 1990; Callaway, 1990; Callaway & Josselyn, 1992; Ratchford, 1995). Most literature states that S. alterniflora was first introduced to the northeastern Pacific in Willapa Bay, Washington, but both the date and mechanism of introduction to this site are unclear. In a brief note Scheffer (1945) reported first becoming aware of a cordgrass in Willapa Bay "about seven years ago"thus about 1938that was identified as S. alterniflora in 1941. An oysterman reported first seeing the plants "about 1911," and Scheffer, believing that the first Atlantic oysters (shipped from Rhode Island) had been planted in Willapa Bay about 1907, concluded (apparently based on the coincidence in dates) that the cordgrass had been introduced with the oysters. Sayce (1988) pointed out that Scheffer was mistaken about the initial date and origin of Atlantic oyster shipments to Willapa Bay, reporting that in fact the first shipment, of 80 barrels of oysters from estuaries near New York City and Chesapeake Bay, occurred in 1894, and that there were no subsequent introductions of Atlantic oysters for the next 50 years (although Carlton (1979a, p. 72) reports introductions of Atlantic oysters to Willapa Bay occurring in 1874 and 1894-1920s). Sayce did, however, continue to associate Spartina alterniflora with oyster shipments, stating that the Atlantic cordgrass was introduced with the 1894 shipment. She explained, "When the oysters were packed in barrels, in all likelihood the packing material was "salt grass" of one of two species, Spartina alterniflora or S. patens. S. patens has not been found in Willapa Bay. Either viable seeds or rhizomes of Spartina alterniflora were in the packing material." Nearly all subsequent authors have followed Sayce in reporting that S. alterniflora arrived in Willapa bay in 1894 as packing material for oysters. However, we have found no record of cordgrass ever having been used as packing material for any oyster

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shipments, nor is there any reason to think that hard-shelled oysters packed in barrels would need or benefit from additional packing. Thus, there is no basis for concluding that S. alterniflora was introduced to Willapa Bay in 1894. Accordingly, we consider the first record of S. alterniflora in Willapa Bay to be "about 1911," and suggest solid ballast as the likeliest transport mechanism. Molecular genetic comparisons with east coast populations may clarify the source of the S. alterniflora stock in Willapa Bay (as has been done for San Francisco Bay S. alterniflora; C Daehler, pers. comm., 1995), providing additional information to resolve the probable means of transport. Spartina alterniflora was separately introduced to San Francisco Bay in the early 1970s by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers as mitigation for wetlands destroyed in the construction of the New Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel or as an experimental planting (anecdotal accounts and genetic analysis both indicating that the stock originated from Maryland; C. Daehler, pers. comm., 1995). It was planted at Pond 3 at the Coyote Hills Regional Shoreline. One source reported that after plantings of the native cordgrass S. foliosa did poorly, the area was replanted with the more robust S. alterniflora to produce a "successful" restoration. S. alterniflora from Coyote Hills was later transplanted to San Bruno Slough near the San Francisco Airport by the Caltrans agency, either as mitigation for the Samtrans Bus Terminal or for erosion control. It may also have been planted in the Elsie Roemer Wildlife Refuge on the southwest shore of Alameda Island as part of yet another "restoration" project in 1983 or 1984, or for erosion control by the City of Alameda. It was found in Hayward Marsh in 1989 (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985; Calloway, 1990; Kelly, pers. comm., 1992; Faber, pers. comm., 1993; Taylor, pers. comm., 1993; Cohen, 1993). In San Francisco Bay S. alterniflora is found both within existing salt marshes and extending into lower elevation mudflats. Comparing aerial photographs of the mouth of Coyote Hills Slough, Callaway (1990) saw no S. alterniflora in 1981 but counted 31 round patches in 1988 and 146 patches in 1990. Daehler & Strong (1994) found that "although some dense monocultures have formed," most S. alterniflora was growing in discrete circular patches separated by open mud, determined by isozyme analysis to consist of individual genetic clones. There are now a total of about 1,000 round or donut-shaped patches at southwestern Alameda Island and northeastern Bay Farm Island, San Leandro Bay, Hayward Marsh, Alameda Creek and Coyote Hills Slough (New Alameda Creek), and San Bruno Slough (near the San Francisco Airport). Smaller amounts are reported from the Estudillo Flood Control Channel south of the San Leandro Marina, the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and the Cargill salt ponds near Newark, and the National Wildlife Refuge near Alviso (M. Taylor, pers. comm., 1993; J. Takekawa, pers. comm., 1994; C. Daehler, pers. comm., 1995). New patches of S. alterniflora are established both from seed and vegetative fragments (Daehler & Strong, 1994). The cordgrass apparently arrived in Hayward as floating rhizomes (M. Taylor, pers. comm., 1993) and may be spread by dredges within the Cargill salt ponds (D. Strong, pers. comm., 1993). Daehler & Strong (1994) observed about 75 percent of patches setting very little seed in 1991-1992, and germination rates ranging from zero to 59 percent, and suggested that a few clones may be producing most of the seeds. On the other hand, Callaway (1990) found higher seed production (2,475 vs. 371 seeds/m2), higher seed viability (97% vs. 67%) and higher germination rates (average germination percentages of 77% vs. 49% in freshwater, and 37% vs. 14% in 25 ppt salinity) for S. alterniflora than for the native cordgrass Spartina foliosa in San Francisco Bay.

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Spartina alterniflora grows both higher and lower in the intertidal zone than S. foliosa (Calloway, 1990; D. Strong, pers. comm., 1993; in Willapa Bay its total vertical range is at least 66 percent of the tidal range, Sayce, 1988), and can accrete sediment at a rapid rate (Sayce, 1988; Josselyn et al., 1993). By growing at a lower elevation it may reduce the area of mudflats in San Francisco Bay as it has in Willapa Bay, Washington, where it has turned an estimated 1,800-2,400 acres (5-6 percent) of Willapa Bay's mudflats into cordgrass islands (Ratchford, 1995). Callaway & Josselyn (1992) listed potential adverse impacts as: competitive replacement of native cordgrass; altered habitat for native wetland animals because of larger and more rigid stems and greater stem densities; altered habitat for infauna because of higher root densities; changed sediment dynamics; decreased benthic algal production because of lower light levels below cordgrass canopy; and loss of shorebird foraging habitat through colonization of mudflats. In British estuaries, the invasion of mudflats by Spartina anglica has produced adverse effects on shorebirds (Goss-Custard & Moser, 1990; Callaway, 1990). The potential loss of native cordgrass is of particular concern, because it provides habitat for the severely endangered California clapper rail, Rallus longirostris obsoletus. On the other hand, S. alterniflora could possibly provide more and better cover and therefore better protection for the rail, which is threatened by predation by the introduced red fox, Vulpes vulpes (P. Kelly, pers. comm., 1992; Cohen, 1992, 1993). In San Francisco Bay, S. alterniflora is attacked by the sap-feeding planthopper Prokelisia marginata at densities (ranging from 116 to 332 insects per inflorescence) much higher than typically observed on the Atlantic coast, and by the sap-feeding mirid bug Trigonotylus uhleri. However, this does not appear to affect growth rates, seed production or germination rates (Daehler & Strong, 1994, 1995). The California Department of Fish and Game eliminated S. alterniflora from Humboldt Bay in about 5 years by constructing a dike around a clump "the size of a house" and covering it with black plastic, at a cost of $30,000 to $40,000 (M. Taylor, pers. comm., 1993; D. Strong, pers. comm., 1993). Burning and herbicides have been tried in Great Britain (P. Kelly, pers. comm., 1992). After trying weed eaters and burning, the East Bay Regional Park District's current control strategy at Hayward Marsh is to cover with black plastic. The herbicide Rodeo (glyphosphate) has been used at San Bruno Slough. Smooth cordgrass has now so thoroughly clogged the New Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel (the project for which the plant was originally introduced as mitigation) that the Army Corps has proposed 5 years of helicopter-spraying Rodeo in the channel (P. Baye, pers. comm., 1994).

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Spartina anglica C. E. Hubbard, 1968 [POACEAE] ENGLISH CORDGRASS The western Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora (2n=62)was introduced in ship ballast to Southampton Water on the south coast of England, where it was collected in 1829. S. alterniflora there hybridized with the British cordgrass S. maritima (2n=60), producing a sterile F1 hybrid known as S. townsendii or S. x townsendii (2n=62) which was first collected in 1870 near Southampton, though not recognized as a hybrid until 1956. Chromosome doubling in this hybrid produced a fertile form (2n=120-124), probably present by the late 1880s as evidenced by a marked expansion of range, and collected in 1892. S. maritima disappeared from Southampton and nearby areas as the new form multiplied (Marchant, 1967). In 1968 Hubbard recognized this form as a separate species and named it S. anglica. This new species has proved to be an effective invader of both formerly unvegetated mudflats and of salt marsh, and, through a combination of transplantings for marsh reclamation purposes, vigorous clonal growth and natural dispersal, it now occupies 10,000 hectares (25,000 acres) of the British coast (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985; Thompson, 1991). Another dimension to this story is provided by Chevalier's suggestion (1923; reported by Marchant, 1967) that S. maritima is itself not native to Great Britain, but was introduced there with shipping (possibly in solid ballast) from Africa. S. anglica was reported from France by 1894, where it spread rapidly (Marchant, 1967). To control shoreline erosion and create salt marshes, S. anglica has been exported from England to many parts of the world, including Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, China (where it now occupies over 36,000 hectares, almost entirely derived from 21 plants introduced in 1963), Australia and New Zealand (in 1930, where it was later declared a "noxious weed") (Hedgpeth, 1980; Spicher & Josselyn, 1985; Chung, 1990; Callaway, 1990; Callaway & Josselyn, 1992). Chung (1990) listed as additional reasons for planting S. anglica in China the accretion of land for reclamation; the amelioration of saline soils; the production of green manure; the provision of pasture and fodder for sheep, goats, mules, donkeys, horses, pigs, cattle, dairy cows, buffalo, rabbits and geese; the production of feed for tilapia, grass carp and other farmed fish; the increased production of nereid worms for export sale and of other invertebrates; the creation of biomass for fuel production; and the production of raw material for paper-making. In 1961 or 1962 the U. S. Department of Agriculture and Washington State University introduced what was then known as S. townsendii into Puget Sound, Washington. Ramets of these plants were introduced into San Francisco Bay at Creekside Park Marsh, Marin County, as part of a marsh restoration project in 1977. Botanists realized these plants were in fact S. anglica when they flowered in 1983 (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985; Callaway, 1990). In England S. anglica has hampered shorebird movement and feeding and correlates with a decline in dunlin (Calidris alpina) numbers (Goss-Custard & Moser, 1990), and has reduced macroinvertebrate densities (Callaway, 1990). S. anglica has proved to be highly invasive in many parts of the world (e. g. southern Great Britain, new Zealand and China), and Thompson (1991) argued that S. anglica was a more successful invader in Europe than the similar S. alterniflora because of greater vigor and selective advantages conferred by allopolyploidy. However, in San Francisco Bay S. alterniflora is the aggressive invader while S. anglica has not spread

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from the marsh where it was originally planted (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985). Daehler (pers. comm., 1994) suggests that the Bay is near the equatorial limit of S. anglica's potential range, a supposition supported by S. anglica's production of only 20% viable seeds in 1983 and failure to flower in 1984 (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985). Spartina densiflora Brongniart [POACEAE] DENSE-FLOWERED CORDGRASS Spartina densiflora is native to Chile and was introduced to Humboldt Bay in the mid-nineteenth century, probably in the shingle ballast of lumber ships returning from Chile (a mechanism also thought to be involved in the transport of the shorehopper Transorchestia enigmatica to San Francisco Bay). S. densiflora was transplanted from Humboldt Bay to Corte Madera Marsh in 1976 as part of a restoration project at a time when it was thought to be an ecotype of the native S. foliosa. (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985; Callaway, 1990; Faber, pers. comm., 1993). It is currently found in salt marshes at Creekside Park, Corte Madera Creek, Muzzi Marsh and Greenwood Cove, all in southeastern Marin County (Spicher & Josselyn, 1985). Spartina patens (Aiton) Muhlenberg [POACEAE] SALTMEADOW CORDGRASS, SALT HAY Saltmeadow cordgrass is native to the eastern United States from Maine to Texas and reported rarely from inland marshes in New York and Michigan. Meadows of this cordgrass were sometimes harvested for hay used in packing and bedding material (Muencher, 1944). Munz (1968) listed Spartina patens as "reported from Southampton Bay in a marsh, northwest of Benicia, Solano County, Mall." Atwater et al. (1979) referred to "R. E. Mall's report of salt hay at Southampton Bay" but could not find it there or elsewhere in the estuary. In 1985 Spicher & Josselyn again found "an existing patch" of the plant in Southampton Marsh which "does not appear to have spread from its original location," and in 1993 Josselyn et al. listed it from San Bruno Slough in the South Bay. Spartina patens was also introduced to Cox Island, Siuslaw River, Oregon in 1930 (Callaway, 1990), and to China in 1977 (Chung, 1990). Given that various Spartina species have been extensively transplanted around the globe, and that S. patens was intentionally planted in Oregon, it seems probable that S. patens arrived in San Francisco Bay as a component of some marsh restoration or erosion control project (transplanted either from Oregon or the east coast).

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Typha angustifolia Linnaeus, 1753 [TYPHACEAE] NARROW-LEAF CATTAIL, NAIL ROD Narrow-leaf cattail is native to Eurasia and was reported as a rare member of the coastal flora of the eastern United States in the 1820s (Mills et al., 1993). It is now common in the northeastern states and Canada, and found inland to the Great Plains, in California and in South America. Jepson (1951) reported it from Inyo County south to cismontane southern California, and by 1959 Munz reported it from marshes in central California. Hickman (1993), who describes it as "possibly naturalized in California," reports it from the central and southern coastal region of California, including the San Francisco Bay Area, and inland to the Central Valley and Lake Tahoe. Josselyn (1983) described it as one of the dominant species in the middle elevation zone of tidal brackish marshes in San Francisco Bay. Hybrids with the native Typha latifolia are common in central California including San Francisco Bay tidal marshes, and are known as Typha x glauca (Munz, 1968; Josselyn, 1983; Hickman, 1993).

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PROTOZOANS
Several workers have investigated the ciliate protozoans that live with or in the introduced mollusks and boring/burrowing isopods of San Francisco Bay. We regard those species originally described from Atlantic waters as being introduced with their hosts into the Bay. Ancistrumina kofoidi, treated here as a cryptogenic species (Table 2), is an additional probable introduction. Mechanisms of introduction of commensal and symbiotic protozoans are the same as their hosts, and are discussed with the latter. Mechanisms of introduction of free-living attached or errant protozoans include ship-fouling, ship-ballast (rock, sand, and water), and the planting of commercial oysters. Free-living Protozoans Trochammina hadai Uchio This brackish water, benthic foraminifer is native to Japan. It has been found in sediment cores collected in 1990-93 from six stations in the South Bay and from three stations in the Central Bay near the Marin County shore. It has not been found in over 140 sediment samples collected in 1964-70 and 1980-81 from throughout the Bay (D. Sloan, pers. comm., 1995; McGann, 1995; McGann & Sloan, 1995), suggesting that the introduction occurred in the 1980s. Furthermore, where it is present T. hadai appears to be abundant in the upper sections of cores, less abundant in lower sections, and absent at depth. For example, in a core from the South Bay, T. hadai accounts for 52.2% of the benthic foraminifera in the top 2.5 cm, 8.8% at 8-10 cm depth, 0.7% at 18-20 cm depth, and is absent from the next 33 sections examined down to 352 cm depth (McGann, 1995). In a core taken from Richardson Bay in the Central Bay, T. hadai accounts for 16% of the foraminifera at 0-2 cm from the surface, 38% at 20-22 cm, 26% at 40-42 cm, 23% at 60-62 cm, 18% at 80-82 cm, 2% at 100-102 cm and less than 1% at 120-122 cm (D. Sloan, pers. comm., 1995). This pattern of depth distribution is likely due to bioturbation or other types of sediment disturbance mixing foraminifer tests from recently-deposited, near-surface sediments downward into deeper and earlier-deposited sediments. T. hadai's depth distribution may thus provide a means of measuring the physical and biological processes that mix sediments in different parts of the Bay, which, aside from telling us something about those processes, will be critical to efforts to use sediment cores to decipher the Bay's environmental history. Although foraminifera have sometimes been observed in some types of fouling (WHOI, 1952; ANC, pers. obs.), transpacific transport in ship fouling seems unlikely for this benthic organism. Bottom sediments and presumably benthic foraminifera as well are sometimes churned up by wind turbulence or ship activity and taken in along with water into ballast tanks; and foraminifera have been reported from ballast water, though rarely (Carlton & Geller, 1993). A benthic foraminifer could readily be transported with commercial shipments of oysters, but there have been no significant plantings of Japanese oysters in San Francisco Bay since the 1930s (Carlton, 1979a). A possible mechanism is transport in mud on anchors or on anchor chains in chain lockers, as discussed by Schormann et al. (1990).

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Molluscan-associated Protozoans Ancistrocoma pelseneeri Chatton & Lwoff, 1926 SYNONYMS: Parachaenia myae This ciliate was described as Parachaenia myae by Kofoid and Bush (1936) from the pericardial region and excurrent siphons of the introduced clam Mya arenaria in San Francisco and Tomales bays. Kozloff (1946) subsequently reported it from another introduced clam, Macoma balthica, and from several native clams in San Francisco and Tomales bays, and synonymized it with the Atlantic ciliate Ancistrocoma pelseneeri, described from Macoma balthica in Europe. Ancistrum cyclidioides (Issel) Kozloff (1946) recorded this European ciliate from the introduced clam Mya arenaria in San Francisco Bay. Boveria teredinidi Nelson, 1923 Pickard (1927) recorded this Atlantic protozoan from the gills (ctenidia) of the introduced Atlantic shipworm Teredo navalis in San Francisco Bay. Sphenophyra dosiniae Chatton & Lwoff, 1926 This European ciliate was reported by Kozloff (1946) from the introduced clam Mya arenaria and the native clam Cryptomya californica in San Francisco Bay.

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Crustacean-associated Protozoans Cothurnia limnoriae Dons, 1927 This peritrich protozoan is found on the joints of the legs of the introduced wood-boring isopod Limnoria (Mohr, 1959) (in San Francisco Bay, as discussed elsewhere, only non-native species of this gribble occur). It was reported from San Francisco Bay by Kofoid & Miller (1927, p. 330, as Cothurnia sp.), although it may have been present since Limnoria's introduction about 1870. Although first described from Europe, and later reported from southern California (Mohr, 1951), its origins, like those of its host, are not known. Lobochona prorates Mohr, LeVeque & Matsudo, 1963 This chonotrich protozoan occurs on the bristles (setae) of the gills (pleopods) of the introduced wood-boring gribble Limnoria; as with other gribble associates and the host species discussed here, the origin is not known. Lobochona prorates was reported by Kofoid & Miller (1927, p. 330, as Spirochona sp.; see Mohr, 1966, p. 539) from San Francisco Bay, but may have been introduced about 1870 with the isopod itself. It is widely reported from southern California harbors (Carlton, 1979a).

Mirofolliculina limnoriae (Girard, 1883) Dons, 1927 SYNONYMS: Folliculina sp. This heterotrich protozoan lives on the back of the pleotelson of the introduced gribble Limnoria. As with the other Limnoria associated ciliates, it is undoubtedly introduced, but its origins remain unknown. It was reported from San Francisco Bay by Kofoid & Miller (1927, p. 330, as Folliculina sp.).

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INVERTEBRATES
PORIFERA Cliona sp. BORING SPONGE While the species level taxonomy of this yellow, shell-boring sponge remains unresolved, Cliona is almost certainly represented by one or more introduced species in San Francisco Bay. Bay populations are likely to be referable to one or more of the common Cliona found on oysters in Atlantic estuaries; these include Cliona celata Grant, 1826 and Cliona lobata Hancock, 1849 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 218). Japanese species (or genomes) may also be present. Atlantic Cliona were introduced with Atlantic oysters. The first record is that of Townsend (1893), who observed that in 1891 large numbers of oyster shells in the Bay "were found honeycombed by the boring sponge." Halichondria bowerbanki Burton, 1930 BOWERBANK'S HALICHONDRIA SYNONYMS: Halichondria coalita This Atlantic sponge, known from both Europe and Atlantic America, was reported from the Pacific in San Francisco Bay in the early 1950s (Carlton, 1979a), and later from other sites including Humboldt Bay (S. Larned, pers. comm., 1989) and Coos Bay (Hewitt, 1993). It was either introduced with Atlantic oysters, with which it occurs (pers. obs.) or as a fouling organism. In 1993-94 we found Halichondria on most floating docks and with other fouling in the South, Central and San Pablo bays, though not on docks near the Golden Gate. Haliclona loosanoffi Hartman, 1958 LOOSANOFF'S HALICLONA SYNONYMS: Haliclona sp. B of Hartman, 1975 Haliclona ecbasis de Laubenfels, 1930 We newly follow and extend Van Soest (1976) in designating San Francisco Bay Haliclona as the Atlantic native Haliclona loosanoffi (although the recognition of this species in the Bay does not preclude more than one species being present). This is a common tan, yellow, and orange sponge of Bay fouling communities. This is the same species referred to as Haliclona sp. B by Hartman (1975), and is also the same species reported by Fell (1970) as Haliclona ecbasis from Berkeley Yacht Harbor, St. Francis Yacht Harbor, Redwood City and Carmel. Van Soest (1976) noted that Fell's (1970) description of H. ecbasis was very close to H. loosanoffi in all characters, including details of the life cycle, but came short of designating the Bay population as the Atlantic species

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solely because it was in the Pacific Ocean (Van Soest not considering the possibility that it was introduced). Haliclona, possibly including this species, have been reported from Puget Sound, Coos Bay, Bodega Harbor, and several bays in southern California (Carlton, 1979a, p. 216). Haliclona loosanoffi is a common species of oyster communities on the New England coast (pers. obs.), and may have been introduced to the Bay with Atlantic oysters, although the earliest records are only from 1950 (Hartman, pers. comm., 1977). Its presence in fouling communities, however, means that it may have been introduced by ships as well. In 1993 we found Haliclona on most floating docks in the Central Bay and the seaward parts of South and San Pablo bays. We did not find it in 1994 and 1995. Microciona prolifera (Ellis and Solander, 1786) RED BEARD SPONGE This large, common Atlantic sponge is known from Canada to South Carolina. It was first found in San Francisco Bay in the mid- to late-1940s by Woody Williams (it was not noted by Light, 1941), who showed photographs to M. W. de Laubenfels (who initially identified it as the native Microciona microjoanna; Hartman, pers. comm., 1977). W. Hartman (pers. comm., 1977) found large colonies at Redwood City in 1950, and transplanted some of these for experimental purposes to Berkeley Yacht Harbor where it subsequently became established. Its bright orange-red finger-like colonies are unmistakable in the fouling communities around much of the Bay. In 1993-95 we observed it on several floating docks in the South Bay, the eastern shore of the Central Bay, and the southern part of San Pablo Bay. Only two other populations are known on the Pacific coast, from Willapa Bay (Carlton, 1979a, p. 215) and Humboldt Bay (S. Larned, pers. comm., 1989). Microciona could have been a late introduction with Atlantic oystersalong with the crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii and the whelk Busycotypus canaliculatus which were first found in San Francisco Bay at about this time, Microciona has been collected from Atlantic oyster beds (Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973). Since it is a common fouling organism (ANC & JTC, pers. obs.), it could also have been introduced in ship fouling. Prosuberites sp. This undescribed American Atlantic sponge (Hartman, pers. comm., 1977) was first collected in the Bay in 1953 on Angel Island (Carlton, 1979a, p. 217). It may have been introduced to San Francisco Bay with Atlantic oysters or in ship fouling.

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CNIDARIA (COELENTERATA) Hydrozoa Numerous species of hydroids have been introduced to the Bay since the Gold Rush. We treat 13 species here. Campanularia gelatinosa and Halocordyle disticha (=Pennaria tiarella) may still be present in the Bay, but there are no recent records, and we thus list them in Appendix 2. Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910 This Sarmatic hydroid, native to the Black and Caspian Seas, was first collected in 1970 in the Napa River and again in 1974 in the Petaluma River. It remained misidentified (as a species of Phialidium) until 1993 (Mills & Sommer, 1995), when we collected medusae in both rivers. In San Francisco Bay Blackfordia jellyfish eat copepods, copepod nauplii, and barnacle nauplii (Mills & Sommer, 1995). Blackfordia may have been introduced in ships' fouling or in ships' ballast water. The presence of widely scattered populations in the Atlantic Ocean (Chesapeake Bay, Brazil, France, and Portugal) and in India and China means that the source of the Bay's population is unknown, although it is possible that if other populations have diverged genetically, candidate source regions could be identified. The introduction into the Bay in the 1980s-1990s of the clams Potamocorbula and Theora, the mitten crab Eriocheir, seven species of copepods, and other crustaceans, all from Asia, might suggest a Chinese origin. Indeed, it is possible that the recent populations of Blackfordia in the Bay represent a reintroduction of the species. Cladonema uchidai Hirai, 1958 This Japanese hydroid was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1979 (Rees, 1982), although the polyps and medusae that have been studied to date have originated from laboratory or home aquaria containing fouling organisms from San Francisco Bay. The polyps in the laboratory were small (0.5 mm height) as were the medusae (3.5 mm height), and little remains known of this hydrozoan in the Bay. Introduction with ship fouling or ballast water is possible, although earlier introduction with Japanese oysters may have occurred if Cladonema's habitat in Honshu includes oyster communities. Clava multicornis (Forskaal, 1775) CLUB HYDROID SYNONYMS: Clava leptostyla Agassiz, 1862 of northeastern Pacific authors; see Austin, 1984 Rees and Hand (1975) noted that this northwestern Atlantic hydroid forms "large pink patches on pilings in estuaries." It was first collected in the Bay in 1895 (Carlton, 1979b, p. 229), no doubt originating from ship introductions from the New England

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coast, where it is common. Fraser (1937) described its widespread distribution throughout the Bay as documented by Albatross collections in 1912-13. Cordylophora caspia (Pallas, 1771) FRESHWATER HYDROID SYNONYMS: Cordylophora lacustris Allman, 1844 This brackish and freshwater Sarmatic hydroid, native to the Caspian and Black Sea regions, was first found in the Bay in the San Joaquin River at Antioch. Specimens discovered in 1950 were considered to have been collected "20 to 40 years" previously (Hand & Gwilliam, 1951); we choose a date of 1930 as a first record. It was also collected at a similarly early but uncertain date from Lake Union in Seattle, and has now been reported from several sites between San Francisco Bay and Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Carlton, 1979a, p. 230). It is sufficiently widespread around the world (Hand & Gwilliam, 1951), a distribution perhaps achieved centuries ago, as to make the origin of the Bay's populations unknown. It was likely introduced in ship fouling (WHOI, 1952) or ballast water. Cordylophora is common in the Delta (Hazel & Kelly, 1966) and on the concrete sides of the Delta-Mendota water delivery canal (Eng, 1979), and has also been collected in San Francisco's Lake Merced (Miller, 1958). Corymorpha sp. This tiny estuarine, orange-tinted hydroid was collected from soft mud bottoms on the eastern shore of the Bay at Point Richmond (1955-56) and in Oakland's Lake Merritt (1967) (Carlton, 1979a). It appears similar to the European Corymorpha nutans M. Sars, 1835, but the species-level taxonomy remains unresolved (C. Hand, pers. comm., 1967). No similar hydroid has been reported from elsewhere on the Pacific coast. In Lake Merritt it occurs in samples otherwise composed entirely of introduced species. This facies, the absence of any similar Pacific taxon, and its similarity to an Atlantic species, leads us to consider it to be introduced, either via oyster shipments, ship fouling or ballast water. Garveia franciscana (Torrey, 1902) SYNONYMS: Bimeria franciscana This hydroid, often considered under the genus Bimeria, is common in the Bay and reported to be one of the primary food sources of the introduced Asian isopod Synidotea laevidorsalis (Carlton, 1979a). Possibly native to northern Indian Ocean estuaries, it has been introduced in ship fouling and, in later years, possibly by ballast water, to many harbors and ports around the world. It has been reported from western Africa, northwestern Europe, eastern North America, the Gulf of Mexico and Australia (Carlton, 1979a, p. 225).

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Garveia was first collected by Torrey in 1901 (Torrey, 1902; Vervoort, 1964) in San Francisco Bay, its only confirmed location on the Pacific coast. In 1993-95 we found it in dense masses under floating docks at some sites in San Pablo Bay, coated with the introduced bryozoan Conopeum tenuissimum and crawling with Synidotea. We consider it a ship fouling introduction. Gonothyraea clarki (Marktanner-Turneretscher, 1895) This well-known North Atlantic fouling hydroid was first collected in San Francisco Bay in "Oakland Creek" in 1895 and again at various stations around the Bay by the Albatross in 1912 (both are unpublished NMNH records). Graham & Gay (1945) recorded it again in from the Oakland Estuary based upon their 1940-42 studies. Rees & Hand (1975) note that it is "often very common on harbor floats" in central California. In 1995 we collected it from floats at the Grand Street (Oakland Estuary), Emeryville and Coyote Point marinas in San Francisco Bay, and from Isthmus Slough in Coos Bay. Since Gonothyraea can be clearly distinguished from Obelia only if gonozoids are present (E. Kozloff, pers. comm., 1995), some Pacific coast records of Obelia may actually refer to Gonothyraea. Gonothyraea species have been reported from ship fouling (WHOI, 1952), and it was likely introduced either in fouling or with oysters. Maeotias inexspectata Ostroumoff, 1896 Another Black Sea native, Maeotias was first found in the turning basin of the Petaluma River in 1992, and became sufficiently abundant by the summer of 1993 to attract public attention (Mills & Sommer, 1995). Outside of the Black Sea it was previously known from two regions on the Atlantic American coast (Chesapeake Bay and South Carolina) and France (Mills & Sommer,1995); the source of the Bay populations is as yet unknown. In the Petaluma River these jellyfish eat primarily barnacle nauplii, copepods, zoea larvae of the introduced Atlantic crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii, tanaids and other invertebrates, and in the laboratory tolerated salinities up to 13 ppt (Mills & Sommer, 1995). Mills & Sommer (1995) concluded that the Maeotias population in the Petaluma River appears to have been introduced as polyps rather than medusae, since the medusae population in the River is entirely male and therefore incapable of reproduction. A polyp isolated from the Maeotias population, however, readily reproduced asexually in the laboratory, creating numerous new polyps which then produced male medusae. Both polyps (both unattached and on floating debris) and medusae of hydroids are known from ballast water, making this or ship fouling the probable means of introduction. Obelia ?dichotoma (Linnaeus, 1758) and Obelia ?bidentata Clark, 1876 We consider these two species of Obelia, described from Europe and New England respectively, as introduced, and provisionally use the names adopted by Cornelius (1975). Obelia dichotoma was collected in 1894 and later years (identified as O. commissuralis) and in 1899 and later years (identified as O. longissima) from the Bay (unpublished NMNH records). Obelia bidentata was collected in the Bay in 1912

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(identified as O. bicuspidata) (Fraser, 1925, and unpublished NMNH records). Obelia spp. occur throughout the Bay's fouling communities, although in relatively low numbers. Kofoid (1915) early on referred to the "contamination" of Pacific coast harbors by ship-introduced "tubularian and campanularian hydroids." Obelia species have frequently been reported from ship fouling (WHOI, 1952), and there is little doubt that Obelia from around the world were a common element of ships' fouling communities brought to the Bay from the Gold Rush era on. Obelia may have commenced its world journeys on ship bottoms in the 13th century, making identification of original source regions difficult. Obelia has no doubt been introduced into the Bay continuously over the years in ship fouling, with commercial oysters both from the Atlantic (where it occurs in oyster beds; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973) and from Japan, and in recent times in ships' ballast water, primarily as hydromedusae. The native nudibranch Doto kya and the introduced nudibranchs Eubranchus misakensis and Tenellia adspersa apparently feed upon Obelia in San Francisco Bay (Behrens, 1971, 1991; Carlton, 1979a; Jaeckle, 1983). Sarsia tubulosa (M. Sars, 1835) SYNONYMS: Syncoryne mirabilis (Agassiz, 1849) Coryne rosaria Agassiz, 1865 Redescribed from San Francisco Bay as Coryne rosaria by Alexander Agassiz in 1865, Sarsia was one of several North Atlantic hydroids collected by Agassiz during his visits to the Pacific Coast in the late 1850s. He collected this hydroid at Vancouver Island, British Columbia and in the San Juan Islands, Washington, in 1859, and from San Francisco Bay in 1860 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 233). Ricketts & Calvin (1939), in a rare reference to such matters, took particular note of this hydroid as a possible "relic of the days of wooden ships;" we agree that introduction as a ship-fouling organism is the probable means of dispersal. It has subsequently been recorded from Alaska to southern California, although aspects of its global distribution suggest that more than one species may be involved. Tubularia crocea (Agassiz, 1862) SYNONYMS: Parypha microcephala Agassiz, 1865 Tubularia elegans Clark, 1876 Petersen (1990) proposes that Tubularia crocea be transferred to the genus Ectopleura. This common Atlantic fouling hydroid, known from Newfoundland to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico and frequently reported from ships' fouling communities (WHOI, 1952), was introduced by Gold Rush ships to the Bay. It was first collected in 1859 by Alexander Agassiz (who mistakenly described it as a new species, Parypha microcephala; Carlton, 1979a, p. 238) "attached to floating logs round the wharves of San Francisco." It has since been collected from the Gulf of Alaska to San Diego. Tubularia crocea has been frequently reported from ships' fouling communities, although some later introductions may have occurred with Atlantic oysters, with which

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it occurs on the Atlantic coast (Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973). The introduced nudibranchs Catriona rickettsi, Sakuraeolis enosimensis and Tenellia adspersa reportedly feed upon Tubularia in San Francisco Bay (Carlton, 1979a; Behrens, 1984, 1991).

Scyphozoa Aurelia "aurita (Linnaeus, 1758)"northwestern Pacific stock MOON JELLY SYNONYMS: Aurelia labiata Greenberg (1995) reports that a sometimes dense population of Aurelia aurita in Foster City Lagoon (on the San Mateo side of the South Bay), present since at least around 1989, is genetically similar (based on allozyme comparisons) to Aurelia from Tokyo Bay, Japan and unlike Aurelia from Monterey Bay and Vancouver Island. Differences in the structure of the radial canal further distinguish the Japanese and San Francisco Bay from the northeastern Pacific stocks. Aurelia has been seasonally abundant in recent years in Foster City Lagoon and Redwood Creek, both on the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay (J. Thompson, pers. comm.). We know of no earlier reports of Aurelia in South Bay lagoons, although there are records of swarms in Tomales Bay (Ricketts et al., 1985; T. Gosliner, pers. comm., 1995) of this species which is normally found offshore in central California latitudes (Ricketts et al., 1985; E. Kozloff, pers. comm., 1995). The San Francisco Bay population may have been introduced as larvae (known as ephyrae) in ballast water, since we have found live scyphozoan ephyrae in the ballast water of freighters arriving at Coos Bay, Oregon from Japan. Ricketts et al. (1985) describe Aurelia polyps as "extraordinarily tough and resistant," so transport across the Pacific as ship fouling would also be possible. As Aurelia aurita was first described from North Atlantic waters, and since there is evidence of both genetic and morphological differentiation, the species-level taxonomy of the group may require revision.

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Anthozoa Diadumene ?cincta Stephenson, 1925 ORANGE ANEMONE Between the mid-1950s (Hand, 1956) and early 1970s when it was first collected (no exact date is available as of this writing), a fourth species of Diadumene was introduced into San Francisco Bay (Carlton, 1979a). Its morphology and distribution in the Bay were extensively studied by T. Blanchard, whose work and taxonomic conclusions remain unpublished, but who felt that there was a "strong case for conspecificity" with the European (primarily British) Diadumene cincta. We tentatively use that name for this anemone, to which it is morphologically very similar. Diadumene cincta occurs in Britain both on open marine shores and in estuaries, tidal creeks, and harbors (Manuel, 1981). Blanchard also found the same species in Humboldt Bay (T. Blanchard, pers. comm., 1988). Blanchard (pers. comm., 1988) has provided the following information about this anemone in San Francisco Bay. Diadumene ?cincta has a column diameter of about 15-20 mm and a column height of up to five or more times the width. The most common variety of Diadumene ?cincta on dock floats is solid orange, but pink forms also occur, most commonly sublittorally on pilings and in the mid to low intertidal zone in protected locations. Specimens also occur sublittorally on shells partially buried in sediment. White markings on the oral disk are common on the pink forms, but have not been observed on orange specimens. The anemone commonly forms clonal aggregations of up to 200 individuals in fouling, a character typical of the European D. cincta (Manuel, 1981); it may also occur singly. As this anemone is not described in Hand (1975) nor in other guides to Pacific coast marine life, it may be mistaken for Diadumene leucolena or stripeless Haliplanella lineata. We tentatively assign an Atlantic origin to this species. It was probably introduced either in ship fouling or ballast water. Diadumene franciscana Hand, 1956 SAN FRANCISCO ANEMONE This usually white-striped introduced anemone of unknown origin has been reported from San Francisco Bay (before 1941), Morro Bay (1973) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 250) and Mission Bay (1977-78) (Dygert, 1981), and we collected it in Tomales Bay in 1995 (identified by C. Hand). Carlton (1979a) suggested that it may originate from the southern Pacific or Indian 0ceans, rather than from the Atlantic, where the anemone fauna is better known. As the anemone fauna of Japan is also relatively well studied, oyster transplantation from either the Atlantic or from Japan is not the likely mechanism of introduction. As it is a common float and piling fouling organism locally in San Francisco Bay, it may have been introduced as hull fouling, or else in ballast water. Diadumene franciscana can be very common in the warm margins of the Bay where other species, such as the tubeworm Ficopomatus enigmaticus and the barnacle Balanus amphitrite amphitrite of known warm-water origin are also common. Its presence in warm-water thermal effluents in Morro Bay (to where it was likely

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introduced from San Francisco Bay) is also suggestive of a warm temperate or subtropical origin. The first record of this anemone is that of Light (1941, as a "double-striped anemone" from Fruitvale Bridge), whose records were based upon his field observations made in the Bay since the 1920s. Diadumene leucolena (Verrill, 1866) WHITE ANEMONE This Atlantic anemone, occurring from at least Cape Cod to South Carolina, was first reported from the Oakland Estuary by Sander (1936), although it may have been present in the Bay since the 19th century. Hand (1956) described it in detail from the Bay. It is common to abundant along the Bay margin, in fouling communities, under rocks, and on oyster shells, and may have been introduced with oyster shipments (it is recorded from Atlantic coast oyster beds; Wells, 1961), as ship fouling or in ballast water. It has also been reported from southern California bays and from Coos Bay, Oregon (Carlton, 1979a, p. 248). Diadumene lineata (Verrill, 1873) ORANGE-STRIPED GREEN ANEMONE SYNONYMS: Haliplanella lineata Haliplanella luciae (Verrill, 1898) Diadumene luciae Aiptasiomorpha luciae This abundant, often orange-striped anemone, known in most literature as Haliplanella luciae (Verrill, 1898), was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1906 (Davis, 1919), and has since been collected from bays and harbors from Newport Bay to British Columbia (Carlton, 1979a, p. 253). It is now one of the most common anemones along the margins of San Francisco Bay, occurring in habitats ranging from fouling communities to bits of shell on open mudflats to brackish marsh channels. A native of Japan, it has been widely dispersed around the world by both shipping and by the movement of commercial oysters, either or both of which mechanisms could have brought it to the Bay. That it may have arrived with the large volumes of Atlantic oysters brought to the Bay in the 1890s is suggested by its late appearance in New England (1892; Verrill, 1898) and its presence in Atlantic coast oyster beds (Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973), and it may thus be another example of the many species whose arrival in one region (in this case San Francisco Bay) was contingent upon its introduction to another region (New England) thus interfacing with an ongoing transport vector and dispersal corridor (the commercial oyster industry). Haliplanella has the ability, perhaps unique among the anemones, to encyst, leaving behind upon excystment a tough capsule (Kiener, 1972). This remarkable characteristic has likely conferred upon Haliplanella an unusual ability to survive longdistance transport under severe conditions (Carlton, 1979a). The introduced nudibranch Cuthona perca feeds upon Haliplanella in the Bay (McDonald, 1975; Carlton, 1979a).

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ANNELIDA Oligochaeta Of all the common macroinvertebrates in San Francisco Bay, the oligochaetes are perhaps the poorest known relative to the comparative diversity of native versus introduced species. We recognize here eight introduced oligochaetes and list four others as cryptogenic (Chapter 4), although the latter are frequently abundant and embedded in communities otherwise composed of non-native species. Annelid taxonomy is widely recognized as a difficult and complex field; and although we know relatively little about the Bay's polychaetes, we know even less about its oligochaetes. Each of the following species of oligochaetes could have been present in San Francisco Bay for many decades, if not since the 19th century, before they were first collected in the 1950s and 1960s. We thus regard the dates of first collection of most of the following species as artifacts of the collecting effort. The decades- to century-long uncertainty in the actual dates of introduction makes it hard to determine transport mechanisms. We generally consider ships' solid ballast and water ballast, shipments of commercial oysters, and shipments of aquatic plants to be possible vectors. Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard, 1892 [TUBIFICIDAE] This oligochaete, native to tropical and subtropical Asia (India, Myanmar (Burma), Java, China, Japan), was first collected in 1892 from the mud of the Victoria regia tank in the garden of the Royal Botanic Society in Regent's Park, London. Over the next 30 years it was collected from other warm-water tanks in botanic gardens at Hamburg, Dublin, Kew and Oxford. By the late 1950s it had been found "in the wild" in the Rhone River and elsewhere in southern France, in the Thames River below Reading in water warmed by effluent from a power station, and in unheated waters in the Kennet and Avon Canal and in the Bradford River Avon in England (Mann, 1958). It has also been reported from north and west Africa (Brinkhurst, 1965). It was first collected in North America in central Ohio in 1930 (Spencer, 1932), and spread to the Great Lakes by 1951 (Mills et al., 1993) and to a total of eighteen states by 1966 (Brinkhurst, 1965; Cole, 1966). In California it was collected from the San Joaquin River in 1950, from the Tuolomne River near Modesto in 1952 (Brinkhurst, 1965), and from the Delta in 1963 (specimen at CASIZ). The California Department of Water Resources has collected it throughout most of the Delta since sampling started in 1977 (from the western Delta upstream to the Mokelumne River, Courtland on the Sacramento River, and Stockton on the San Joaquin River), at densities of up to 823/m2 (Markmann, 1986; DWR, 1995). We found no other records of Branchiura on the Pacific coast. Branchiura could have been transported to California in ships' solid or water ballast or on ornamental aquatic plants. Limnodrilus monothecus (Cook, 1974) [TUBIFICIDAE] Although first described from Bahia de San Quintin, Baja California based upon specimens collected in 1960 (Cook, 1974), Erseus (1982) demonstrated that this marine and estuarine species is widely distributed from the mid-Atlantic coast to the Gulf of Mexico, and was only found in three stations in British Columbia, southern California,

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and Bahia de San Quintin on the Pacific coast. Nichols & Thompson (1985) record it from their south San Francisco Bay mudflat stations, where they treated it as cryptogenic. It appears, however, to be an Atlantic species introduced to west coast estuaries. It could have arrived in ships' solid or water ballast or in shipments of commercial oysters. Paranais frici Hrabe, 1941 [NAIDIDAE] Brinkhurst & Cook (1980) regard the fresh and brackish water P. frici as a European (Sarmatic) species introduced into North America. Brinkhurst & Simmons (1968) found it to be one of two abundant oligochaetes in Suisun Bay in 1961-62. It was collected in the eastern Delta (Mokelumne River) in 1977-79, and in the western and central Delta in 1980-95, at concentrations up to 1,296/m2. Brinkhurst & Coates (1985) also report it from Newport Bay, California and Fraser River, British Columbia, and note that it has been further reported from Africa and South America. It could have arrived in California in ships' solid or water ballast or on ornamental aquatic plants. Potamothrix bavaricus (Oschman, 1913) [TUBIFICIDAE] This freshwater Eurasian species was regarded as "possibly" introduced to eastern North America by Brinkhurst (1965), who further recorded a population (collected by R. Whitsel, no date given) from Coyote Creek, in Santa Clara County. We tentatively regard it as introduced, if the identification is correct. It has been reported from the central and western Delta since 1991, at concentrations up to 415/m2 (DWR, 1995). It could have arrived in California in ships' solid or water ballast or on ornamental aquatic plants. Tubificoides apectinatus (Brinkhurst, 1965) [TUBIFICIDAE] This common North Atlantic coast marine oligochaete (Brinkhurst, 1981, 1985) was found to be abundant in South San Francisco Bay sediments in 1961-62 collections (Brinkhurst & Simmons, 1968, as Peloscolex apectinatus). It could have arrived in ships' solid or water ballast or in shipments of commercial oysters. Tubificoides brownae Brinkhurst & Baker, 1979 [TUBIFICIDAE] SYNONYMS: Peloscolex gabriellae of authors This North Atlantic marine oligochaete (described from Delaware, and known from other Atlantic coastal sites as well as Europe) was treated by Brinkhurst & Simmons (1968) as Peloscolex gabriellae (in part), from the South Bay (Brinkhurst, 1986). It is also known from Coos Bay, Oregon (Brinkhurst, 1986). Nichols & Thompson (1985) reported it as a cryptogenic member of the South San Francisco Bay mudflat community. We regard it is as introduced based upon its broad Atlantic distribution and its apparently restricted distribution in the Pacific Ocean. It could have arrived in California in ships' solid or water ballast or in shipments of commercial oysters.

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Brinkhurst & Simmons (1968) examined specimens collected in 1961-62. Brinkhurst (1965), under the name Peloscolex gabriellae, records material from 1957 (collected by M. Jones) from Point Richmond, but it is not clear if these specimens are referable to T. brownae or to T. wasselli (below). The California Department of Water Resources reports T. brownae collected in small numbers from Grizzly Bay and Pt. Pinole since 1987 (DWR, 1995). Tubificoides wasselli Brinkhurst & Baker, 1979 [TUBIFICIDAE] This Atlantic marine tubificid is known from Delaware to the Gulf of Mexico (Brinkhurst, 1986). San Francisco Bay populations collected in 1961-62 and identified by Brinkhurst & Simmons (1968) as a papillate form of Peloscolex gabriellae are now considered to be this species (Brinkhurst, 1986). It is otherwise known from Victoria, British Columbia (Brinkhurst, 1986). It could have arrived in California in ships' solid or water ballast or in shipments of commercial oysters. Varichaetadrilus angustipenis (Brinkhurst & Cook, 1966) [TUBIFICIDAE] SYNONYMS: Limnodrilus angustipenis This eastern United States species (Brinkhurst, 1971; Strayer, 1990; Erseus et al., 1990) occurs widely in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in freshwater muddy sediments. It was collected by the California Department of Water Resources at least as early as 1982 in stations near the western end of Sherman Island. Hymanson et al. (1994) reported that it was one of the numerically dominant species at these sites from 1982-86, concluding that it and Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri (here treated as cryptogenic) "are among the few native benthic organisms that have maintained their numerical dominance and broad distribution..." V. angustipenis could have arrived on the Pacific coast in ballast water or on ornamental aquatic plants.

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Polychaeta Boccardiella ligerica (Ferronnire, 1898) [SPIONIDAE] SYNONYMS: Boccardia ligerica Ferronnire, 1898 Boccardia nr. uncata Polydora uncata Polydora redeki Horst This spionid worm is native to the brackish waters and mudflats of France, Holland and Germany. A single specimen identified as Boccardiella ligerica was collected from Newport Bay in 1935 (Kudenov, 1983). B. ligerica was collected from San Francisco Bay in the San Pablo Channel by 1954 and from the Delta-Mendota Canal, in fresh water, in 1973 (Light, 1977; Carlton, 1979a, p. 305). It was also collected from freshwater in the New River and the Alamo River in Imperial County in southeastern California in 1979, and from a canal in Mar Chiquita, Argentina with the Australian serpulid worm Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Kudenov, 1983). Boccardiella ligerica may have been introduced with ships' ballast water, perhaps during World War II or the Korean War. Spionid larvae are among the most abundant and frequently encountered groups of organisms in ballast water (Carlton & Geller, 1993). B. ligerica was one of the most common benthic organisms collected by CDFG near Martinez in 1975-1981, and was found upstream as far as Collinsville in the western Delta (Markman, 1986). In 1976, a dry year, Siegfried et al. (1980) found B. ligerica to be a dominant species at their upstream stations near Collinsville in the late summer and fall, with peak densities of around 20,000 individuals/m2, and Markman (1986) similarly reported an increase in B. ligerica upstream in the dry year of 1981. Light (1978, p. 201) summarizing recent studies showed B. ligerica collected only from the ends of the Bay: at the southern end of the South Bay and from Martinez to the Antioch bridge in the northern Bay. Ficopomatus enigmaticus (Fauvel, 1923) [SERPULIDAE] AUSTRALIAN TUBEWORM SYNONYMS: Mercierella enigmatica Ficopomatus enigmaticus is an Australian worm that builds and lives in a white, calcareous tube, the tubes forming large agglomerate masses when the worm is abundant. Reported from ships' hulls (WHOI, 1952) and probably transported as hull fouling, it has become established in many parts of the world including the Black, Caspian and Mediterranean seas, northern Europe, Uruguay, Argentina, Hawaii, Japan and the Gulf of Mexico. It was first reported in San Francisco Bay from Lake Merritt, a tidal lagoon on the East Bay shore, in a 1921 article in the Oakland Tribune headlined "Coral Reefs Spreading in Lake Merritt." The "reefs" had been first noticed by park officials about a year earlier. It was also in 1921 that F. enigmaticus was discovered and described in France, and discovered at the London docks (Carlton, 1979a). F. enigmaticus apparently requires water temperatures of at least 18C to breed (Obenat & Pezzani, 1994), and in

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Europe it frequently lives in water heated by the cooling water effluent from power plants (Vaas; 1978). In the Netherlands its colonies have interfered with lock operations (Vaas; 1978). F. enigmaticus has been collected from many sites in the South, Central and San Pablo bays, sometimes in dense masses, especially from enclosed lagoons or protected waters. These sites include Aquatic Park Lagoon in Berkeley (first appeared between 1942 and 1946, and still abundant), Alameda Lagoons (abundant in 1971, scarce in the 1990s), Berkeley Yacht Harbor (1969), San Rafael and Corte Madera Creek (1970), Palo Alto Yacht Harbor and China Camp (1974), Foster City Lagoons and Belvedere Lagoons (before 1979), and the Petaluma River Turning Basin (abundant in 1993; see Carlton, 1979a, p. 331, for references on the other records). It is less abundant now in Lake Merritt than it was in the 1920s and the 1960s-70s. Newman's (1963) report of a serpulid worm "comparable to Mercierella enigmatica" in the seawater system of a naval vessel docked in San Francisco Bay suggests that it may have been introduced more than once. Heteromastus filiformis (Claparede, 1864) [CAPITELLIDAE] Heteromastus filiformis is native to the Atlantic coast of the United States from New England to the Gulf of Mexico, and has also been reported from Greenland, Sweden, the Mediterranean, Morocco, South Africa, the Persian Gulf, New Zealand, Japan, and the Bering and Chukchi Seas. The wide temperature range covered by these locations suggests that more than one species may be involved. In California Heteromastus was collected from San Francisco Bay in 1936, from Morro Bay in 1960, possibly from southern California by 1961, and from Bolinas Lagoon by 1969. It was collected from Vancouver Island in 1962, from Coos Bay, Oregon in 1970 (pers. obs.), and from Grays Harbor, Washington by 1977 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 322). As with other polychaetes first collected on the Pacific Coast in the 1930s by Olga Hartman (including Polydora ligni and Streblospio benedicti in San Francisco Bay), Heteromastus filiformis may have been present but undetected for many decades due to the lack of earlier investigations of intertidal polychaetes on this coast. Thus this muddwelling capitellid worm may have been introduced to San Francisco Bay in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century with Atlantic oysters, (with which it occurs; Wells, 1961), or may have been an early ballast water introduction. Heteromastus filiformis is commonly collected from the far South Bay to the western half of Suisun Bay at concentrations of 10 to 4000 per square meter, and has been collected upstream to Pittsburg (Hopkins, 1986; Markmann, 1986). It is one of the most common benthic organisms in the shallows of San Pablo Bay and the channels of the South Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a). Manayunkia speciosa Leidy, 1858 [SABELLIDAE] SYNONYMS: Manayunkia eriensis (Krecker, 1939) Manayunkia speciosa is a freshwater polychaete native to eastern North America from the westernmost Great Lakes, New York and Lake Champlain in Vermont south to the Savannah River in South Carolina (Klemm, 1985). It was collected from two

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small, shallow lakes in northern Alaska in 1961 and 1964, and from Sevenmile Canal in Klamath County, Oregon in 1964 (Hazel, 1966; Holmquist, 1967; Croskery, 1978). It was first collected in California from the Mokelumne River near New Hope Landing in the eastern Delta in 1963 (Hazel, 1966). Hartman's (1969) report of this species from San Pablo and Suisun bays appears to be based on a misreading of earlier reports. This tube-dwelling, colonial worm has neither a resting stage nor a planktonic or swimming stage that might aid dispersal or transport in wateryoung worms mature within the parental tube and emerge as small, crawling adults to build tubes nearby (Holmquist, 1967; Croskery, 1978). However, transport in detritus carried in water may be possible. Hazel (1966) suggested that M. speciosa arrived in the Delta in the water in which freshwater gamefish from the eastern United States were transported. Hazel (1966), citing Smith (1896), noted as pertinent the fact that white catfish Ictalurus (now Ameiurus) catus introduced to the Delta in 1874 were taken from the Schuylkill River, Pennsylvania, the type locality for M. speciosa. However, although Smith (1896) describes these as "white catfish or Schuylkill catfish," he clearly states that the fish transported to California were taken from the Raritan River, New Jersey. Thus "Schuylkill" appears to be part of a common name for these fish, rather than the site from which they were collected. Although most or all of the freshwater fish introduced to California from the northeastern United States appear to have been planted in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century (Table 1) and Manayunkia was not discovered in California until 1963, it is possible that this small polychaete was present and overlooked for a long time (Holmquist, 1967; Mackie & Qadri, 1971). Alternatively, it may have been transported in detritus floating in freshwater ballast. Manayunkia is the fourth most numerous benthic invertebrate collected by the California Department of Water Resources in the Delta, with densities in the interior of the Delta of 2,000 to 50,000 individuals/m2. It apparently requires fresh water and silty substrates, and is found in the eastern portions of the Delta downstream to Frank's Tract and Rio Vista, with questionable records from a few stations further downstream (Markmann, 1986; Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Hymanson et al., 1994). Marenzelleria viridis (Verrill, 1873) [SPIONIDAE] SYNONYMS: Scolecolepis viridis Scolecolepis tenuis Scolecolepides viridis Marenzelleria viridis is native to the northwestern Atlantic and was collected in Germany in 1983, probably having been introduced via ballast water (Essink & Kleef, 1993). It spread though western and northern Europe and into the Baltic Sea, where it is now extremely abundant. It was first collected on the Pacific coast in Nov. 1991 at Collinsville on the Sacramento River, at which station it has been found most consistently and abundantly at up to 1700 worms/m2. It has since been collected from Frank's Tract and the Old River in the Delta downstream to Grizzly Bay in 1992, in San Pablo Bay in 1995, and in the far South Bay (M. Kellogg, pers. comm., 1995; W. Fields, pers. comm., 1995; DWR, 1995). It probably arrived in ballast water. Marphysa sanguinea (Montagu, 1815) [EUNICIDAE]

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Marphysa sanguinea is regarded as a single cosmopolitan species, but likely consists of several difficult-to-distinguish but distinct taxa. It is reported from Europe (from Great Britain to the Mediterranean), the western Atlantic (Massachusetts to the West Indies, the Gulf of Mexico, Bermuda and the Bahamas), Japan, China, and from Australasia to the Red Sea and Africa. In the eastern Pacific it has been known from San Francisco Bay since 1969, and from various sites between Los Angeles and Panama (Carlton, 1979a, p. 302). The San Francisco Bay population may have been introduced from the Atlantic with shipments of oysters, with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast (Wells, 1961), or it may have been introduced in ballast water. Hopkins (1969) reported M. sanguinea as common at concentrations of 10-200 per square meter, but found only in the South Bay south of Hunters Point, and most commonly in the channels. Nereis succinea (Frey & Leuckart, 1847) [NEREIDAE] PILE WORM SYNONYMS: Neanthes succinea Nereis saltoni Hartman, 1936 Nereis limbata Webster, 1879 This euryhaline "pile worm" lives in a variety of habitats: under rocks, in mud and sand, in oyster beds and in fouling communities. It is reported from locations around the world, including the eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean; the western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the West Indies, Gulf of Mexico and South America; West Africa and South Africa; and the tropical eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California to Colombia (Carlton, 1979a, p. 295). These reports may involve a single species transported synanthropically about the globe, or multiple, closely-related species. In California it has been collected from San Francisco Bay (earliest records from 1896), the Salton Sea (from 1935), Tomales Bay (1941), several southern California bays (from 1952), and in Oregon from Netarts Bay (1976) (Carlton, 1979a) and Coos Bay (1986; pers. obs.). The San Francisco Bay population probably originated in the western North Atlantic and arrived in shipments of Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973) or in ship fouling. It may have been independently introduced to southern California bays in ballast water or as fouling, or secondarily introduced from San Francisco Bay by coastal shipping. Nereis succinea is common in San Francisco Bay in waters of less than two meters depth, generally at concentrations of 10-400 individuals/m2. It has mainly been collected in the northern Bay from San Pablo Bay to Antioch, and in the far South Bay below the Dumbarton Bridge (Hopkins, 1986). It is one of the dominant benthic organisms in Suisun Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a). As discussed by Oglesby (1965), the native worm Nereis vexillosa occupies more marine waters in the Central Bay and the native Nereis limnicola occupies fresher waters in the Delta. Nereis succinea may thus have squeezed in between two existing pile worm populations, with each population restricted by a combination of physiological limitations and competition with its neighbors.

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Recher (1966) noted Nereis succinea in the diet of shorebirds in the South Bay, and Oglesby (1965b) reported on infection by the trematode parasite Parvatrema borealis along the East Bay shore. Carlton (1979a) summarizes other research on the worm's physiology and ecology. Polydora ligni Webster, 1879 [SPIONIDAE] MUD WORM SYNONYMS: Polydora amarincola Hartman, 1936 Polydora ligni is native to the northern Atlantic where it is found in mudflats, fouling (including ship fouling; Hartman, 1961) and oyster beds, sometimes forming thick mud beds that cause extensive oyster mortalities. In the Pacific it was first collected in Ladysmith Harbor, British Columbia in 1932 ("on [oyster] cultch sacks"), in San Francisco Bay in 1933 (redescribed as Polydora amarincola), and in False Bay on San Juan Island, Washington in 1937. It has since been reported from other bays and harbors in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon, and from Drakes Estero, Bolinas Lagoon, Elkhorn Slough, Morro Bay, Mugu Lagoon, Santa Monica Bay, Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbors, Alamitos Bay, Anaheim Bay, Santa Catalina Island, Mission Bay and the Salton Sea in California (see Carlton, 1979a, p. 306, for references). There are a few records, questioned by Carlton (1979a), from Mexico. As with Heteromastus filiformis, Polydora ligni could have been transported to the Pacific coast with Atlantic oysters decades earlier and overlooked, or transported in ballast water (larvae of Polydora species have been found to survive transport in ballast tanks; Carlton, 1985, p. 345), or possibly in ship fouling. Considerable movement between embayments along the coast may have occurred with shellfish transplants or coastal shipping. In San Francisco Bay it has been collected from the far South Bay to Carquinez Strait (Light, 1977, 1978), and is one of the more common benthic organisms in the shallows of San Pablo Bay and the channels of the South Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a). Potamilla sp. [SABELLIDAE] This worm was first collected in June 1989 at Sherman Lake in the western Delta by the California Department of Water Resources. It has been found from Frank's Tract and the Old River in the Delta downstream to Grizzly Bay, and is most common at or just upstream of the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, where it has reached densities of over 16,000/m2 (W. Fields, pers. comm., 1995; DWR, 1995). Its absence from Delta samplings in previous decades suggest a relatively recent introduction. It was probably introduced in ballast water. Pseudopolydora kempi (Southern, 1921) [SPIONIDAE] SYNONYMS: Neopygospio laminifera Berkeley & Berkeley, 1954 Pseudopolydora kempi californica Light, 1969 Pseudopolydora kempi japonica Imajima & Hartman, 1964

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This spionid worm has been reported from Mozambique, India, Japan and the Kurile Islands, in waters ranging from marine salinities down to 6 ppt (Light, 1969). It was first collected in the eastern Pacific in 1951 at Nanaimo, British Columbia, and later from False Bay, San Juan Island (1968) in Washington and Yaquina Bay (1974), Netarts Bay (1976) and Coos Bay (1977; JTC, pers. obs.) in Oregon. In California it appeared in Morro Bay (1960), Bolinas Lagoon (1967), San Francisco Bay (1972), and Bodega Harbor, Tomales Bay and Anaheim Bay (1975) (references in Carlton, 1979a, p. 310). Many of these sites have received shipments of the oyster Crassostrea gigas from Japan, possibly containing this worm. Alternatively it could have been transported in ballast water or ship fouling. Light (1969) found that the California specimens more closely resembled Indian than Japanese P. kempi. In California P. kempi occurs intertidally and subtidally on mud and sand. It has been collected in San Francisco Bay from the far South Bay to the western end of Carquinez Strait (Light, 1977, 1978). Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata (Okuda, 1937) [SPIONIDAE] SYNONYMS: Polydora paucibranchiata P. paucibranchiata was described from Japan. It was first reported from Australia in 1973 (Carlton, 1985) may also be present in New Zealand. It was reported from Los Angeles Harbor in 1950 and thereafter from other southern California sites: Newport Bay in 1951, San Diego Bay in 1952, Alamitos Bay in 1958, Anaheim Bay and Santa Barbara in 1975, and Mission Bay (in densities up to 60,000 individuals/m2) by 1981 (Carlton, 1979a; Levin, 1981). It was collected in South San Francisco Bay (Hunters Point and Oakland Inner Harbor) in 1973, Elkhorn Slough, Bodega Harbor and Tomales Bay in 1975 (where it "may be the dominant spionid polychaete on many sand flats;" Blake, 1975), and Netarts Bay, Oregon in 1976 (Light, 1977; Carlton, 1979a, p. 312). Summarizing recent studies, Light (1978, p. 200) showed P. paucibranchiata collected from the South Bay to the western end of Carquinez Strait. It may have been introduced to the northeastern Pacific in ballast water or in fouling on ships, possibly related to increased ship traffic during or after the Korean War, or with Japanese oysters.

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Sabaco elongatus (Verrill, 1873) [MALDANIDAE] BAMBOO WORM SYNONYMS: Asychis elongata Asychis amphiglypta (Ehlers) Maldane elongata Maldanopsis elongata Brachioasychis colmani Brachioasychis americana This common "bamboo worm" is native to the western Atlantic from Maine to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and British Honduras (Light, 1974). It was first reported from south San Francisco Bay in 1960 (Berkeley & Berkeley, 1960) and probably collected in the 1950s (Carlton, 1979a, p. 324). It is now extremely common, typically found in concentrations of 10-1,000 individuals/m2 at most stations from the far South Bay to mid-San Pablo Bay, and in concentrations of 1,000-5,000 individuals/m2 along the eastern shore of the Central Bay. It is not found upstream of San Pablo Bay (Hopkins, 1986). Light (1974) suggested that Sabaco was introduced with Atlantic oysters. As there had been no systematic subtidal benthic sampling in San Francisco Bay since the 1912-13 Albatross survey, it is conceivable that it was a late introduction with oysters in the 1920s or 1930s and overlooked for 30 years. Alternatively, it may have been introduced with ballast water. Streblospio benedicti Webster, 1879 [SPIONIDAE] SYNONYMS: Streblospio lutincola Hartman, 1936 Streblospio benedicti is common in the western Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela, and is also found in northern Europe and the Mediterranean and Black seas. It was collected at Berkeley in San Francisco Bay in 1932, in Tomales Bay and Bodega Harbor by 1936, and in subsequent years in several other estuaries south to Newport Bay and north to Grays Harbor, Washington (records in Carlton, 1979a, p. 314). As with Polydora ligni, the other spionid discovered in San Francisco Bay in the 1930s, Streblospio could have been introduced with Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973), in ballast water, or possibly in ship fouling, and moved along the Pacific coast with shellfish transplants or coastal shipping. In San Francisco Bay Streblospio benedicti has been collected from the far South Bay to Antioch, commonly at densities of 1-10,000 individuals/m2 in the channels and up to 50,000 or more individuals/m2 in near shore areas, especially in constricted embayments (Light, 1978; Hopkins, 1986). It is one of the most common benthic organisms in the shallows of San Pablo Bay and the channels of the South Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a).

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MOLLUSCA: GASTROPOD Busycotypus canaliculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) [MELONGENIDAE] CHANNELED WHELK SYNONYMS: Busycon canaliculatum Busycon pyrum The channeled whelk, a native of the western Atlantic from Massachusetts to Florida, is now by far the largest snail in San Francisco Bay. As discussed by Carlton (1979a), Stohler (1962) stated that the whelk was first collected in the Bay at Alameda in 1948, but specimens from Berkeley at the California Academy of Sciences may have been collected as early as 1938. There are records and frequent observations of the whelk on the eastern shore of the Bay from Alameda and Bay Farm Island to Berkeley, and on the western shore from Belmont Slough to Candlestick Point. One specimen was collected in 1953 from the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County (Stohler, 1962, Carlton, 1979a, p. 397). The channeled whelk feeds on bivalves. It produces distinctive strings of egg cases that release crawling (nonplanktonic) snails. Natural dispersal may be achieved by floating egg cases, one string of which was collected at Bolinas Lagoon. The whelk may have been introduced to San Francisco Bay with some of the later and smaller shipments of Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling 1973), but could also have been released from a private or school aquarium. Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata (Reeve, 1863) [VIVIPARIDAE] CHINESE MYSTERY SNAIL SYNONYMS: Viviparus malleatus Cipangopaludina malleata Viviparus stelmaphorus Bourguignat A long history of revisions and disagreements over identification, reviewed here with regard to Bay and Delta area specimens, leaves it unclear whether one or two (or possibly more) species of Japanese or Chinese viviparids have been introduced into California. In 1892 Wood reported buying live snails from Japan at a Chinese market in San Francisco, at a price of ten cents per dozen, and found "that each specimen contained inside, from twelve to eighteen young shells." The snails were identified by W. J. Raymond as Paludina japonica Martens. Wood's specimens were later separated by TienChien Yen at the California Academy of Sciences into three lots identified as Viviparus japonicus, Viviparus japonicus inakawa and Viviparus stelmaphorus. The last of these is accompanied by Wood's business card with the notation: "Bought alive for 10 cents a dozen at a Chinese vegetable store on Wed. morning, Nov 18/91- Came from China." Stearns (1901) described Wood's snails as "being part of the first lot brought alive from Japan, where they are collected in the rice-fields near Yokohama, and are sold for a few cents a quart."

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Sorenson (1950) recalled purchasing Viviparus malleatus in Fresno's Chinatown in 1895 which "had been imported from Chinese rice fields to Fresno for the thousands of Chinese vineyard workers there." In 1901 Stearns reported receiving a few snails from the San Jose or Mt. Hamilton area "a year or more ago." One living specimen was examined and identified by Pilsbry as "Vivipara stelmaphora Bgt. (=V. malleata Rve.)." Later Hannibal (1908) found no viviparids in the Mt. Hamilton area, but between San Jose and San Francisco Bay collected snails identified by Dall as Vivipara lecythoides Bensen. He reported these as "introduced by the Chinese fifteen or twenty years ago" and "common where planted, but spreads slowly." A few years later, Hannibal (1911) reported that on re-examination both these snails and Wood's snails in Raymond's collection were Viviparus malleatus Reeve, which he said were "brought from Yokohama and originally planted between Alameda and Centerville [a small town 18 miles east of Fresno] to supply the markets of San Francisco Bay...whence colonies have been distributed to a number of points in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley as well. This is verified by specimens from an irrigating ditch near Fresno." However, Hannibal reported that he also found Vivipara japonica, "readily distinguished from malleatus," in an irrigation ditch at Hanford, about 30 miles southeast of Fresno. The first record of introduced viviparids within the study zone consists of five shells at the California Academy of Sciences, labeled as malleata, collected from a slough near Holt in the Delta in 1938. Other specimens from within or near the Delta include eight snails collected from a canal north of Stockton in 1933, three snails from Victoria Island in 1941, eight snails from Sycamore Slough in 1946, and two undated snails from a slough near Stockton, all labeled as malleata. Greg (1948) reported finding a few live and many broken shells of Vivipara malleata in irrigation ditches near Stockton, speculating that muskrat may have been eating the snails. Sorenson (1950) reported collecting Viviparus malleatus from an irrigation canal 60 miles northwest of Fresno in 1948. Also, the wet collections at the California Academy of Sciences include two viviparid snails labeled Bellamya japonica that were collected at Stockton in 1968. Hanna (1966), referred all existing western North America records to Viviparus stelmaphorus, based on finding enough variation in shell morphology in specimens from a single locality to encompass records that had been reported as malleata, japonica, iwakawa or lecythoides. He reported that the snails were still for sale in San Francisco markets and very abundant throughout the Delta and in irrigation canals, and in Mountain Lake and Stow Lake in San Francisco. Taylor (1981) assigned these various California records to two species, Bellamya japonica (including Wood's 1891 market specimens, Hannibal's 1911 Hanford record, and records from Mountain Lake) and Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata (apparently including all other California records known to him), which he listed as occurring in irrigation ditches, sloughs and ponds from the Central Valley and San Francisco Bay area to southern California. He reported both species present in California since 1891. Based upon these records, we conclude that the Chinese mystery snail is established in the study region. The current distribution and status of the Japanese mystery snail (placed in Bellamya by Taylor (1981) and in Cipangopaludina by Turgeon et al. (1988)) remains to be determined in the Bay area. Viviparid snails from these one or more species have been reported from many other North American locations, including: the Chinese market at Victoria, British Columbia (Pilsbry & Johnson, 1894); Muddy River in Boston's Fenway (from 1914 to at least 1942); Worcester, Massachusetts (1917); Philadelphia (1925), at St. Petersburg, Florida and near Niagara Falls (1942); Ottawa, Sioux City, Iowa and Seattle (1943); near

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Agassiz, British Columbia (collected by 1948, but reportedly planted in 1908); Lake Erie (1940s); Jefferson County, Washington (1964); and Hawaii (by 1976) (La Rocque, 1948; Abbott, 1950; Mills et al., 1993; and specimens at the California Academy of Sciences). These snails are both used as food items and commonly sold by dealers of aquarium fish, which has undoubtedly helped to spread them (La Rocque, 1948; Abbott, 1950). They were reportedly introduced to Sandusky Bay, Lake Erie to feed channel catfish in the 1940s, and became so abundant by the 1960s that they were a nuisance to commercial seine fisherman, who reported sometimes catching two tons in a single seine haul (Wolfert & Hiltunen, 1968). Crepidula convexa Say, 1822 [CALYPTRAEIDAE] CONVEX SLIPPER SHELL SYNONYM: Crepidula glauca Say, 1822

This slipper shell is native to the western Atlantic, where it is found from Nova Scotia to Florida and Puerto Rico. It was first collected in San Francisco in 1898, from oyster beds, and was almost certainly introduced in shipments of Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961). In San Francisco Bay Hopkins (1986) reported Crepidula spp. mainly from the South Bay, where C. convexa is commonly found on shells of the native oyster Ostrea lurida and the Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta. It is not known from any other Pacific coast site (Carlton, 1979a, p. 370). Crepidula plana Say, 1822 [CALYPTRAEIDAE] EASTERN WHITE SLIPPER SHELL Crepidula plana is native to the western Atlantic with a recorded range from Prince Edward Island to South America. It was first reported on the Pacific Coast from the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in 1901, where it was probably introduced with shipments of Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961), and was found in Willapa Bay and Puget Sound in the 1930s and 1940s (Carlton, 1979a, p. 376). C. plana is similar to and may be mistaken for the native flat slipper shells C. perforans and C. nummaria, and in fact went unreported in the Bay, though occasionally collected and misidentified or unnoticed, for many decades after its initial sighting. It is found considerably further into the estuary than the native slipper shells which are restricted to the outer, more marine portions of the Central Bay. On both the Atlantic coast and in San Francisco Bay, C. plana is common on the inside of hermit craboccupied snail shells.

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Ilyanassa obsoleta (Say, 1822) [NASSARIIDAE] EASTERN MUDSNAIL SYNONYMS: Nassarius obsoletus This mudsnail is native to the western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida. It was introduced to the Pacific Coast with shipments of Atlantic oysters (it is reported from oyster beds on the Atlantic coast; Wells, 1961), and was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1907 from beds of Atlantic oysters at Alameda. Carlton (1979a) suggests that it was probably introduced between 1901 and 1907, as its presence in the Bay was unlikely to have been missed for very long due to the intensive activities of shell collectors in the area beginning in the 1890s. Ilyanassa has also established breeding populations in Willapa Bay, Washington and Boundary Bay, British Columbia, first reported in 1945 and 1952 respectively but possibly present for a considerable time earlier. It has also been reported from but apparently not established populations in five additional Pacific Coast sites, as discussed by Carlton (1979a, p. 404): Tomales Bay (1920s-1930s?), "Bolinas Bay" (1920s or earlier), Humboldt Bay (1930), Birch Bay, British Columbia (1950s), and one specimen from Bodega Bay (1968). Ilyanassa is today the dominant mudflat gastropod in San Francisco Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985b), and is also sometimes abundant in salt marshes and marsh sloughs and on pilings. Hopkins (1986) reported it mainly from the southern part of the South Bay and from San Pablo Bay, and we have also seen it abundant at Alameda. Although intensively studied in the Atlantic (with, for example, studies demonstrating significant effects on mudflat community structure and sediment composition (Grant, 1965; Sibert, 1968)), there has been relatively little work on the Pacific Coast. Ilyanassa is listed or mentioned in many faunal surveys and checklists and bird diet studies (e. g. Painter (1966) lists it an important food of diving ducks, but Williams (1929) and Moffitt (1941) found it to be a minor or negligible food for California clapper rail), and a few studies contain brief notes on its ecology (Carpelan, 1957; Filice, 1959a; Quayle, 1964a; Vassallo, 1969). Its distributional ecology in Lake Merritt is the subject of an unpublished master's thesis (Gilmore, 1935). Grodhaus and Keh (1959) found it to harbor five species of trematode flatworms, including the schistosome Austrobilharzia variglandis which is responsible for "swimmers' itch." Race (1979, 1982) demonstrated competitive displacement and predation of the native hornsnail Cerithidea californica, as discussed in Chapter 6. Littorina saxatilis (Olivi, 1792) [LITTORINIDAE] ROUGH PERIWINKLE This common north Atlantic snail was first collected in San Francisco Bay by J. Carlton in May of 1993 on the shore of the Emeryville Marina. This site is adjacent to a public boat ramp and dock, and L. saxatilis was likely introduced in the seaweed used to pack live marine baitworms shipped from Maine and discarded by anglers. We have repeatedly found live L. saxatilis in the seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum and occasionally other fucoid seaweeds) packing baitworms shipped to Newport Bay and San Francisco

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Bay (Carlton, 1979a; Lau, 1995; ANC, pers. obs.). As many as over a million Maine baitworms are shipped to the Bay Area each year (Lau, 1995) packed in seaweed containing many millions of living invertebrates from many phyla, so that this may be a transport vector of some significance (also see Miller, 1969). We have irregularly visited and collected a total of about 100 live Littorina saxatilis from the shore of the Emeryville Marina, where the snails were abundant intertidally in 1993 and 1994, and scarce in 1995, in the crevices of rocky debris along about 10 meters of shoreline. They have not been observed elsewhere in the Marina or the Bay. They produce "crawl away" larvae, and could spread as eggs or snails on rafting seaweed. Melanoides tuberculata (Mller, 1774) [THIARIDAE] RED-RIM MELANIA SYNONYMS: Thiara tuberculata Melanoides tuberculata is a freshwater snail native to the region from Africa to the East Indies. It was introduced to the United States through the aquarium trade and was first reported from California in 1972 from a drainage ditch in Riverside County (Taylor, 1981). The California Department of Water Resources has collected it from several sites in the Delta since December 1988, at densities of up to 754 snails/m2 (DWR, 1995). Urosalpinx cinerea (Say, 1822) [MURICIDAE] ATLANTIC OYSTER DRILL Urosalpinx cinerea is native to the northwestern Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Florida. It was introduced in shipments of Atlantic oysters to San Francisco Bay, where it was first collected from oyster beds at Belmont in 1890 (Stearns, 1894). It has been collected from many other bays in the northeastern Pacific, and is currently established in Boundary Bay, British Columbia (first record 1931), southern Puget Sound (1929), Willapa Bay (1948), Tomales Bay (1935) and Newport Bay (pre-1940s?) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 384). As Urosalpinx 's larvae are not pelagic, most of these sites represent either independent introductions from the Atlantic or intracoastal, humanaided transfers from other bays, including commercial shipments of oysters and other bivalves along the coast. Within San Francisco Bay, Hopkins (1986) reported Urosalpinx only from the South Bay. Urosalpinx eats barnacles, mussels and bryozoans as well as oysters. Although in some studies the drill has apparently preferred barnacles or mussels to oysters (Haydock, 1964; Carlton, 1979a), its impacts on oysters, especially on oyster spat, can be substantial (Haydock, 1964).

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Opisthobranchia Boonea bisuturalis (Say, 1821) [PYRAMIDELLIDA] TWO-GROOVE ODOSTOME SYNONYMS: Menestho bisuturalis Odostomia bisuturalis Odostomia fetella Boonea bisuturalis is native to the western Atlantic from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to Delaware, where it is an ectoparasite both of the Atlantic oyster Crassostrea virginica and of a number of bivalves and gastropods that were transported to San Francisco Bay with shipments of Atlantic oysters. It was reported in San Francisco Bay in 1977 associated with the Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta and the native hornsnail Cerithidea californica on the Fremont shore (Race, pers. comm.), and reported as common on a far South Bay mudflat (Nichols & Thompson, 1985b). Odostomia fetella reported from San Pablo Bay (Filice, 1959) and Suisun Bay (Markman, 1986) may also be this species. Carlton (1979a, p. 435) argues that Boonea bisuturalis was probably introduced with oyster shipments in the 19th or early 20th century, and remained unreported because of incomplete systematic work on the Odostomia complex in the northeastern Pacific. He predicts that early collections of Boonea bisuturalis and possibly other species of Atlantic odostomids will be found when unsorted, unidentified or misidentified material in museum collections is systematically worked up by specialists. Although, based on its associations, Boonea was probably an introduction with oyster shipments that remained unrecognized for many years, it might possibly have been a later introduction in ballast water. Catriona rickettsi Behrens, 1984 [TERGIPEDIDAE] SYNONYMS: Trinchesia sp. Behrens & Tuel, 1977 Catriona rickettsi was first collected in San Francisco Bay from Pete's Harbor, San Mateo County in 1974, where it is associated with and presumably feeds on the hydroid Tubularia crocea (Behrens & Tuel, 1977; Behrens, 1984), and was subsequently collected from La Jolla (Behrens, 1980). In 1995 it was collected on Tubularia marina on the ocean side of the Umpqua River jetty in Oregon (J. Goddard, pers. comm., 1995). The most likely means introduction is in ballast water or transported as eggs on ship fouling. Its origin is unknown. Cuthona perca (Marcus, 1958) [TERGIPEDIDAE] LAKE MERRITT CUTHONA In California, Cuthona perca is known only from Lake Merritt, where it feeds on the introduced Japanese anemone Haliplanella lineata (Carlton, 1979a, p. 431, as Trinchesia sp.) It is reported from Brazil, Jamaica, Miami, Barbados, New Zealand and Hawaii

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(Behrens, 1991). The most likely mechanisms of transport are either in ballast water or as eggs on ship fouling. Eubranchus misakiensis Baba, 1960 [EUBRANCHIDAE] MISAKI BALLOON AEOLIS Eubranchus misakensis was described from Japan in 1960 and collected at the San Francisco Municipal Marina in 1962 (Behrens, 1971; Gosliner, 1985). It occurs on boat floats and docks and silty-clay bottoms throughout the Bay, where it is found with and apparently feeds on the hydroid Obelia. (Carlton, 1979a, p. 433; Behrens, 1971, 1991). It may have been introduced in ballast water or as eggs on ship fouling, or possibly with shipments of Japanese oysters and overlooked for a few decades. Okenia plana Baba, 1960 [GONIODORIDIDAE] FLAT OKENIA Okenia was first reported from San Francisco Bay by Joan Steinberg in 1960 (the same year it was described from Japan), based on collections in the 1950s. It has also been reported from San Onofre, Orange County (Gosliner, 1995). It occurs on floats and pilings among fouling and with egg cases on a membraniporid bryozoan (tentatively identified as Conopeum tenuissimum), on rocks on mudflats, and subtidally in San Francisco Bay, where it has been reported from the South Bay (Palo Alto Yacht Harbor, Crown Beach in Alameda), Central Bay (Berkeley Pier and Yacht Harbor, San Francisco Yacht Harbor) and San Pablo Bay (Point Richmond and China Camp) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 425; ANC, pers. obs.). Carlton (1979a) suggests that it was probably introduced with shipping from Japan, either in ballast water or as eggs on fouling, perhaps related to increased trans-Pacific ship traffic during and after the Korean War. Alternatively it could have been introduced with shipments of Japanese oysters and overlooked for a couple of decades. Philine auriformis Suter, 1909 [PHILINIDAE] TORTELLINI SNAIL Philine auriformis is native to New Zealand and possibly southern Australia, and was first identified from San Francisco Bay in July, 1993. It had been collected from the South Bay for about a year prior to its recognition as an introduced species (i.e. since about the summer of 1992) in trawls by the Marine Science Institute of Redwood City, USGS and CDFG (K. Grimmer, J. Thompson and K. Hieb, pers. comm.). By 1994 it was regularly collected in otter trawls and benthic samples from the Central Bay (P. Donald, pers. comm.; ANC, pers. obs.), and snails and egg masses (which successfully hatched in the laboratory) were collected from intertidal mudflats in Bodega Harbor, 120 km north of the entrance to San Francisco Bay, in April, 1994. As it is not known from fouling, Philine was probably introduced to California via ballast water (Gosliner, 1995).

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All specimens were taken from fine, silty mud. Stomachs contained fragments of bivalve shells, Nutricula (=Transennella )tantilla and N. confusa in Bodega Harbor and possibly the introduced bivalve Gemma gemma in San Francisco Bay (Gosliner, 1995). Sakuraeolis enosimensis (Baba, 1930) [FACELINIDAE] WHITE-TENTACLED JAPANESE AEOLIS SYNONYMS: Coryphella sp. Behrens, 1980 Sakuraeolis enosimensis is native to Japan and was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1972. It is common and widespread in the southern portions of San Francisco Bay (Gosliner, 1995), where it feeds on the hydroid Tubularia crocea growing on boat docks (Behrens, 1991). It could have been introduced in ballast water or as eggs on fouling. Tenellia adspersa (Nordmann, 1845) [TERGIPEDIDAE] MINIATURE AEOLIS SYNONYMS: Tenellia pallida (Alder & Hancock, 1854) Embletonia sp. Alder & Hancock, 1851 Tenellia adspersa is widespread in European and Mediterranean waters and recently reported from Chesapeake Bay and Brazil, with a single 2 mm specimen reported from Japan (Carlton, 1979a). It was first collected from the Pacific Coast of North America at Point Richmond in San Francisco Bay in 1953, and later from the Richmond and Berkeley Yacht Harbors, Lake Merritt, San Leandro Bay, Sausalito and South Beach Harbor, San Francisco (Carlton, 1979a, p. 428; Jaeckle, 1983; ANC, pers. obs.). It is now known from Coos Bay to Long Beach (Gosliner, 1995). In Europe it is reported to range from waters of ocean salinity to "quite fresh water" and feeds voraciously on a variety of hydroids including the freshwater hydroid Cordylophora caspia (Roginskaya, 1970), which is introduced to and common in the Delta. In San Francisco Bay Tenellia adspersa apparently feeds on the introduced hydroids Tubularia crocea (Carlton, 1979a; Behrens, 1991) and Obelia dichotoma (Jaeckle, 1983). Carlton (1979b) suggested that it was probably introduced from Europe by shipping, either in ballast water or as eggs on fouling.

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Pulmonata Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) [MELAMPIDAE] SYNONYMS: Alexia setifer Cooper, 1872 Alexia setifer var. tenuis Cooper, 1872 Phytia myosotis Ovatella myosotis occurs on both coasts of the north Atlantic, but may have been introduced to the western Atlantic in the late 18th or early 19th century (Berman & Carlton, 1991). It was first collected from San Francisco Bay in 1871, probably introduced with Atlantic oysters, although possibly carried in wet ballast or wedged into holes or cracks in the wooden hulls of sailing vessels. Failure to find it earlier in San Francisco Bay despite intensive prior shell collecting in the area, plus the initiation of Atlantic oyster shipments with the completion of the transcontinental railway in 1869, suggests that O. myosotis was introduced not long before its discovery, probably in 1869-1871. O. myosotis was collected in Humboldt Bay in 1876, in San Pedro Harbor in southern California in 1915, and in Washington state in 1927. It has now been recorded from numerous Pacific coast bays and estuaries from Boundary Bay, British Columbia to Scammons Lagoon, Baja California (Carlton, 1979a, p. 414). Since O. myosotis lacks planktonic larvae, these additional sites resulted from transport either on coastal shipping or in replantings of oysters, or from separate introductions from the Atlantic. O. myosotis is absent from Pacific coast Pleistocene deposits, but there is one anomalous report by Gifford (1916) of this snail in an aboriginal shellmound on the shore of San Francisco Bay. Carlton (1979a) doubts this is Ovatella, and Gifford's material has been lost. O. myosotis is euryhaline and lives under boards and debris near the high-tide line of salt marshes and protected beaches in lagoons and bays. The snail has been studied in Europe but largely ignored in North America. On the Pacific coast it has been reported from the stomachs of willets (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus) (Stenzel et al., 1976). Carlton (1979a) noted that its co-occurrence in various Pacific coast sites with several species of native and introduced snails provided suitable systems for the study of competitive interactions between native and introduced species. Berman and Carlton (1991) found dietary overlap with the native snails Assiminea californica and Littorina subrotundata in Coos Bay, Oregon, but no evidence of competitive superiority by O. myosotis, and concluded that its establishment was not at the expense of the native snails.

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MOLLUSCA: BIVALVIA Arcuatula demissa (Dillwyn, 1817) [MYTILIDAE] RIBBED MUSSEL, RIBBED HORSE MUSSEL SYNONYMS: Ischadium demissum Modiolus demissus Geukensia demissa Volsella demissus Brachidontes demissus Modiolus plicatulus Lamarck, 1819 Arcuatula demissa (more commonly known as Ischadium demissum on the Pacific coast and as Geukensia demissa on the Atlantic coast) is native to the northwest Atlantic, commonly found in salt marshes from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to North Carolina. Southward it is replaced by a subspecies, Arcuatula demissa granossisimum. It was first collected in the Pacific from south San Francisco Bay in 1894 (Stearns, 1899), probably introduced with Atlantic oysters (small Arcuatula are commonly found on oysters in the Atlantic; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973). It has since been collected from three other sites: Newport Bay (first collected in 1940), Alamitos Bay (1957) and Anaheim Bay (1972) (Reish, 1968, 1972; Carlton, 1979a, p. 440). Questionable or probably adventitious specimens from other Pacific coast bays are discussed by Carlton (1979a). Arcuatula has become one of the most abundant bivalves in San Francisco Bay. De Groot (1927) reported that "countless millions of these small mussels cover the edges and sometimes the entire bottoms of the gutters and creeks of the west Bay marshes." Pestrong (1965) found in the Palo Alto area that they "effectively rip-rap channel banks when they form in large colonies, as is often the case." Carlton (1979a,b) found Arcuatula lining the base of concrete retaining walls at Lake Merritt, a brackish lagoon in Oakland. Arcuatula is common and often abundant in salt marshes from the South Bay to San Pablo Bay, where it frequently lies embedded with its posterior margin protruding above the mud. This "endobyssate" habit has resulted in a curious reported effect on the endangered California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris obsoletus). De Groot (1927) reported that the toes or probing beaks of rails are caught and clamped between the exposed, slightly gaping valves of the mussel. He reported that almost every rail examined over the preceding twenty years was missing one or more toes, presumably from this cause, that others had had their beaks clamped shut and died of starvation, and estimated that an average of one or two chicks per brood were caught by mussels and drowned by the incoming tide. More recent observers note that clapper rails in San Francisco Bay are frequently missing one or more toes (Moffitt, 1941; Josselyn, 1983; Takekawa, 1993), and Takekawa (1993) reported that a rail captured in the Palo Alto marshes with a mussel clamped onto its bill subsequently lost part of its bill. On the other hand, Moffitt (1941) found that Arcuatula formed 57 percent by volume of the total food in 18 clapper rail stomachs that he examined in 1939, and Recher (1966) and Anderson (1970) recorded Arcuatula from the stomachs of willet and dunlin in the South Bay.

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Corbicula fluminea (Mller, 1774) [CORBICULIDAE] ASIAN CLAM, ASIATIC CLAM SYNONYMS: Corbicula fluviatalis (Mller, 1774) Corbicula manilensis (Philippi, 1841), Corbicula leana (Prima, 1864) and Corbicula sinensis as reported in North America, and many other names in Asia; see Prashad (1929), Morton (1979), Britton & Morton (1979), and Woodruff et al. (1993) for extensive synonymies This freshwater clam is native to China, Korea and the Ussuri Basin in southeastern Siberia (Ingram, 1948), with closely related and possibly conspecific populations in Japan (Britton & Morton, 1979). The earliest North American record consists of three shells collected on the beach at Nanaimo, British Columbia in 1924, though no further specimens have been reported from Canada (Counts, 1981). Corbicula was next collected from the mouth of the Columbia River in 1938 (McMahon, 1982). It was reported from the Delta in 1945 (Hanna, 1966) and widespread there by 1948 (Ingram, 1948), and reached the Imperial Valley in southeastern California by 1952 (McMahon, 1982). From southern California Corbicula spread eastward to Arizona by 1954 (Ingram, 1959), and to near El Paso in west Texas by 1964 (McMahon, 1982). Meanwhile, Corbicula was collected from the Ohio River near Paducah, Kentucky in 1957, which McMahon (1982) suggests initiated a second zone of dispersal in North America. By the end of the 1960s Corbicula had spread through the lower Mississippi and Ohio river valleys, into southeast Texas and Oklahoma, and along the Gulf coast from Louisiana to southern Florida, and by the mid-1970s had spread up the Mississippi Valley to northern Iowa and along the Atlantic coast from Florida to New Jersey. By the early 1980s, Corbicula was found in 35 of the United States and in northern Mexico (McMahon, 1982). Corbicula was reported from South America, France and Portugal in 1981, and a specimen was collected from a stream in Oahu, Hawaii in 1992 (Araujo et al., 1993; Burch, 1994). Although for many years the Corbicula in North America were described as belonging to at least three different species, in 1979 Britton & Morton argued that only one species is involved, the highly variable Corbicula fluminea, a view that has generally been accepted since. Corbicula from California, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and South Carolina showed no genetic variation between populations at 18 loci, 14 of which were polymorphic in some Asian Corbicula (Smith et al., 1979). Since Corbicula are cultivated and sold as food in many Asian countries, many researchers have suggested that it was deliberately introduced to establish a food resource (e. g. Ingram, 1948; Hanna, 1966; Britton & Morton, 1979; McMahon, 1982), or possibly introduced through the aquarium trade (Ingram et al., 1964). Some researchers have suggested that it was introduced with Japanese oysters (Burch, 1944; Hill, 1951; Filice, 1959), but since Corbicula is mainly a freshwater organism, this seems unlikely. Corbicula's spectacular spread within and between watersheds in North America may have resulted from transport for use as bait, food or aquarium pets, or in river gravels dredged for use as aggregate (Ingram et al., 1964), although McMahon (1982) argues that natural means of dispersal were paramount, including passive downstream transport of juveniles in currents, upstream transport in fish stomachs, and upstream or between-watershed transport on birds. Corbicula are fairly hardy, tolerating several months without food (Hanna, 1966) and 7-27 days out of water (McMahon, 1979). One

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specimen was mailed, dry, in an envelope from Pennsylvania to Washington state for identification and mailed back without ill effect (McBane, pers. comm., 1995). The use of Corbicula in aquaculture or for wastewater clarification, in either commercial or experimental applications as on St. Croix, Virgin Islands (Haines, 1979), may serve to introduce the clam to new locations in the future. Corbicula is today the most widespread and abundant freshwater clam in California, found throughout lower elevation waters, the dominant mollusk and the third most abundant benthic organism in the Delta, and one of the most commonly identified benthic organisms in fish stomachs (Gleason, 1984; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Densities of 2,000 young clams/m2 are common, and range up to 20,000/m2. Spring flows carry young Corbicula down to Suisun Bay where they are sometimes collected as far west as Martinez, but high fall salinities appear to prevent the establishment of large adult populations even in the western Delta (Hazel & Kelley, 1966; Evans et al., 1979; Markmann, 1986). Populations of Corbicula with typical densities of 10,000 to 20,000 clams/m2 (with a maximum of 131,200/m2) trapped sediment and formed extensive bars in the Central Valley Project's Delta-Mendota Canal, reducing delivery capacity and requiring expensive dewatering and the dredging of over 50,000 cubic yards of clam-bearing material. One bar was described as filling the bottom of the canal from 0.3-1.0 meter deep for 3 kilometers (Hanna, 1966; Eng, 1979). Ingram (1959) reported the clam as an economic pest of water delivery systems in California, infesting and impairing operation of underground pipes, turnout valves, laterals and agricultural sprinkler systems in the Coachella and Imperial valleys, and plugging the tubes of condensercooler units at the federal government's Tracy Pumping Plant in the Delta. Corbicula is frequently cited as a significant problem in fouling irrigation systems, municipal water systems, power plant steam condensers, emergency reactor cooling systems and service water systems elsewhere in the country (e. g. Ingram et al., 1964; Sinclair, 1964; Hanna, 1966; Goss & Cain, 1977; McMahon, 1977, 1982; Mattice, 1979; Goss et al., 1979; Parsons, 1980). Corbicula is also reported to render river sand and gravel unfit for use as aggregate, and to outcompete native unionid and sphaeriid clams (McMahon, 1982). Blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, were introduced to some California waters in part to control Corbicula, but without success (Gleason, 1984). Upper salinity tolerances for Corbicula fluminea have been reported at 14 ppt (Gainey, 1978), 13-17 ppt (Morton & Tong, 1985), and about 10 ppt without acclimation and 22-24 ppt with acclimation (Evans et al., 1979). Sparse populations of Corbicula have been observed in the San Francisco Estuary near Martinez at 17 ppt, and abundant populations in areas subjected to daily salinities of 10 to 12 ppt (Evans et al., 1979). Corbicula fluminea are viviparous, releasing benthic pediveliger larvae or planktonic veligers that become benthic within 48 hours (Eng, 1979). There are typically two spawning periods per year, with one study reporting peak production of over 800 larvae/clam/day and an average of 1,140,820 larvae/m2/year. Biomass productivity rates were the highest ever recorded for a freshwater bivalve, and higher than most marine bivalves (Aldridge & McMahon, 1978). In California there are modest market sales of Corbicula both for bait and for food (Gleason, 1984; commercial harvesting for food is allowed only in Lake Isabella in Kern County). It was noncommercially harvested from the Delta for food at least as early as 1946 (Hanna, 1966).

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Gemma gemma (Totten, 1834) [VENERIDAE] AMETHYST GEM CLAM SYNONYMS: Gemma purpurea (Lea, 1842) This small, viviparous clam, native to the northwestern Atlantic from Nova Scotia to Florida and Texas, was first reported from the Pacific coast as 42 specimens recovered from the crop of a duck bought in a San Francisco market in 1893. It was collected directly from the Bay in the late 1890s, from Bolinas Lagoon in 1918 and from three other nearby embaymentsBodega Harbor, Tomales Bay and Elkhorn Sloughin the 1960s and 1970s (Carlton, 1979a, p. 490). Earlier observations of Gemma gemma in these embayments could have gone unremarked because of confusion with the small native venerid Transennella tantilla. The early records from San Francisco Bay noted above were originally identified as Transennella, and many later reports of Gemma gemma from various Pacific coast embayments and offshore sites were based on material that on re-examination turn out to be Transennella or one of two other native clams (Carlton, 1979a). Gemma gemma was probably introduced with Atlantic oysters, which it commonly occurs on the Atlantic coast (Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973). It is abundant on the intertidal mudflats from the far South Bay through San Pablo Bay where it is one of the most common benthic species, in places reaching midsummer densities of over 400,000 individuals/m2 (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a, 1985b) and is occasionally found up through Suisun Bay (Hopkins, 1986). It has been found in the stomachs of ten species of shorebird in San Francisco Bay (Recher, 1966), of white sturgeon (McKechnie & Fenner, 1971), and possibly of the introduced nudibranch Philine auriformis (Gosliner, 1995), is reported as an important food of diving ducks (Painter, 1966), and is undoubtedly eaten by many other organisms. Oglesby (1965) suggested that Gemma gemma may be the first intermediate host of the trematode Parvatrema borealis. The trematode makes characteristic pits in the shell of Gemma gemma, and such pits have been found in shells from San Francisco Bay, Bolinas Lagoon and Tomales Bay (Carlton, 1979a).

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Lyrodus pedicellatus (Quatrefages, 1849) [TEREDINIDAE] BLACKTIP SHIPWORM SYNONYMS: Teredo diegensis Bartsch, 1916 from San Diego Teredo townsendi Bartsch, 1922 from San Francisco Bay many other synonyms from other parts of the world (Turner, 1966) Lyrodus pedicellatus is a warm-temperate and subtropical wood-boring shipworm that requires temperatures of 14 to 24C and salinities of at least 29 ppt to breed (Eckelbarger & Reish, 1972). It has been reported from many parts of the worldthe eastern and western Atlantic, the Indo-Pacific region, Australasia, South Africa, Japan and Hawaiiand its origin is unknown, having been early and widely distributed either by drifting wood or in the hulls of ships. It has repeatedly been "discovered" and described as a new species: 12 times in the Atlantic, and 21 times in the Pacific (Turner, 1966; Carlton, 1979a, p. 551). A shipworm, apparently Lyrodus, was reported from Wilmington Harbor (now part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor system) in 1871 and following years, and Lyrodus was collected from San Diego Harbor by 1876. It was subsequently very abundant in these harbors (Miller, 1926). It was collected from San Bruno Slough in south San Francisco Bay in 1920, from Elkhorn Slough in 1935, and from several southern California bays and ports beginning in the 1940s (Carlton, 1979a). Macoma petalum (Valenciennes, in Humbold & Bonpland, 1821) [TELLINIDAE] BALTIC CLAM SYNONYMS: Macoma balthica of San Francisco Bay authors Macoma inconspicua of San Francisco Bay authors This Macoma species in San Francisco Bay has heretofore been known as Macoma balthica. In recent decades, M. balthica has generally been regarded as a single species with a circumboreal/arctic distribution, with records from central California north to Alaska and the Bering Sea, the Okhotsk and Japan seas, the Beaufort and Siberian seas, the Barents and White seas, northern Europe, the mid-Atlantic states north to western Greenland, Hudson Strait, Hudson Bay, and Bathurst Inlet in the Canadian Archipelago. However, the analysis of shell characteristics and growth rates (Beukema & Meehan, 1985) and allozymes (Meehan, 1985; Meehan et al., 1989) clearly indicates the existence of two species, one native to the northwestern Atlantic (here called Macoma petalum), the other native to the northeastern Atlantic and northern Pacific (Macoma balthica). Based on recent studies, the small pink Macoma of San Francisco Bay, long thought to be native Macoma balthica, appears rather to be M. petalum introduced from the northwestern Atlantic. Tested at eleven loci, the allele frequencies of San Francisco Bay specimens closely resembled those of northwestern Atlantic M. petalum (Nei's (1978) unbiased genetic identity of 0.943), and differed sharply from those of M. balthica from Alsea Bay and Coos Bay, Oregon (genetic identity of 0.394-0.461) (Meehan et al., 1989). Genetic identities >0.9 are generally thought to occur among conspecific

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populations, of 0.5-0.8 among sibling species, and of <0.5 among non-sibling species (Meehan et al., 1989). The early history of Macoma balthica and petalum in San Francisco Bay remains to be worked out. Shells identified as M. balthica have been recovered from 2,000-6,000 year old sediments under San Francisco Bay. It may be that Macoma balthica then died out in the Bay, as Meehan et al. (1989) argued based on the lack of records from later sediments and aboriginal shell middens in the region. Clams, apparently referable to M. balthica or petalum, were collected in the Bay by the United States Exploring Expedition in 1841 and by various parties in the 1860s (Carpenter, 1857, 1864; E. Coan, pers. comm., 1995). They were found to be common in all parts of the Bay in the Albatross survey of 1912-13 (Packard, 1918). Clams collected prior to 1850 could represent Macoma balthica native to the Bay, if an aboriginal population persisted despite Meehan et al.'s arguments; or could represent M. balthica from further north on the Pacific coast or M. petalum from the northwestern Atlantic introduced in solid ballast. Clams collected after 1850 could in addition represent M. balthica from northern bays introduced with transplants of the native oyster Ostrea conchaphila (=lurida). Clams collected after 1869 could in addition represent M. petalum introduced with shipments of the Atlantic oyster Crassostrea virginica. Morphologic (Beukma & Meehan, 1985) or genetic analysis of museum specimens might sort some of these possibilities out. The current distributional pattern of Macoma balthica and Macoma petalum in the northwestern Pacific, particularly between San Francisco Bay and Coos Bay, also remains to be determined. South of San Francisco Bay, there are records of shells and possibly live specimens of "Macoma balthica" as far south as San Diego, but these appear to be sporadic occurrences, probably related to anthropogenic transport, rather than established populations. Macoma petalum or balthica has been collected throughout San Francisco Bay upstream to Collinsville, especially in the shallows where densities have reached over 1,000 individuals/m2 (Siegfried et al., 1980; Hopkins, 1986; Markmann, 1986), and has been a dominant benthic organism in South Bay and Suisun Bay shallows (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a). It can be an important food of fish, diving ducks and clapper rail (Williams, 1929; Painter, 1966), and formed 8 percent of the volume of food in 18 clapper rail stomachs (Moffitt, 1941). In San Francisco Bay Macoma feeds on both planktonic and benthic microalgae, and Thompson & Nichols (1988) found that the timing and rate of growth of intertidal populations was controlled by food supply and high mud-flat (air) temperatures, and independent of salinity over a 0-31 ppt range. It was recently determined that Macoma balthica from both Vancouver Island and the Baltic Sea host the same three species of digenean flatworms (Pekkarinen & Ching, 1994). It would be of interest to determine whether Macoma petalum from San Francisco Bay and the northwestern Atlantic host the same or different parasites.

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Musculista senhousia (Benson, 1842) [MYTILIDAE] SYNONYMS: Musculus senhousia Modiolus demissus of Filice (1959) Native to Japan and China, this small mussel was introduced to Washington and central California with Japanese oysters (Crassostrea gigas), with which it has been found in incoming seed (Kincaid, 1949). It was collected in Samish Bay, Washington, on beds of Japanese oysters in 1924, and at Olympia in 1959. In central California it was collected from Tomales Bay in 1941, Bolinas Lagoon in 1944, San Francisco Bay in 1946, Elkhorn Slough in 1965 and Bodega Harbor in 1971. It was collected from Mission, San Diego and Newport bays in southern California, and Papilote Bay (near Ensenada) in Baja California in the 1960s and 1970s (Carlton, 1979a, p. 449), probably transported in ballast water or on ship or boat fouling. In the 1970s it appeared in New Zealand and Australia and in the 1980s in the Mediterranean. In the western Pacific Musculista has been reported at densities of up to 28,650 juveniles/m2 settled on eelgrass or 2,500-2,800 adults/m2 just buried in the mud of the tidal flats, where the clams build nests about them of byssal thread, mucus and sediment. Musculista is used as food in China and as fish bait and as feed for cultivating shrimp and crab in Japan (Morton, 1974; Carlton, 1979a). On the bottom of Lake Merritt, a shallow, brackish Lagoon on San Francisco Bay, Musculista occurs in dense byssal mats that can be pulled from the bottom in sheets, and as individuals among the fouling on pilings and floats. At Alameda individuals are found nesting in the sediment or attached to the base of eelgrass plants. Musculista has been collected at densities of up to 1,000-2,000 clams/m2 from the South Bay to San Pablo Bay, where it has frequently been one of the most common benthic organisms, and occasionally collected upstream to Honker Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a; Hopkins, 1986; Markmann, 1986). Crooks (1996) has investigated its ecology and biology in Mission Bay in southern California. Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758 [MYIDAE] SOFT-SHELL CLAM SYNONYMS: Mya hemphillii Newcomb, 1874 Mya arenaria is native to the American Atlantic coast and from Alaska north of the Aleutian Peninsula, although its distribution north of British Columbia is not well known. It has been introduced into western and northern Europe. Although recorded from Miocene and Pliocene deposits on the Pacific coast, it has not been found in Pleistocene deposits or in aboriginal shell middens south of the Bering Sea, and had not been encountered by numerous collectors on the Pacific coast prior to 1874 (Stearns, 1881). In that year it was collected in San Francisco Bay (Newcomb, 1874), almost certainly transported there in the transcontinental shipments of Atlantic oysters that began in 1869. This large, edible clam was soon transplanted to other Pacific Coast sites (e. g. Coos Bay, Oregon by 1880, Santa Cruz, California by 1881, Willapa Bay and Puget Sound in Washington by 1884 and 1888-89; also note Stearns' (1881) exhortation that "it

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would be a wise, public spirited act if the captains of our coasting vessels would take the trouble and incur the slight expense attending the planting of this clam at such points as their vessels touch at in the ordinary course of business"), and may have been distributed to others with transplantings of oysters from these sites or with fresh introductions of oysters from the Atlantic. It is less likely, though possible, that Mya arenaria's appearance in some locations resulted from deliberate introductions from the Atlantic (which Rathbun (1892), Heath (1916) and Coe (1956) claim was attempted or occurred), or from the transport of small clams in ship fouling. Although some workers have suggested that some or all of Mya arenaria's northward movement was due to natural dispersal (e. g. Quayle, 1960), Carlton (1979a) concludes that "there is little hard data that Mya has ever spread naturally anywhere along the Pacific coast." Mya arenaria does not appear to have become established south of Monterey, despite a planting of about 2,000 clams in Morro Bay in 1915 and occasional, probably erroneous reports of Mya arenaria from southern California (reviewed in Carlton, 1979a). By the 1880s Mya arenaria was reported as the most common clam sold in San Francisco Bay area markets (Stearns, 1881). But the commercial harvest declined from 500-900 tons per year in 1889-1899, to generally above 100 tons per year in 1916-1926, to nothing after 1948, possibly due to overharvesting, habitat loss, pollution or a decline in the market due to an increasing harvest of Venerupis phillipinarum (Skinner, 1962; Herbold et al., 1992). Today, noncommercial harvest of Mya continues for food and bait (Sutton, 1981; Herbold et al., 1992). It has been collected throughout the Bay as far upstream as Collinsville and Sherman Lake, frequently at densities over 100 and sometimes over 1,000 clams/m2, and has been one of the dominant benthic organisms in the shallows of the South Bay and Suisun Bay (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a; Hopkins, 1986; Markmann, 1986). Several workers reported that Mya arenaria replaced populations of the native clam Macoma nasuta in San Francisco Bay, at least in regularly harvested clam beds (e. g. Fisher, 1916). Clam beds encompassing from a few to hundreds of acres were established from the South Bay to the Napa River and Martinez, some of them public and some privately owned, with some fenced to keep out bat rays and flounder (Bonnot, 1932). Predators of Mya arenaria on the Pacific coast include rays, sharks, flounder, ducks and shorebirds. Five species of native pinnotherid crabs are recorded as living in Mya arenaria's mantle cavity (references in Carlton, 1979a).

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Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamarck 1819 [MYTILIDAE] MEDITERRANEAN MUSSEL SYNONYMS: the taxonomy of the Mytilus "edulis" complex is reviewed by Koehn (1991) and Seed (1992) The cosmopolitan Mytilus "edulis" species complex was variously grouped into one or several species by different authors until electrophoretic evidence published in the late 1980s and 1990s led to the general recognition of three species: M. edulis from northern Europe and eastern North America; M. galloprovincialis from the Mediterranean Sea, various sites on the Atlantic coast of Europe, South Africa, California, Japan, Hong Kong and eastern China, Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand; and M. trossulus from the northwestern Pacific, Siberia, eastern Canada and the Baltic Sea (McDonald et al., 1991; Koehn, 1991; Seed, 1992), although frequent hybridization between these forms may raise doubts about their specific status (Seed, 1992). Mussels from Chile, Argentina, and the Falkland and Kerguelen islands contain alleles characteristic of all three genotypes but have been tentatively assigned to M. edulis (McDonald et al., 1991). The two species present in the northwest Pacific have been differentiated on the basis of morphometric analysis (Sarver & Foltz, 1993; mussels from San Francisco Bay collected in 1990), starched gel electrophoresis at 8-15 allozyme loci (McDonald & Koehn, 1988, using mussels collected in 1985-87; Sarver & Foltz, 1993), and the sequencing of mitochondrial 16S ribosomal DNA (Geller et al., 1993, 1994). All methods agree in finding predominantly or purely M. trossulus type from Eureka, California north to Alaska; a hybridization zone including Westport, Tomales Bay, San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay where sites contained various mixtures of M. trossulus, M. galloprovincialis and their hybrids; and high proportions of M. galloprovincialis at sites south of Monterey to San Diego. However, these methods differed in their conclusions about how dominant M. galloprovincialis is south of Monterey, with allozyme analyses showing almost pure M. galloprovincialis genotype and DNA analysis showing a roughly equal mix of M. galloprovincialis-M. trossulus genotypes. Geller et al. (1994) suggest that this could result from the introgression of the M. trossulus mitochondrial genome into individuals with M. galloprovincialis nucleic genome. Since mitochondrial DNA is mainly transmitted maternally in Mytilus species, such introgression could be produced by repeated crossings with M. galloprovincilis males with a female M. trossulus and her female descendants. The pattern of occurrence of these species suggests that M. trossulus is a coldtemperate species native to the northern Pacific, and that M. galloprovincialis is a warmtemperate species native to the Mediterranean and introduced to California, Japan, China and South Africa (Koehn, 1991; Seed, 1992), as well as Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. DNA analysis of museum specimens indicates that M. galloprovincialis arrived in southern California between 1900 and 1947, probably as ship fouling or as larvae in ballast water, displacing M. trossulus (J. Geller in Culotta, 1995). DNA analysis also shows that viable M. galloprovincialis larvae are continually discharged in large numbers into Coos Bay, Oregon in the ballast water from Japanese ships, though no adult M. galloprovincialis or hybrids were found in the bay (Geller et al., 1994).

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In San Francisco Bay, bay mussels are found mainly from the northern South Bay to southern San Pablo Bay, and occasionally as far upstream as Martinez (Hopkins, 1986). Distribution of M. trossulus and galloprovincialis at four sites as indicated by allozyme frequencies show a heterogeneous mix of species and hybrids that follows no obvious environmental cline, with M. trossulus strongly dominating at both the most upstream and most seaward site, and M. galloprovincialis less strongly dominating at sites between (Sarver & Foltz, 1993). On the Pacific coast these two difficult-to-distinguish species have long been considered one species and have been frequently used for the biomonitoring of pollutants in the California Mussel Watch program and other studies. Recent indications that separate species in the Mytilus "edulis" complex exhibit different growth rates and different concentrations of various elements when grown in the same habitat (Lobel et al., 1990) suggest that conclusions about the relative contamination of various sites based on comparative bioassays of bay mussel specimens incorrectly assumed to belong to a single species may be invalid. Other studies have found different species within the complex to have different levels of infection by parasites, spawning periods, fecundity and strength of byssal attachment (Seed, 1992). Petricolaria pholadiformis (Lamarck, 1818) [PETRICOLIDAE] FALSE ANGELWING SYNONYMS: Petricola pholadiformis The false angelwing is native to the northwestern Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Gulf of Mexico and possibly to Uruguay, and has been introduced to Europe (Carlton, 1979a, p. 515). It was collected in south San Francisco Bay in or before 1927 (Grant & Gale, 1931), from Willapa Bay in 1943 (Kincaid, 1947) and from Newport Bay in 1972. Reports of P. pholadiformis from "near Monterey" and from Scammons Lagoon, Baja California are probably erroneous (Carlton, 1979a). It is a borer into clay, peat, mud, sand and other soft sediments, and has been recorded from oyster beds on the Atlantic coast (Wells, 1961). Though it was most likely introduced to the Pacific in shipments of Atlantic oysters, it is puzzling that it was reported from the Pacific relatively late. It is a striking shell that would not likely have been overlooked by collectors. It is possibly an early ballast water introduction. In Willapa Bay a spionid polychaete, a Corophium amphipod and a nereid polychaete are often associated with P. pholadiformis. In San Francisco Bay, Bush (1937) reported that about 90 percent of these clams collected from sandy beaches near the Oakland Airport host the ciliate Ancistrumina kofoidi. This protozoan is known only from P. pholadiformis from San Francisco Bay, and is presumed to be native to the Atlantic and introduced along with the clam.

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Potamocorbula amurensis (Schrenck, 1867) [CORBULIDAE] AMUR RIVER CORBULA, ASIAN CLAM In October 1986, a college biology class dredged three small and unfamiliar clams from the bottom of Suisun Bay. These were subsequently identified as Potamocorbula amurensis, a native of estuaries from southern China (22 N latitude) to southern Siberia (53 N) and Japan, which was likely transported to California as larvae in ballast water. By the summer of 1987 Potamocorbula had become the most abundant benthic organism in the northern part of the Bay, carpeting the bottom at densities of over 16,000 juvenile clams (mean shell length of 1.7 mm) per square meter (Carlton et al., 1990; Nichols et al., 1990). It seems likely that Potamocorbula arrived in the Bay very shortly before its discovery, because it was not collected earlier despite regular benthic sampling, and because all specimens collected through March 1987 were less than 11 mm long, and therefore probably less than a year old (Carlton et al., 1990). An intensive benthic survey of the northern Bay in 1990 found Potamocorbula very common from San Pablo Bay through Suisun Bay, and most abundant in the Suisun Marsh region with mean concentrations of up to 19,200 clams/m2 and a median size of 2-3 mm. Median size was 10-11 mm in San Pablo Bay, and 5-6 mm and 8-9 mm in the shoals and channel of Suisun Bay (Hymanson, 1991). Potamocorbula is now abundant in parts of the South and Central Bay, and has occasionally been collected in the western Delta as far upstream as Rio Vista, over a range of salinities from 33 ppt to less than 1 ppt. At these sites it would be exposed to temperatures ranging from 8 C on subtidal bottoms in the winter to 23 C on intertidal flats in the summer, within the temperature range of 0-28 C suggested by its latitudinal range in Asia. It lives both subtidally and intertidally on all soft-bottom substrates, where it typically sits with one-third to onehalf of its length exposed above the sediment surface (Carlton et al., 1990). Prior to 1986, the benthic species composition and abundance in the northern Bay changed markedly from year to year, with freshwater species declining during dry periods and more numerous, higher-salinity speciesdominated by the clam Mya arenaria, the amphipods Corophium acherusicum and Ampelisca abdita, and the polychaete Streblospio benedicti, all introduced organismsinvading the area (Nichols, 1985). Potamocorbula's arrival in the Bay followed a major flood in the spring of 1986, and its increase and spread coincided with a multi-year dry period that began in mid-1986. The 1986 flood left the benthic community nearly depauperate in the Suisun Bay area, probably facilitating Potamocorbula's establishment. This community failed to return during the subsequent dry period, presumably due to Potamocorbula's presence. The mechanisms by which Potamocorbula excluded these organisms are not known, but could include the depletion of food resources (see below) or feeding by Potamocorbula on the larvae of these organisms (Nichols et al., 1990). Potamocorbula has maintained substantial populations in the northern Bay even after the end of the drought and the return of normal flows (J. Thompson, pers. comm., 1994), and thus appears to have permanently changed benthic community dynamics in this part of the Bay (Nichols et al., 1990). Examination of feces from specimens collected in the Bay show Potamocorbula ingesting both planktonic (Coscinodiscus spp. and Skeletonema costatum) and benthic (Navicula spp.) diatoms (Carlton et al., 1990). Werner & Hollibaugh (1993) found that Potamocorbula filters bacterioplankton as well as phytoplankton, though at lower efficiency, and assimilates both with high efficiency. They calculate that at present

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densities in the northern Bay (>2,000 clams/m2) Potamocorbula could filter the entire water column over the channels more than once per day and over the shallows almost 13 times per day, a rate of filtration which exceeds the phytoplankton's specific growth rate and approaches or exceeds the bacterioplankton's specific growth rate. Thus Potamocorbula may permanently reduce the phytoplankton standing stock in the northern reach of the Bay. Alpine & Cloern (1992) described the pre-Potamocorbula regime as one in which phytoplankton biomass and production were regulated by river-driven transport when benthic grazers were few, but limited by grazing pressure when grazers were abundant. With Potamocorbula in the Bay, grazing pressure may be permanently high, and phytoplankton biomass and productivity permanently low. In laboratory experiments Kimmerer (1991) found that Potamocorbula readily consumed nauplii of the copepod Eurytemora affinis, but not the introduced copepod Pseudodiaptomus sp. Kimmerer et al. (1994) argued that an observed decline in the abundance of three dominant copepod taxaE. affinis, Sinocalanus doerrii, and Acartia spp.that coincided with the spread of Potamocorbula in the northern reach of the Bay resulted from direct predation on copepods by Potamocorbula rather than from food limitation due to the decline in phytoplankton. Further trophic changes may be expected to result from the reduction in zooplankton and the build-up of Potamocorbula, including declines in the organisms that feed on zooplankton, and increases in organisms capable of feeding on Potamocorbula (Carlton et al., 1990). Potamocorbula has been found in the stomachs of diving ducks and sturgeon in the Bay (Nichols et al., 1990), and in aquaria is readily consumed by the introduced green crab Carcinus maenas (Cohen et al., 1995). Investigating allele frequencies at eight loci, Duda (1994) found high genetic diversity in the San Francisco Bay population (polymorphic at 75 percent of sites with a mean direct-count heterozygosity of 0.295), with little genetic differentiation between sites within the Bay. Teredo navalis Linnaeus, 1758 [TEREDINIDAE] NAVAL SHIPWORM SYNONYMS: Teredo beachi Bartsch, 1921 Teredo diegensis (in part) Teredo japonica Clessin, 1893 other synonyms are reviewed by Turner (1966), and the history of taxonomic debate regarding San Francisco Bay shipworms is reviewed by Carlton (1979a, pp. 558-560) The earliest northwest Pacific record of this globally-distributed, temperatewater shipworm is from San Francisco Bay in 1913, and it has also established populations in Willapa Bay, Washington (first reported in 1957), in Pendrell Sound, British Columbia (1963), and possibly in Los Angeles Harbor (1927) and other southern California bays (Barrows, 1917; Kofoid & Miller, 1927; Reish, 1972; Carlton, 1979a, p. 556). It undoubtedly arrived in the hulls of ships. When Commodore John Sloat arrived on the Pacific coast in 1852 in search of a suitable location for the Navy Department's western shipyard, his orders directed him to pick a site that was "safe from attack by wind, wave, enemies, and marine worms"

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(Lott, 1954). He chose the eastern shore of Mare Island in the northern, upstream reach of San Francisco Bay, where low salinities kept the region free of marine wood-boring organisms and where marine facilities such as wharves and ferry slips could consequently be built on untreated wooden pilings. It was in such wooden structures at Mare Island that Teredo navalis, which readily tolerated much fresher water than did the existing marine borers in the Bay (thriving down to 9 ppt and surviving indefinitely down to 5 ppt; Miller, 1926), was first noticed in 1913. By 1919-1920, possibly aided by a dry spell that brought higher than average salinities, Teredo navalis was found from the South Bay to Suisun Bay and had grown so abundant as to destroy virtually all the wooden structures in the northern part of the Bay, with damage estimated at over half a billion dollars in current dollars (McNeily, 1927; this paper, Chapter 6). This destruction led to the formation of the San Francisco Bay Marine Piling Committee which produced a series of reports (annual reports in 1921, 1922 and 1923, and the Final Report in 1927) covering the activities and management of a variety of marine wood-borers in San Francisco Bay and elsewhere in the Pacific. The participants in the Committee's investigations later published several additional papers on the biology and morphology of Teredo navalis (references in Carlton, 1979a). The evidence that Teredo navalis is not native to San Francisco Bay is reviewed by Barrows (1917, p. 29), Kofoid (1921, pp. 43-44), Kofoid & Miller (1922, pp. 81-82; 1927, pp. 206-207, 246-247) and Carlton (1979a, pp. 560-563). This evidence includes the absence of any known damage from marine borers in the northern part of the Bay prior to 1913, the lack of any prior record of Teredo navalis on the Pacific coast despite extensive collecting by nineteenth century conchologists, and the failure to find Teredo navalis in an investigation of shipworms conducted for the United States Forest Service in 1910-1911. Although the specific source of the shipworms introduced to San Francisco Bay is unknown, Carlton (1979a) suggests that Teredo navalis is native to the Atlantic. A shipworm, probably Teredo navalis but possibly Nototeredo norvegica (Turner, 1966), was known from Europe since at least the start of the 17th century and was apparently mentioned by Pliny, Cicero, Theophrastus and others in ancient times (Moll, 1914). Teredo navalis was reported from Europe in 1731 by a Dutch commission describing a "horrible plague" of shipworms threatening to destroy the dikes that protected the lowlands of Holland, and by Sellius in 1733. Teredo navalis was also present in Japan at least since the 1890s, though it appears to have been absent from Australia at that time (Carlton, 1979a). Although there has been little notice taken of shipworms in San Francisco Bay in recent years, New York City has apparently experience a resurgence of shipworm activity reportedly resulting from a cleaner harbor (or, less likely, from shipworms developing a tolerance to creosote). When city officials visited the Brooklyn Army Terminal in the spring of 1993 to inspect shipworm damage they found that one of the piers had collapsed the previous night. The city spent $100 million to protect its piers against woodborer damage (Gruson, 1993).

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Theora fragilis A. Adams, 1855 [SEMELIDAE] ASIAN SEMELE SYNONYMS: Theora lubrica Gould, 1861 Theora fragilis is a small, mud-dwelling clam native to Japan, China, the Indo-West Pacific and New Zealand. It first appeared in the northeastern Pacific in southern California, where it was collected from Anaheim Bay in 1968-69, from Newport Bay in 1971-73, and in large numbers from Los Angeles Harbor in 1973 (Seapy, 1974, Carlton, 1979a, p. 517). It was probably introduced in ballast water, possibly from ships returning from Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Theora fragilis larvae have been collected from the ballast water of Japanese cargo ships arriving at Coos Bay, Oregon and reared to juvenile stages (Carlton et al., 1990, p. 85). Theora was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1982 at Islais Creek, San Francisco (Carlton et al., 1990). It occurs in small numbers through much of the Bay, the California Department of Water Resources has collected it at Point Pinole at densities of up to 127/m2 since sampling began in 1991 (DWR, 1995), and it was one of the most common benthic organisms collected at the Alameda Naval Air Station in 1993 (G. Gillingham, pers, comm.). It is absent from Suisun Bay according to U. S. Geological Survey sampling records (Carlton et al., 1990). Venerupis philippinarum (Adams & Reeve, 1850) [VENERIDAE] JAPANESE LITTLENECK CLAM, MANILA CLAM SYNONYMS: Tapes japonica (Deshayes, 1853) Tapes semidecussata Reeve, 1864 Tapes philippinarum Ruditapes philippinarum Paphia bifurcata Quayle, 1938 Venerupis philippinarum, known until recently as Tapes japonica, is an Asian clam that was introduced with shipments of Japanese oysters to the northeastern Pacific, where it has become established in numerous bays from British Columbia to central California and is the numerically dominant clam in many of them. It was first noticed in planted oyster beds in Samish Bay, Washington in 1924 (Kincaid, 1947), and in a shipment of Japanese oysters arriving at Elkhorn Slough in 1930 (Bonnot, 1935b). However, the first record of an established population on the North American coast is from Ladysmith Harbor on the eastern shore of Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1936 (Quayle, 1938). Northward spread from that site, and later northward spread from Barkley Sound on the west side of Vancouver Island to Venerupis' northernmost record in Hecate Strait, appear to have been due to the transport of larvae by currents, but the clam's spread southward to California is probably due in large part to new introductions in oyster shipments from Japan, to the transplanting of oysters along the coast, and to intentional transplants (some probably not recorded) of Venerupis. Venerupis was found in Puget Sound in 1943, in Willapa Bay and San Francisco Bay in 1946, in Bodega Harbor and Elkhorn Slough in 1949, in Tomales Bay in 1955, in

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Humboldt Bay and Grays Harbor in 1964, and in Bolinas Lagoon in 1966. It had entered the commercial market by 1941, which encouraged laboratory aquaculture efforts and reseeding and replanting programs in the Pacific northwest, some of which continue. Efforts were made to establish Venerupis in Morro Bay, Newport Harbor and the Salton Sea in 1953, in the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1962, and in Yaquina and Tillamook bays in 1965, all of which failed. However, it was successfully established in Netarts Bay, Oregon in the 1970s (Carlton, 1979a, p. 502). In San Francisco Bay, Venerupis is commonly found at concentrations up to 2,000 clams/m2 from the South Bay through San Pablo Bay, where it is one of the most common benthic organisms, and has on occasion been found as far upstream as Chipps Island (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a; Hopkins, 1986). In the Bay it is collected noncommercially both for food and bait (Sutton, 1981; ANC, pers. obs.). In San Francisco Bay and elsewhere, Venerupis co-occurs with various native clams, including the similar native littleneck clam Protothaca staminea. Although a few authors have stated that Venerupis displaces the native littleneck, others have seen little evidence of competition between them, with Venerupis living higher in the intertidal zone or closer to the surface than Protothaca (see Carlton, 1979a). However, the question has not been effectively studied. A variety of organisms feed on Venerupis on the Pacific coast, including the moonsnail Polinices lewisii, sturgeon, willet, gulls, ducks and raccoons (Glude, 1964; Painter, 1966; McKechnie & Fenner, 1971; Stenzel et al., 1976; Carlton, 1979a), and undoubtedly many others.

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ARTHROPODA: CRUSTACEA Ostracoda Eusarsiella zostericola (Cushman, 1906) SYNONYMS: Sarsiella zostericola Sarsiella tricostata Jones, 1958 This western Atlantic ostracod occurs from Maine to Florida and in the Gulf of Mexico. It is known on the Pacific coast only from San Francisco Bay, where it was first collected in 1953 at Point Richmond (Carlton, 1979a, p. 573). It is widely distributed in the Bay on soft substrates in shallow water. It has also been introduced to England, where it occurs only in regions where Atlantic oysters were planted. Though not recorded from San Francisco Bay until the 1950s, this minute, benthic crustacean could have been long present but gone unnoticed or unrecognized, and thus may have been introduced with Atlantic oyster shipments. Since ostracods (other than holoplanktonic ostracods) have rarely been collected from ballast water samples (e. g. Carlton & Geller, 1993), ballast water seems a less likely transport mechanism.

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Copepoda Acartiella sinensis This copepod, native to the subtropical to tropical waters of the China coast, was collected in Suisun Bay in 1993, 1994 and 1995. It is found in the vicinity of the entrapment zone and does not extend upstream as far as the eastern Delta (Orsi, 1994, 1995; J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). It was probably introduced in ballast water. Limnoithona sinensis (Burkhardt, 1912) SYNONYMS: Oithona sinensis This copepod has been collected from the brackish and fresh waters of the Yangtze River (Changjiang) inland to at least 300 km and from nearby lakes and canals in 1898, in 1906 and prior to 1962. It was collected from the San Francisco Estuary for first time in 1979, by CDFG from the San Joaquin River near Stockton (Ferrari & Orsi, 1984). Herbold & Moyle (1989) suggest that a decline in zooplankton abundance in the Delta prior to 1979 may have facilitated L. sinensis' establishment. It has been collected throughout the Delta (where it is more abundant in the San-Joaquin than in the Sacramento River) and downstream to Suisun Bay, though apparently restricted to waters of less than 1.2 ppt (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). It has been most abundant in Oct./Nov. and scarcest in Mar./Apr., with a maximum recorded abundance of 71,176 individuals/m2 in Aug., 1981 near Stockton (Ferrari & Orsi, 1984). In 1993-94 it was replaced over its entire range by Limnoithona tetraspina (J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). The lack of any record of this copepod in the eastern Pacific prior to 1979, and early records of it from the Yangtze River area, suggest that L. sinensis is a recent introduction to the San Francisco Estuary (Ferrari & Orsi, 1984). It was most likely transported across the Pacific in ballast water (oithonid copepods have been found to survive transport in ballast tanks; Carlton, 1985, p. 346). Limnoithona tetraspina This copepod, native to the Yangtze River, was first found in the Estuary in 1993 at Chipps Island in Suisun Bay and at Collinsville and Hood on the Sacramento River. By 1994 it had replaced Limnoithona sinensis and, reaching densities greater than 40,000/m3, had become the most abundant copepod ever seen in the Estuary (Orsi, 1995; J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). It was probably introduced in ballast water.

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Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 PARASITIC COPEPOD SYNONYMS: Mytilicola ostreae Wilson, 1938 This small red copepod lives in the intestine or rectum, or rarely in the digestive diverticulae, of oysters and other mollusks. It is native to the western Pacific and was introduced to the northeastern Pacific with shipments of the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas. It was first collected from Willapa Bay, Washington in 1938, and subsequently from many bays and estuaries from Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Morro Bay, California, including San Francisco Bay in 1974 (where it was discovered in three out of 30 native oysters Ostrea conchaphila from the Berkeley Marina; Bradley & Siebert, 1978; Carlton, 1979a, p. 577). These various sites could have received Mytilicola directly with shipments of oysters from Japan, with oysters transplanted from other eastern Pacific bays, or with mussels fouling coastal ships. On the Pacific coast Mytilicola has been found in (in addition to Japanese oysters) the introduced slipper shell Crepidula fornicata (one record from Puget Sound), and several native bivalves, including the oyster Ostrea conchaphila, the mussel Mytilus californianus, and the clams Protothaca staminea (one record from Puget Sound), Saxidomus giganteus and Clinocardium nuttallii (one record each from British Columbia). It has also been found in the native mussel Mytilus trossulus (northern records reported as M. edulis) and possibly the introduced mussel M. galloprovincialis or in hybrids (San Francisco Bay record reported as M. edulis; see Sarver & Folz, 1993) (Carlton, 1979a). Carlton (1979a) notes that the data for sites and for hosts may be selective as "all bays that have been searched, and most if not all mollusks that have been examined, have been found to have Mytilicola." He also notes that due to the copepod's endoparasitic habit and a lack of exploration and early collecting, Mytilicola could have been in these bays long before it was first observed. Katansky et al. (1967) and Bradley & Siebert (1978) summarize the biological research on Mytilicola in the eastern Pacific. Oithona davisae Ferrari & Orsi, 1984 This copepod was first collected in eastern Suisun Bay in 1979, and described by Ferrari & Orsi (1984). It has been collected from the South Bay to San Pablo Bay, and upstream to Chipps Island in waters of 12 ppt. Copepods that were collected from San Pablo Bay in the winter, spring and fall of 1963 and identified as Oithona sp. may also have been Oithona davisae (Ferrari & Orsi, 1984). Ambler et al. (1985) found Oithona davisae to be one of the most common copepods in the Bay in 1980. In June to December of that year, at sites from the South Bay to Carquinez Strait it was found in 25-48 percent of the samples collected, and reached peak abundances of 22,000-44,000 individuals/m2 in the South Bay in October and November. Ferrari & Orsi (1984) argued that the lack of any record of this copepod in the Bay prior to 1979, and the fact that some distinctive morphological characters are shared exclusively with Indo-West Pacific oithonid copepods, suggests that Oithona davisae was a recent introduction to the San Francisco Estuary from the western Pacific.

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It was subsequently found in Japanese waters, where it is frequently abundant in eutrophic embayments (Uye & Sano, 1995), and considered to be of Asian origin (Fleminger & Kramer, 1988). It has also been reported from southern Chile (Carlton, 1987). Oithona species have been found to survive transport in ballast tanks (Carlton, 1985, p. 346), and this one was most likely transported across the Pacific in ballast water. Pseudodiaptomus forbesi (Poppe & Richard, 1890) Pseudodiaptomus forbesi is native to the fresh and brackish waters of the Yangtze River (Changjiang), China, usually restricted to waters of less than 8 ppt. It was first collected outside of China in 1987 in fresh water in the eastern and southern Delta. By the following year it was found throughout the Delta and downstream into Suisun Bay up to a salinity of 16 ppt, in which areas it was the most abundant calanoid copepod in the fall of 1988 and in 1989. The maximum abundance recorded was 22,408 individuals/m2 in fresh water in the San Joaquin River near Stockton in early June, 1988 (Orsi, 1989; Orsi & Walter, 1991). Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain the recent dramatic shifts in the absolute and relative abundance of Pseudodiaptomus forbesi and other copepods in the northern reach of the Estuary, including competition between native and introduced copepods, differential predation by introduced fish and clams on different copepods, and predation by copepods on other copepods. Herbold et al. (1992), implying competition as the relevant mechanism, reported that the "invasions of the western Delta and Suisun Bay by Sinocalanus doerrii in 1978 and by Pseudodiaptomus forbesi in 1987 were followed by declines in abundance of Eurytemora affinis and the almost complete elimination of Diaptomus spp." On the other hand, Kimmerer (1991) reported that the cryptogenic copepod Eurytemora affinis was not food-limited in the Estuary so that competition with recently introduced copepods could not account for its decline. Orsi (1989) noted that striped bass appeared to be more effective predators on Eurytemora than on P. forbesi, and Meng & Orsi (1991) found that striped bass larvae in laboratory feeding experiments selected native copepods Cyclops sp. and cryptogenic Eurytemora (present in the Estuary since at least the 1912-13 Albatross survey; Esterly, 1924) over the recently introduced copepods P. forbesi and Sinocalanus doerri, and suggested that differences in copepod swimming and escape behaviors could account for the differential predation. Kimmerer (1991) reported that in laboratory experiments the introduced Asian clam Potamocorbula amurensis consumed Eurytemora but not Pseudodiaptomus species, and Kimmerer et al. (1994) argued that the decline in Eurytemora was caused by Potamocorbula preying on its nauplii. Orsi (1995) suggested that, in addition to predation by Potamocorbula, the decline may have been partly due to competition with P. forbesi, noting that Eurytemora continues to be seasonally present in winter and spring when P. forbesi is scarce, both within and upstream of Potamocorbula's range. Orsi (1995) also suggested that predation by the introduced copepod Tortanus sp. may account for a decline in Pseudodiaptomus in western Suisun Bay in 1994.

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Pseudodiaptomus marinus (Sato, 1913) Pseudodiaptomus marinus is native to China, Japan and Pacific Russia, and has been introduced to Hawaii and Mauritius (Jones, 1966; Grindley & Grice, 1969; Orsi et al., 1983). It was collected north of San Diego in Mission Bay in 1986 and in Aqua Hedionda Lagoon in May 1987 (Fleminger & Kramer, 1988). It was first collected in the San Francisco Estuary from western Suisun Bay in 1986, and has been collected from there upstream to Collinsville on the Sacramento River, in waters with surface salinities ranging from about 2 to 18 ppt. It has also been collected from Tomales Bay (Orsi & Walter, 1991). Pseudodiaptomus marinus may have been introduced to San Francisco Bay in ballast water, to the southern California bays or Tomales Bay in oyster shipments, and moved between bays by coastal currents (Fleminger & Kramer, 1988; Orsi & Walter, 1991). Fleminger & Kramer (1988) suggested that the native copepod P. euryhalinus may have been displaced by P. marinus in southern California embayments, and called for more sampling to determine whether P. euryhalinus was in fact absent or confined to sites where P. marinus had not become established. Sinocalanus doerrii (Brehm, 1909) SYNONYMS: Sinocalanus mystrophorus Burckhardt, 1913 This calanoid copepod is native to the rivers of mainland China, and like the other pelagic copepods described here was probably introduced in ballast water. It was first collected from the Estuary near Pittsburg in 1978 and soon became (from 1979 to the early 1980s) the most abundant copepod in the Delta, with maximum densities of over 10,000 individuals/m2 and greatest densities from June to September. It has been collected from throughout the Delta upstream to Hood on the Sacramento River and Stockton on the San Joaquin River, and downstream to San Pablo Bay, generally at salinities below 5 or 6 ppt but on occasion up to nearly 15 ppt. Its downstream limit may be regulated by both salinity and the location of the entrapment zone (Orsi et al., 1983; Ambler et al., 1985; Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Orsi, 1995). It was not collected in 1994, but reappeared in 1995 (J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). Five species are recognized in the genus Sinocalanus, all from the northwestern Pacific. As S. doerrii had not been collected in regular plankton surveys in the Estuary in 1963 and from 1972-78, it was probably introduced shortly before 1978 via ballast water (Orsi et al., 1983). Orsi et al. suggest, based on the apparent pattern of spread in 1978-79, that the site of introduction was in the Pittsburg-Antioch area near where S. doerrii was first collected. They further suggest that water pumped out of the Delta into the California Aqueduct will carry S. doerrii to water project reservoirs near Los Angeles, and that the Columbia River and Puget Sound are likely sites for secondary introductions via the ballast water carried by coastal ships. Several researchers have considered interactions between Sinocalanus doerrii and other copepods in the northern estuary (some of which are discussed above under Pseudodiaptomus forbesi). Orsi et al. (1983) noted that competition between Sinocalanus and the cryptogenic copepod Eurytemora affinis was unlikely because their preferred salinity ranges differed, and suggested that competition and/or predation between Sinocalanus and the freshwater copepods Cyclops and Diaptomus was a stronger

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possibility and should be investigated. Ambler et al. (1985) questioned whether there is competition for food, at least in years with average river discharge and diatom blooms in Suisun Bay. Meng & Orsi (1991) found that striped bass larvae in laboratory feeding experiments selected Cyclops sp. and Eurytemora over Sinocalanus. Herbold et al. (1992) reported that the introduction of Sinocalanus and of Pseudodiaptomus forbesi in 1987 was followed by declines in Eurytemora and the almost complete elimination of Diaptomus spp., although Herbold & Moyle (1989) had earlier suggested that declines in Delta zooplankton prior to 1979 may have facilitated Sinocalanus' establishment. Kimmerer (1991) reported laboratory studies indicating that although Sinocalanus may be food limited in the estuary in some years, Eurytemora is not and so competition with recently introduced copepods could not account for Eurytemora's decline. Orsi (1995) suggested that Sinocalanus had "apparently slipped into an unoccupied niche" between Eurytemora downstream and Diaptomus species upstream in the San Joaquin River, but noted that Diaptomus abundance fell when Sinocalanus spread upstream. Herbold & Moyle (1989) had noted that the invasion of the Sacramento River by Sinocalanus coincided with a reduction in the relative abundance of chlorophyll in the north Delta. Tortanus sp. This large calanoid copepod of unknown origin was collected in Suisun Bay in the fall of 1993 and in 1994 (Orsi, 1994, 1995; J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). It preys on other copepods and Orsi (1995) suggests that it may have caused a decline in Pseudodiaptomus in western Suisun Bay in 1994. Its prior absence in this well-studied region of the Bay suggests that it was introduced in ballast water.

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Cirripedia Balanus amphitrite Darwin, 1854 STRIPED BARNACLE SYNONYMS: Balanus amphitrite amphitrite Darwin, 1854 Balanus amphitrite hawaiiensis Broch, 1922 Balanus amphitrite denticulata Broch, 1927 Balanus amphitrite herzi Rogers, 1949 Balanus amphitrite franciscanus Rogers, 1949 Balanus amphitrite saltonensis Rogers, 1949 This subtropical and warm-temperate barnacle is native to the Indian Ocean but has been distributed widely. In perhaps the earliest scientific recognition of the phenomenon of marine introductions, Darwin (1854, pp. 162-163) noted that Balanus amphitrite, B. improvisus and a few other barnacles "which seem to range over nearly the whole world (excepting the colder seas)" may have been transported to parts of their reported range as fouling on ships. B. amphitrite was collected in Hawaii in the early 1900s. In California it was found in La Jolla in 1921, in San Diego in 1927, in San Francisco Bay in 1938-39, and in the Los Angeles/Long Beach area in 1940 (Zullo et al., 1972; Carlton, 1979a, p. 585). In 1945 it was found in the Salton Sea, probably introduced from San Diego Bay attached to "navy planes, boats, buoys, ropes, or other marine equipment that was transferred in large quantity to the sea for training purposes" (Carlton, 1979a). It was first collected from the Gulf of California and the west coast of Mexico in 1946, and appeared on the Atlantic coast of North America after World War II. Although Balanus amphitrite tolerates water temperatures down to 12C it requires at least 18C to breed. It may thus be restricted to warmer sites within San Francisco Bay, where it has been collected from scattered locations in the northern South Bay, Central Bay and San Pablo Bay (Newman, 1967). In Britain and the Netherlands it lives in areas heated by the outflow from power plants (Vaas, 1978; Carlton, 1979a). Balanus improvisus Darwin, 1854 BAY BARNACLE Balanus improvisus, a native of the North Atlantic, is the most freshwater-tolerant of the barnacles and has been widely introduced around the world. It is also the earliest known introduction to San Francisco Bay, having been identified from a mussel shell in U. C. Berkeley's Museum of Paleontology that was collected from the harbor of San Francisco in 1853 (Carlton & Zullo, 1969). This early introduction was probably the result of transport as fouling on ship hulls. B. improvisus is next known in San Francisco Bay from specimens on the shell of an Atlantic oyster, Crassostrea virginica, collected at San Mateo in 1900, and the barnacle then appears in collections from every decade of the twentieth century, often on oyster or mussel shells (Carlton & Zullo, 1969). A second introduction (and possibly additional introductions) of B. improvisus, with shipments of Atlantic oysters that began in 1869

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thus seems possible. It is not known whether the 1850s population, introduced by shipping, persisted or died out. B. improvisus was collected from Monterey Bay in 1916, from the Los Angeles/Long Beach area in 1932, and from San Simeon Point and San Diego in 1939. Despite these records from the 1930s, B. improvisus does not appear to be established in southern California. There are other reports from the tropical or subtropical Pacific, though actual collections are few: the Gulf of California in 1889, 1941 and 1967; the west coast of Mexico in 1960-1968; Colombia in 1854; Ecuador in 1854, 1934, 1963 and 1966; and Peru in 1926. The identification of some of these populations as Balanus improvisus may bear reexamination. B. improvisus is likely established in bays to the north of San Francisco Bay, perhaps in some from which it has not yet been reported. It was collected from Vancouver Island and Willapa Bay in 1955, from the Columbia River in 1957 (on the shell of the crayfish Pacifastacus trowbridgii), and from Coos Bay in 1978. Since World War II, it has also been reported from Japan, Singapore and Australia (Carlton, 1979a). In San Francisco Bay its physiology and behavior were investigated by Newman (1967) who found that it tolerated dilution to 3 percent seawater, and that, surprisingly, it was an osmo-conformer with its blood remaining nearly isotonic with its environment. It is the only barnacle found upstream of Carquinez Strait in the northern part of the estuary. At Antioch it lives in freshwater for ten months of the year. A population was found in December 1962 living on the concrete walls of the Delta Mendota Canal in essentially fresh water, although there is no evidence that barnacles in the canal reproduce successfully (Zullo et al., 1972).

Nebaliacea Epinebalia sp. This unidentified nebaliid was collected on muddy bottom by John Chapman in Aquatic Park Lagoon in Berkeley in 1992, and we found it common at Richmond in 1993 and Lake Merritt in 1993 and 1994. G. Gillingham (pers. comm., 1995) reports "Nebalia pugettensis" collected at the Alameda Naval Air Station in the spring of 1993. The prior absence of reports of any nebaliid from San Francisco Bay, and specifically the absence of a nebaliid from the East Bay shore in the 1960s-1970s, suggests that all these specimens are an introduced nebaliid rather than the native N. pugettensis. Although largely benthic organisms, nebaliids could easily be transported by ballast water in suspended sediments swept up from the bottom while the ship is ballasting.

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Mysidacea Acanthomysis aspera Ii, 1964 This planktonic Japanese mysid was found in the northern part of the San Francisco Estuary in 1992 and was still present, though not abundant in 1993-94. It was probably introduced in ballast water (T. W. Bowman, in litt. to J. J. Orsi; Orsi, 1994, 1995). Acanthomysis sp. An undescribed species of Acanthomysis, resembling A. sinensis (T. W. Bowman, in litt. 23 Mar. 1994 to J. J. Orsi), was collected in Suisun Bay in 1992, and was more abundant than the common native opossum shrimp Neomysis mercedis by 1994 (J. Orsi, pers. comm., 1995). Because its morphology resembles that of western Pacific mysids and is unlike that of eastern Pacific species, it is probably native to the western Pacific and was transported to California in ballast water (Orsi, 1994; T. W. Bowman, in litt.). Deltamysis holmquistae Bowman & Orsi, 1992 Deltamysis holmquistae was first collected and described from the San Francisco Estuary in 1977. Bowman & Orsi (1992) report that it has been collected every year since, ranging from one specimen in 1984 to 39 in 1987. Most were collected from Carquinez Strait to the Delta, with one taken in San Pablo Bay during the high spring outflow of 1983. They were found mainly in salinities of 1-2 ppt at the upstream edge of the entrapment zone, but ranged from 0-19 ppt. Deltamysis is in the tribe Heteromysini along with mysids that are commensal or epibenthic, or that swim among sea grass plants, and this could account for the small numbers of Deltamysis collected in open water trawls. That Deltamysis was not collected until 1977 despite sampling for mysids since 1963, and that it has been collected regularly if sparsely since 1977, strongly suggests that it is introduced, probably in ballast water. There are no known mysid species that closely resemble it (Bowman & Orsi, 1992), but targeted searches in western Pacific estuaries that are the origin of other recent zooplankton introductions could be fruitful.

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Cumacea Nippoleucon hinumensis (Gamo, 1967) SYNONYMS: Hemileucon hinumensis This cumacean is native to Japan and was introduced to the northeast Pacific in ballast water. The California Department of Water Resources has collected it in San Francisco Bay in the western Delta and Grizzly Bay since 1986, and at densities of hundreds or thousands/m2 (with a maximum of over 12,000/m2) it was one of the three numerically dominant species in these areas from 1988 to 1990. It has also been collected at Pt. Pinole in San Pablo Bay since sampling started there in 1991 (Hymanson et al., 1994; DWR, 1995). We collected it from the Napa River, San Pablo Bay and the South Bay in 1993-94. It was collected in Oregon from Coos Bay in 1979, from the Umpqua River in 1983, from Yaquina Bay in 1988, and from the Columbia River (J. Chapman, pers. comm.; JTC, pers. obs.).

Isopoda Dynoides dentisinus Shen, 1929 We collected this isopod, known previously from Japan and Korea, in fouling from the Oakland Estuary in 1977 and from the Richmond Marina in 1994. It was probably transported in ship fouling or ballast water. Eurylana arcuata (Hale, 1925) SYNONYMS: Cirolana arcuata Cirolana concinna Hale Cirolana robusta Menzies, 1962 Eurylana arcuata was collected in San Francisco Bay on eight occasions in 1978 and 1979 from the cooling water intake screen of a power plant at Rodeo in San Pablo Bay, including brooding females and juveniles (Bowman et al., 1981). We collected it from floating docks on Coast Guard Island in the Oakland Estuary in 1993 and 1994. Eurylana arcuata was first described from Australia, but has not been reported from there since. It was reported from New Zealand, where it is widespread and abundant, in 1961, and from several distant sites in Chile (as Cirolana concinna and C. robusta) since 1962. It is not known which of these is its native region. It was likely introduced to San Francisco Bay in fouling or ballast water (Bowman et al., 1981).

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Iais californica (Richardson, 1904) Iais californica is a small commensal isopod that is generally found clinging to the ventral surface of the introduced burrowing isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum. It was described from San Francisco Bay in 1904, but was presumably introduced along with Sphaeroma in ship fouling by 1893. Iais was reported from New Zealand and Australia in 1956. In California, Iais has been collected in most of the bays and harbors where Sphaeroma is found, and from none where Sphaeroma is absent (Carlton, 1979a). In 1995 we found it on Sphaeroma burrowing in floating docks on Isthmus Slough in Coos Bay. Iais scavenges food from the mouthparts and the burrow walls of its host, and is protected from predators and adverse conditions both by Sphaeroma's burrow and Sphaeroma's habit of curling into a ball when disturbed. Iais is occasionally found on the native isopod Gnorimosphaeroma oregonensis when the latter live in Sphaeroma burrows. Unlike Sphaeroma, Gnorimosphaeroma will actively remove Iais (Rotramel, 1975b). These commensal relations have been studied by Rotramel (1972, 1975b) and Schneider (1976). Limnoria quadripunctata Holthuis, 1949 and Limnoria tripunctata Menzies, 1951 GRIBBLE Limnoria are small wood-boring isopods that are well-known for attacking and damaging ships' hulls, pilings and other wooden structures in contact with sea water (Kofoid, 1921; Hill & Kofoid, 1927). Many species of Limnoria have been described, some of them morphologically very similar. Some reported distributions are wide to circumglobal or strikingly disjunct, and undoubtedly complicated by centuries of transoceanic and interoceanic travel in the hulls of wooden ships. Prior to the 1950s, all Limnoria on the Pacific coast were assigned to Limnoria lignorum, a species which is possibly native from Alaska to Humboldt County, but not known from San Francisco Bay. A Limnoria species was reported from Los Angeles in 1871 and San Diego in 1876 (Carlton, 1979). Limnoria was not mentioned in 1855, 1863 and 1869 reports on shipworm damage to pilings in San Francisco Bay (Ayres & Trask, 1855; Harris & Ayres, 1863; Neily, 1927), but was described as "recently appeared" on the San Francisco waterfront (probably L. quadripunctata, based on current distribution and thermal requirements) in 1873 (Arnold, 1873), and reported from the Oakland Estuary (probably L. tripunctata) in 1875 (Merritt, 1875). L. quadripunctata has since been collected from numerous embayments from La Jolla to Humboldt Bay, and L. tripunctata from Port Hueneme in Ventura County, California to Mexico, with the tripunctata population in the warm-water margins of San Francisco Bay remaining as an isolated northern outpost (Carlton, 1979). Carlton (1979) has argued that the Limnoria reported from northern Oregon, Washington and British Columbia as tripunctata (Quayle, 1964b) is probably a different species. The native regions of L. quadripunctata and tripunctata are not known. They were transported to the Pacific Coast in the hulls of wooden ships, and dispersed along the coast in ships' hulls, log booms, log shipments or drifting wood.

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Paranthura sp. In 1993 we collected a species of Paranthura that had not previously been reported from San Francisco Bay (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). The isopod was very common in fouling on floating docks from the South Bay and Central Bay and north to Richmond in 1993 and 1994, but was not observed in 1995. Initial examination suggests strong affinities with western Pacific species (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). Introduction has likely been by ship fouling or ballast water. Sphaeroma quoyanum Milne-Edwards, 1840 SYNONYMS: Sphaeroma pentodon Richardson, 1904 Sphaeroma is a burrowing, filter-feeding isopod native to New Zealand, Tasmania and Australia, and was collected in San Francisco Bay in 1893, probably having been introduced via ship fouling. It spread widely in California and was collected in Humboldt Bay, Tomales Bay, Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbors, and San Diego Bay in the late 1920s and early 1930s, and in several intervening bays and in San Quintin Bay, Baja California since the 1950s (Carlton, 1979a). In 1995 we found it burrowing in floating docks on Isthmus Slough in Coos Bay. Sphaeroma is reported as common and frequently abundant throughout San Francisco Bay at least as far upstream as Antioch (Kofoid & Miller, 1927), though we did not find it on docks in the seaward portion of the Central Bay. It burrows into all types of soft substrate, including clay, peat, mud, sandstone and soft or decaying wood, and wood that has been bored by shipworms and gribbles. It is frequently found riddling the styrofoam floats underneath docks, and is sometimes abundant in fouling accumulations. Carlton (1979a,b) suggested that Sphaeroma's burrowing could be responsible for substantial erosion of intertidal sediments, which he estimated as possibly amounting to the loss of tens or scores of meters of land along many kilometers of shoreline in San Francisco Bay. However, no measurements of Sphaeroma's topographic impact have ever been made. Studies of its biology in central California include those of Barrows (1919), Rotramel (1972, 1975a,b) and Schneider (1976).

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Synidotea laevidorsalis (Miers, 1881) SYNONYMS: Synidotea laticauda Benedict, 1897 Synidotea laticauda was described from San Francisco Bay oyster beds in 1897. It is commonly found in the Bay on the bottom and on buoys, floating docks and pilings among masses of the introduced Indo-Pacific hydroid Garveia franciscana (upon which it is thought to feed) and the introduced Atlantic bryozoan Conopeum tenuissimum (Carlton, 1979a). S. laticauda was long considered to be a native species restricted to the Bay, and its distribution and that of two other northern Pacific Synidotea species was explained by a model involving Pleistocene climate changes, range constrictions and expansions, isolation and evolution, and competition (Miller, 1968; Menzies & Miller, 1972). Chapman & Carlton (1991, 1994) identified S. laticauda from Willapa Bay and synonymized S. laticauda with S. marplatensis and S. brunnea of eastern South America (where it was first collected in 1918) under the Asian name S. laevidorsalis. They concluded that the species is native to Asia and was transported to San Francisco Bay among hydroids and bryozoans fouling the hulls of ships (probably from China), transported by similar means to South America (probably from San Francisco Bay), and transported to Willapa Bay either from San Francisco (in ship fouling or with cargoes of the native oyster Ostrea conchaphila) or Asia (in ship fouling or with cargoes of the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas). Synidotea laevidorsalis is reported to be a common benthic organism from the far South Bay to Pittsburg in Suisun Bay, and less common in the Central Bay and upstream to Antioch. It was collected in both the shallows and the channels, at concentrations typically up to 100/m2 (Hopkins, 1986; Markmann, 1986). In 1993-95 we found it common to abundant on floating docks and buoys in San Pablo Bay and the Napa River. It is said to be an important food of diving ducks and fish (Painter, 1966).

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Tanaidacea Sinelobus sp. This abundant tanaid was first reported from San Francisco Bay by Miller (1968, as Tanais sp.) based upon material collected from a navigation buoy in San Pablo Bay in 1943, and later by Miller (1975, as Tanais sp., cf. T. vanis) and Carlton (1979a, as Tanais sp., cf. T. vanis, and 1979b, as Tanais sp.), based upon specimens collected in Lake Merritt, Oakland by Carlton commencing in 1963. Carlton (1979a) further reported specimens collected in 1965 from Corte Madera Creek in Marin County from the stomach of the native sculpin Cottus asper. The only other records appear to be from Humboldt Bay (as Tanais sp.; S. Larned, pers. comm., 1989), and from several estuaries in British Columbia (as Tanais stanfordi; Levings & Rafi, 1978) where it occurred in densities up to 17,400 per 0.25 square meter in muddy sediments over a salinity range of 3.7 to 22.7 ppt, and in 7 out of 21 plankton tow stations. Levings & Rafi (1978) noted that there were no previous records of stanfordi from the west coast of North America. Sieg (1980) and Sieg & Winn (1981) considered the report and figure of Miller (1968) to belong to Sinelobus stanfordi (Richardson, 1901). They further synonymized the earlier report of Menzies & Miller (1954) of a "Tanais sp." from central California with Sinelobus stanfordi, but that record is based on material collected on the outer rocky shore (Light, 1941, p. 92) and no doubt refers to a different species. Sinelobus stanfordi was described from the Galapagos Islands, and has subsequently been reported from "Arctic cold, north Pacific temperate, southern temperate waters, tropical warm Pacific, tropical Indo-West Pacific, tropical Indian, and tropical warm Atlantic" waters (Sieg, 1986). Localities include Brazil, West Indies, the Mediterranean, Senegal, South Africa, Tuamotu Archipelago, and Hawaii, as well as the boreal Kurile Islands, and Holdich & Jones (1983) added England. Reported habitats include fresh, brackish, marine and hypersaline water. Given this broad distribution, it is probable that a species complex is involved (including taxa which have been dispersed synanthropically), and we are hesitant to apply the name of a warm tropical tanaid described from the Galapagos Islands to the San Francisco Bay population. Though this population was earlier identified as Tanais vanis Miller, 1940, this is an algal-dwelling species of Hawaiian fringing coral reefs (Carlton, 1979a) and thus also not likely to be the species in San Francisco Bay. This small crustacean is widespread throughout the estuarine margin of the Bay, and has been collected upstream at least as far as Chipps Island (Siegfried et al., 1980). It is replaced by the cryptogenic and more marine tanaid Leptochelia dubia in the middle and outer bay regions. In addition to the benthic habitat noted by Levings & Rafi (1978) in British Columbia, in San Francisco Bay it occurs commonly in fouling communities among masses of the introduced tubeworm Ficopomatus and lumbering along in intertwined mats of the green algae Ulva and Cladophora, often in association with the introduced amphipods Melita and Corophium. It occurs commonly in habitats where all other peracarids are introduced or cryptogenic. We regard Sinelobus sp. of San Francisco Bay as introduced; the origin of these populations remains unknown. Introduction was possibly via ship fouling or ballast water.

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Amphipoda Ampelisca abdita Mills, 1964 SYNONYMS: Ampelisca milleri of San Francisco Bay authors, not of Barnard, 1954 Ampelisa milleri of Dickinson, 1982 (Dillon Beach record) Ampelisca abdita is native to northwest Atlantic from Maine to the eastern Gulf of Mexico. It was collected on the Pacific coast from San Francisco Bay in 1954, from Tomales Bay in 1969, and from Bolinas Lagoon in 1971 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 645; Chapman, 1988). On the Atlantic coast, Ampelisca abdita often occurs in oyster beds and forms extensive mats of silt tubes which provides stable substrate for numerous other organisms. As A. abdita is a small amphipod, Chapman (1988) argues that it could have been present in the Bay for a long time before the 1950s and not been noticed due to a combination of the undeveloped taxonomy of small amphipods up to that time and the use of sieves with mesh openings of at least 1 mm (which retain few A. abdita) in early surveys. Thus it could have arrived with shipments of Atlantic oysters in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Since A. abdita sometimes migrates into the water column (Chapman, 1988), it could also have arrived later in ballast water. Ampelisca abdita is now a very common and abundant benthic organism in San Francisco Bay, recorded at virtually all sites surveyed from far South Bay to Carquinez Strait, with concentrations commonly of 1,000-50,000/square meter. It is less abundant in western part of Central Bay, and less common and less abundant in Suisun Bay, although collected upstream to Antioch (Hopkins, 1986). Its abundance varies annually, peaking around October, although Ampelisca may be eliminated from large regions of the Bay by floods, either because of salinity changes or sedimentation. When abundant, it may interfere with the recruitment of Macoma petalum (Nichols & Thompson, 1985a). Ampithoe valida Smith, 1873 Ampithoe valida is native to the northwest Atlantic from New Hampshire to Chesapeake Bay (Bousfield, 1973). It has been collected on the central California coast from San Francisco and Tomales bays (first records in 1941), Morro Bay (1960), Bodega Harbor and Bolinas Lagoon (1975) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 649), and Humboldt Bay (S. Larned, pers. comm.). There are single records from Newport Bay in southern California (1942), Coos Bay, Oregon (1950) (Carlton, 1979a) and several other records from Oregon to southern British Columbia since the late 1960s (Conlan & Bousfield, 1982; Chapman, pers. comm.). Ampithoe valida builds and lives in tubes on algae and eelgrass, and has been found on oyster beds on the Atlantic coast. It could have been introduced to San Francisco Bay with Atlantic oyster shipments and remained undetected for decades, or arrived in hull fouling or ballast water. In 1993-94 we collected it at several stations in San Pablo Bay, at Coyote Point in the South Bay, and at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

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Caprella mutica Schurin, 1935 SYNONYMS: Caprella acanthogaster of Pacific coast authors (e.g., Carlton, 1979a, 1979b), not of Mayer, 1890 Caprella acanthogaster humboldtiensis Martin, 1977 SKELETON SHRIMP This caprellid shrimp, a native of the Sea of Japan, has been collected in Humboldt Bay (about 1973-77), San Francisco Bay (1976-1977), Elkhorn Slough (19781979) and Coos Bay, Oregon (1983) (Martin, 1977; Marelli, 1981; JTC, unpublished). Marelli (1981) concluded that Martin (1977) had incorrectly described this Japanese species from Humboldt Bay as a new subspecies of Caprella acanthogaster (which is a species distinct from C. mutica). It was reported as comprising 40 percent of the caprellids at Field's Landing in Humboldt Bay (Martin, 1977) and 90 percent of the caprellids in the Oakland Estuary (D. Cross, pers. comm., 1977). Based on its recent date of discovery on the Pacific coast, Caprella mutica may have been introduced to Humboldt Bay with shipments of Japanese oysters, which occurred from 1953 through the 1970s, and secondarily introduced to San Francisco Bay; or it may have been introduced to either or both bays in ballast water (Caprella species have been found to survive transport in ballast tanks; Carlton, 1985, p. 346). Chelura terebrans Philippi, 1839 Chelura terebrans lives in burrows in wood in association with wood-boring isopods in the genus Limnoria, and reportedly feeds upon Limnoria's fecal pellets (Khne & Becker, 1971). It has undoubtedly been transported around the world with Limnoria in the hulls of wooden ships. It is reported from the Atlantic on both the American and European coasts, the Mediterranean and Black seas, and from French West Africa and South Africa. In the western Pacific it has been collected in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. Its area of origin is unknown. The absence of Chelura from Limnoria-bored wood in San Francisco Bay, Monterey Bay and Santa Barbara County was noted by the marine piling surveys of the 1920s (Kofoid, 1921; Atwood & Johnson, 1924; Hill & Kofoid, 1927), although Carlton (1979a) argues that due to the patchy distribution of Chelura populations it could have been present and overlooked. Chelura was not recorded from the northeast Pacific until 1948 at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco Bay (US Navy, 1951, p. 185), followed by collections from Los Angeles Harbor (1950) and Grays Harbor, Washington (1959-1960) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 650).

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Corophium acherusicum Costa, 1857 Corophium acherusicum has been reported from bays and harbors in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, though which of these may be its native region is unknown. On the Pacific coast it has been collected from numerous bays and harbors ranging from British Columbia (and possibly Alaska) to Baja California. Early records are from Yaquina Bay, Oregon (1905), San Francisco Bay (1912-13 Albatross survey), Puget Sound, Washington (1915), Vancouver Island, British Columbia (1928), and Newport and Anaheim bays in southern California (1935-36) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 653). Corophium acherusicum is a common fouling organism on floats and pilings, has been reported from oysters, and reported from ship hulls on several occasions (references in Carlton, 1979a). It was probably introduced to the Pacific Coast either as ship fouling or possibly in shipments of Atlantic oysters. In San Francisco Bay Corophium acherusicum has been collected upstream to Collinsville, and is among the most common species in the Department of Water Resources' benthic samples at Carquinez Strait. In 1993-94 we collected it at stations in San Pablo Bay and in the Petaluma River. It established high densities in Suisun and Honker bays during the 1977 drought (Markmann, 1986). Corophium alienense Chapman, 1988 Corophium alienense was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1973 and is probably native to Southeast Asia, based on its morphological similarity to other Southeast Asian Corophium (Chapman, 1988). It was most likely introduced to San Francisco Bay in ballast water (Corophium are known to migrate into the water column at night, and ballast water often contains amphipods; Carlton & Geller, 1993), possibly in or on naval ships returning from Vietnam (Carlton, 1979a, as Corophium sp.; Chapman, 1988). It has become abundant in many parts of the Bay from the South Bay to the Delta, and is especially abundant on shallow subtidal and intertidal muddy sand (Chapman, 1988). In 1993-94 we collected it at scattered sites from Tiburon upstream to Rodeo and the Napa River. It was also found in abundance in Bodega Harbor in 1992 (J. Chapman, pers. comm.). Corophium heteroceratum Yu, 1938 Corophium heteroceratum was collected from San Francisco Bay at least by 1989 (Chapman & Cole, 1994) and possibly as early as 1985 or 1986 (Chapman, pers. comm., 1995), and from Los Angeles Harbor in 1990. Outside of California, the only records are the type specimens collected in 1929 from a tide pool in Tangku (Tanggu), China, in the northwestern Yellow Sea. C. heteroceratum is probably native to Asia, as it is morphologically similar to other Asian species of Corophium (Chapman & Cole, 1994). In San Francisco Bay, Corophium heteroceratum is found on silty sediments at low intertidal or subtidal depths at salinities over 15 ppt, frequently co-occurring with the introduced Atlantic amphipod Ampelisca abdita. It is widespread and locally abundant in the Bay, especially at salinities >20 ppt and temperatures >16 C, reaching densities of up to 9,600/m2, and has been collected at least from the northern South Bay to northern San Pablo Bay (Chapman & Cole, 1994), with a few records from Grizzly Bay

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(DWR, 1995). We tentatively assign a first date of collection of this amphipod in San Francisco Bay as 1986, based upon the arguments presented by Chapman & Cole (1994) and upon probable circa-1986 specimens received by J. Chapman (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). In 1993-94, we collected C. heteroceratum at Tiburon and at two stations in San Pablo Bay. As Corophium heteroceratum has been found exclusively on soft-bottom, not on hard substrates or buoy fouling in San Francisco Bay, it is unlikely to have been transported in ship fouling (Chapman & Cole, 1994). Ballast water transport seems likely, as Corophium are known to migrate into the water column at night (Chapman, 1988), and ballast water often contains demersal plankton (benthic organisms that migrate into the water column), including amphipods (Carlton & Geller, 1993). Corophium insidiosum Crawford, 1937 Corophium insidiosum is a North Atlantic species known from both the European and American coasts (Bousfield, 1973), and introduced to both Chile (by 1947) and Hawaii (by 1970) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 657). The first Pacific record is a specimen taken from the stomach of a bird, a greater scaup, collected at Oyster Bay, Washington in 1915. In 1931 Corophium insidiosum was collected in Lake Merritt in San Francisco Bay, where it was thought to be a new species. It was found in four southern California bays from 1949-1952, in Tomales Bay, Monterey Harbor, Bolinas Lagoon and Elkhorn Slough between 1961 and 1977, in the Strait of Georgia in British Columbia in 1975 (Carlton, 1979a), and on a wooden ship in Humboldt Bay, in 1987 (Carlton & Hodder, 1995). It is commonly found in fouling, and was probably transported to the northwestern Pacific in ship fouling or with shipments of Atlantic oysters. Corophium insidiosum has remained abundant in Lake Merritt where we collected it in 1993-94, as well as at several sites from the mouth of the Bay upstream to Martinez, at Coyote Point in the South Bay, and at Aquatic Park in Berkeley. Gammarus daiberi Bousfield, 1969 Gammarus daiberi is native to the northwestern Atlantic in estuaries and sounds from Delaware and Chesapeake bays to South Carolina (Bousfield, 1973). In these locations it attains its highest densities in salinities of 1-5 ppt, but is found seaward to 15 ppt. It was collected in the central Delta in 1983, and since 1986 has been regularly collected in the central and western Delta and Suisun Bay (Hymanson et al., 1994). In 1993-94 we collected it from Bethel Island in the Delta and from Martinez. It is eaten by young striped bass (Hymanson et al., 1994). On the Atlantic coast it is described as mainly pelagic, though also commonly collected on the bottom and in fouling (E. L. Bousfield in litt. to W. C. Fields, Jr., 1991). We consider it to be probably a ballast water introduction, and less likely a ship fouling introduction.

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Grandidierella japonica Stephensen, 1938 This tube-dwelling amphipod is native to Japan. It was collected from San Francisco Bay near Vallejo and in Lake Merritt, Oakland, in 1966, from Tomales Bay in 1969, from Bolinas Lagoon in 1971, from Drakes Estero in 1972-73 (Chapman & Dorman, 1975; Carlton, 1979a, p. 662) and from Coos Bay, Oregon since 1977 (JTC, pers. obs.). It has been established in southern California bays since at least the early 1980s (J. Chapman, pers. comm.). It is typically found on muddy or mud-sand bottom, sometimes in oyster beds, and sometimes in fouling. It was introduced with commercial oyster transplants from Japan, with ship fouling or in ballast water. Grandidierella japonica has been collected from all parts of San Francisco Bay, from the South Bay near Redwood City upstream to Antioch. It is one of the most common benthic species in San Pablo Bay and Carquinez Strait (Chapman & Dorman, 1975; Nichols & Thompson, 1985a; Markmann, 1986). In 1993-94 we collected it from several stations in San Pablo Bay upstream to Martinez, Napa and Petaluma, from Coyote Point in the South Bay, and from Lake Merritt and Berkeley's Aquatic Park in the East Bay. In Bolinas Lagoon it has been recorded from the stomachs of least and western sandpipers, dunlin, black-bellied plover and willet (Page & Stenzel, 1975; Stenzel et al., 1976). Jassa marmorata Holmes, 1903 SYNONYM: Jassa falcata of Pacific coast authors in reference to bay or estuary populations, not of Montagu, 1808 (see Conlan, 1990). This Atlantic fouling amphipod is now widely spread on both sides of the North Atlantic, in the Mediterranean and on the Pacific coast of North America, and reported from other locations as well. Carlton (1979a) predicted that the bay and harbor populations of so-called "Jassa falcata" represented "an introduced taxon." Conlan (in litt., 7 Oct. 1986 to JTC and in litt., 5 Aug. 1986 to J.W. Chapman) noted that based on her systematic revision of the genus Jassa and her field work on the Pacific coast, she "found the distribution of [Jassa] to be as predicted by" Carlton (1979a): endemic species occurred on the exposed outer coast, and the Atlantic Jassa marmorata to be harborrestricted. Conlan (in litt.; also see Conlan, 1988) states that Jassa marmorata is "the most recently derived of all species of Jassa," that it originated in the North Atlantic and specifically on the "Atlantic North American coast," and that it is introduced to Europe, the Mediterranean, the Pacific Ocean (China, Japan, USSR, Chile, and Pacific North America), the South Atlantic (Brazil, West Africa, and South Africa), the Indian Ocean (Zanzibar) and Australia and New Zealand. It ranges in the Western Atlantic from Newfoundland to Texas and Cuba. On the Pacific coast J. marmorata has been collected from Alaska (one locality, Point Slocum) and British Columbia (Victoria Harbor, Bamfield) and then from Coos Bay, Oregon to Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California (Conlan, 1990). Additional harbor records cited by Carlton (1979a, pp. 667668) may also include Jassa marmorata. The earliest San Francisco Bay record appears to be material collected in the Oakland Estuary in 1977 (Carlton, 1979a). That Jassa marmorata is a 20th century rather than a 19th century introduction is suggested by the relatively late reports of estuarine

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members of the Jassa falcata group from the eastern Pacific (in 1941 from Estero de San Antonio, 75 km north of San Francisco, and in 1942 from Magdalena Bay, Baja California; Carlton, 1979a). Both Carlton (1979a) and Conlan (1988) have declined to accept Barnard's (1969) proposal that "Podocerus californicus," described by Boeck (1872) from California, is "Jassa falcata." Jassa marmorata occurs in fouling communities and on ship hulls (Bousfield, 1973) and with oysters (Wells, 1961, as "Jassa falcata"). It has also been collected from the ballast tanks of a cargo ship arriving in Coos Bay, Oregon after a 15 day trip from Japan, in water that had been taken aboard in Kobe on the Inland Sea of Japan (specimens identified by K. Conlan, in litt., 4 Aug. 1988). Lack of early reports of this now locally common species suggests ship fouling or ballast water as the primary mechanism of transport. Leucothoe sp. We regard the endocommensal amphipod found inside the introduced tunicates Ciona and Ascidia in San Francisco Bay as an introduced species. It may belong to the species complex bearing the names Leucothoe spinicarpa (Abildgaard, 1789) and Leucothoe alata Barnard, 1959 (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). Nagata's (1965) illustrations of "Leucothoe alata" from Japan, which may not be the same as Barnard's original material of this species, appear close to if not identical to San Francisco Bay specimens (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). In 1993-94 we collected this amphipod in Ciona and Ascidia at Coyote Point in the South Bay and Coast Guard Island in the Oakland Estuary. It was likely introduced inside a tunicate transported either in ship fouling or possibly with oyster shipments. While the first actual collection record that we have found is material collected in 1977 from the Oakland Estuary, this leucothoid may have been present in the northeastern Pacific since the introduction of Ciona (which was collected in San Diego Bay in 1897 and in San Francisco Bay in 1932). Melita nitida Smith, 1873 Melita nitida is native to the northwestern Atlantic, ranging from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Yucatan Peninsula. It was first collected from San Francisco Bay in 1938, from Howe Sound in British Columbia in 1973, from Elkhorn Slough in 1975, and in Oregon from Yaquina, Coos and Alsea bays in 1986-87 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 672; Chapman, 1988). On the Pacific coast Melita nitida is commonly found in fouling, under intertidal rocks and debris, and in Enteromorpha or diatom mats on mudflats, in salinities from 0 to 25 ppt (Chapman, 1988). On the Atlantic coast it has been reported from similar habitats as well as from oyster beds. Melita nitida could have been transported to the Pacific coast in ship fouling, in transcontinental shipments of Atlantic oysters, or possibly in solid ballast or ballast water. It could have been transported between bays in fouling or ballast, or with shipments of oysters or the introduced soft-shell clam Mya arenaria. In San Francisco Bay it has been collected from Lake Merritt, Point Richmond, Rodeo, Petaluma, Martinez and Grizzly Bay, and from Collinsville on the Sacramento River at densities of up to 355/m2 (Chapman, 1988; DWR, 1995; and 1993-94 survey).

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Melita sp. In 1993 we collected an amphipod in the genus Melita, distinct from Melita nitida, that had not been previously reported from San Francisco Bay (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). While its origin is unknown, introduction via ship fouling or ballast water are the most probable mechanisms. Paradexamine sp. In 1993-94 we collected an amphipod in the genus Paradexamine that had not been previously reported from San Francisco Bay (J. Chapman, pers. comm., 1995). Introduction was probably by ship fouling or ballast water. Parapleustes derzhavini (Gurjanova, 1938) SYNONYMS: Neopleustes derzhavini Parapleustes derzhavini makiki Barnard, 1970 Parapleustes derzhavini is known as a rare species from among intertidal and subtidal algae in the western Pacific in Japan and Russia. It has also been collected from Hawaii, where it is probably an introduction. In the northeastern Pacific it was collected from San Francisco Bay in 1904 (discovered among USNM campanularid hydroid specimens by J. W. Chapman), Tomales Bay in 1970, Coos Bay in 1986 and Yaquina Bay in 1987 (Carlton, 1979a; Chapman, 1988). In San Francisco Bay it has been collected from San Mateo Point in the South Bay to Grizzly Bay, and upstream as far as Collinsville on the Sacramento River in the 1977 drought (Chapman, 1988; DWR, 1995). It was probably introduced in ship fouling. On the Pacific coast P. derzhavini has been found at salinities of 6 to 32 ppt., abundant on hydroids in fouling but rare on algae. Specimens from brackish water on the Pacific coast identified as Parapleustes pugettensis may in fact be P. derzhavini.

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Stenothoe valida Dana, 1852 Stenothoe valida has a widespread, mainly tropical distribution. It has been reported from only four Pacific coast embayments: San Francisco Bay (first collected in 1941), Los Angeles Harbor (1950-51), Newport Bay (1951) and Bahia de San Quintin, Baja California (1960-61) (Carlton, 1979a, p. 677). It is commonly found among fouling, especially in hydroids, and was probably introduced either in ship fouling or in ballast water. In 1993-94 we collected Stenothoe valida, identified by J. W. Chapman, at sites all around the Central Bay. Transorchestia enigmatica (Bousfield & Carlton, 1967) SHOREHOPPER SYNONYMS: Orchestia enigmatica This beach-dwelling amphipod was first collected in Lake Merritt, Oakland (a brackish lagoon) by JTC in 1962, and is known only from the Lake and (rarely) from the channel connecting to the Oakland Estuary. A closely related (or possibly identical) species, Transorchestia chilensis, is reported from Chile and New Zealand. Like other talitrid amphipods, T. enigmatica cannot survive long immersion in water, and its likeliest means of introduction is in solid ballast (i. e. sand, stones and detritus from beaches) that was in common use by wooden cargo ships up until the 1920s. There was substantial trade between California ports and Peru and Chile from the last half of the 19th century to the 1920s, with ships going south carrying grain or lumber and returning in ballast (Carlton, 1979a).

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Decapoda Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758) GREEN CRAB This common European shorecrab was introduced to the Atlantic coast of North America by 1817 (Say, 1817), to southern Australia by 1900 (Fulton & Grant, 1900) and to South Africa by 1983 (Le Roux et al., 1990). It was first collected in California in the Estero Americano, Solano County, in 1989, and in San Francisco Bay by a bait trapper in Redwood Shores Lagoon, San Mateo County in the summer of 1989 or 1990. It was probably transported to San Francisco Bay in ballast water, although other possible mechanisms include shipment in algae used to pack shipments of live New England bait worms (Nereis virens and Glycera dibranchiata) or lobsters (Homarus americanus), release as discarded research material, or transport in a ship's seawater pipe system (Cohen et al., 1995; Carlton & Cohen, 1995). In San Francisco Bay it has been collected from the South Bay from south of the Dumbarton Bridge to Benicia in the Carquinez Strait, where it is found intertidally and subtidally to 10 meters deep, and in lagoons around the Bay. It is commonly caught in traps set for bait fish (gobies and cottids), sometimes with hundreds of crabs filling each trap, and in shrimp nets. In 1993 it was collected from Drakes Estero, Tomales Bay and Bodega Harbor (Grosholz & Ruiz, 1995), in 1994 from Elkhorn Slough (T. Grosholz, pers, comm., 1994), and in 1995 from Humboldt Bay (T. Miller, pers. comm., 1995). Carcinus tolerates salinities from 4-52 ppt and temperatures down to around 0C, and can reproduce at temperatures up to around 18-26C. In favorable conditions, females can spawn up to 185,000 eggs at a time. In various parts of the world it has become common in virtually all types of protected and semiprotected marine and estuarine habitats, including habitats with mud, sand or rock substrates, eelgrass beds and cordgrass marshes. Its wide environmental tolerances suggest that on the Pacific coast it could eventually range from Baja California to Alaska (Cohen et al., 1995; Carlton & Cohen, 1995). In field observations or laboratory experiments, Carcinus has been seen to eat an enormous variety of prey items, including organisms from at least 104 families and 158 genera in 5 plant and protist and 14 animal phyla. In analyses of stomach contents, dominant prey at different locations have included mussels, clams, snails, polychaetes, crabs, isopods, barnacles and algae (Cohen et al., 1995). In California, Carcinus was observed to significantly reduce the density of the small clams Nutricula (Transennella ) spp., the cumacean Cumella vulgaris, and the amphipod Corophium sp. (Grosholz & Ruiz, 1995), and in the lab also consumed the mussel Mytilus sp., the Asian clams Potamocorbula amurensis and Venerupis philippinarum, and the native crabs Hemigrapsus oregonensis and Cancer magister (Dungeness crab) at up to its own size (Cohen et al., 1995; Grosholz & Ruiz, 1995). Carcinus is fished commercially for food and bait in Europe, though its relatively small size has prevented its entering the commercial market in the United States. Through its predatory activities, it is generally credited with the destruction of soft-shell clam fisheries in New England and Canada in the 1950s, where control efforts have included fencing, trapping and poisoning, with varying success (Cohen et al., 1995).

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Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne-Edwards, 1854 CHINESE MITTEN CRAB Chinese mitten crabs are native to Korea and China from the Yellow Sea to south of Shanghai. They spend most of their lives in the rivers and migrate to the estuaries to reproduce. Most authorities have recognized four species of mitten crabs, including Eriocheir sinensis and E. japonicus which are distinguished by clear and consistent morphological differences (Sakai, 1939; Dai & Yang, 1991). Recently Li et al. (1993) found small genetic distances between these two forms suggestive of a single species, but confirmed the existence of morphological distinctions (which they described as ecophenotypic, although the differences appear to be more simply explained as the expression of genetically different populations and their hybrids). Dai (1993) and Chan et al. (1995) have proposed other modifications to the arrangement of species within the genus. In light of this unstable taxonomy, we continue to treat the Chinese mitten crab, E. sinensis, as a distinct species. A Chinese mitten crab was collected in the Aller River, Germany in 1912, generally presumed to have been introduced in ballast water (Panning, 1939). Mitten crabs spread through the Netherlands and Belgium to northern France by 1930 (Hoestland, 1948), eventually reaching the west coast of France and, via the Garonne River and the Canal du Midi, the Mediterranean coast by 1959 (Hoestland, 1959; Zibrowius, 1991). They became phenomenally abundant in Germany in the mid-1930s, with masses of crabs migrating up the main rivers, piling up against dams, climbing spillways and swarming over the banks onto shore, sometimes wandering onto city streets and entering houses. Government authorities operated barrel and pit traps that caught tens of millions of crabs each year in order to prevent damage to banks and levees (the crabs dig burrows over half a meter deep in mud banks) and reduce interference with trap and net fisheries (Panning, 1939). A "plague of mitten crabs" was similarly reported from the Netherlands in 1981 (Ingle, 1986). Hundreds of adult mitten crabs have been collected along the shores of the Baltic Sea, but as the Baltic's salt content is too low for successful spawning these are generally thought to be individuals transported by ship from the North Sea (Haahtela, 1963; Rasmussen, 1987). Occasional mitten crabs, including a few ovigerous females, have been collected in England since 1976, though it is unclear whether breeding populations are established there (Ingle, 1976). A Chinese mitten crab was collected in the North American Great Lakes in 1965 and nine or ten additional adult crabs were collected between 1973 and 1994, all but one of which were taken from western Lake Erie (Nepszy & Leach, 1973; J. Leach, pers. comm.). As in the Baltic, the Great Lakes are too fresh for mitten crabs to spawn, and each individual is thought to have arrived as a larva or juvenile in ballast water from Europe. A single adult mitten crab was collected from the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana in 1987, with none reported since (Howarth, 1989; D. Felder, pers. comm.). In November, 1994 a crab caught in a shrimp net in the southern end of San Francisco Bay was identified as Eriocheir sinensis by Robert Van Syoc of the California Academy of Sciences. Shrimp trawlers report that they have occasionally caught such crabs, many of them carrying eggs, in the South Bay since 1992 and in San Pablo Bay since the summer of 1994. Of 75 crabs collected from San Francisco Bay, 24 were female, and all but 5 of these were carrying eggs. Several ovigerous females collected in the winter of 1994-95 were maintained in aquaria by the Marine Science Institute of

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Redwood City, California, and hatched active zoeae by the first week of February. In 1995 Katie Halat found juvenile mitten crabs to be common in burrows in the upper parts of sloughs at the southern end of the South Bay. Mitten crabs could either have arrived in San Francisco Bay in ballast water from Asia or Europe, or been intentionally planted in the watershed as a food resource. In 1978 Dustin Chivers of the California Academy of Sciences noted that live mitten crabs could be imported into California from firms in Hong Kong and Macao. In 1986 the California Department of Fish and Game found live mitten crabs, bound with twine, offered for sale in Asian food markets in San Francisco and Los Angeles at prices of $27.50 to $32.00 per kilogram. Although the importing of live mitten crabs was banned by the California government in 1987 and the United States government in 1989, the high price they command has encouraged continuing efforts to import them through official or unofficial channels. On 11 occasions since 1989, U. S. Fish and Wildlife inspectors intercepted batches of 10-28 mitten crabs hand-carried by travelers from Asia disembarking at the San Francisco Airport during the winter (H. Roche, pers. comm.), and crabs have been intercepted at Los Angeles and Seattle as well (M. Osborne and M. Williams, pers. comm.). In 1994 an Asian businessman lobbied the California legislature for permission to import and raise mitten crabs in California (T. Gosliner, pers. comm., 1994). With its establishment in San Francisco Bay, the mitten crab is one of the few catadomous organisms (living in fresh water and breeding in salt) in North America. Studies on these crabs in Asia and Europe indicate that they live in burrows dug in river banks or (in Asia) in rice paddies in coastal areas. Some migrate far upstream, and are recorded from the Changjiang (Yangtze) River over 1,250 km from the sea. In the late fall and winter adult crabs (1-2 years old in China (G. Li, pers. comm., 1995); 3-5 years old in Germany (Panning, 1939)) migrate to coastal waters where they mate, spawn and die. Each female produces from 250,000 to 1 million eggs, which hatch in late spring or early summer. The larvae develop through five increasingly stenohaline and euhaline zoeae and a more euryhaline and mesohaline megalopa. After the final larval molt the juvenile crab settles to the bottom and begins its migration upstream (Panning, 1939; Ingle, 1986; Anger, 1991). The ban on importing live mitten crabs was enacted due to concern over potential damage from its burrows to levees or rice fields in the Central Valley, and because the crab is a second intermediate host of a human parasite, the oriental lung fluke Paragonimus westermanii. Armand Kuris and Mark Torchin of U. C. Santa Barbara found no parasites of any kind in 25 mitten crabs from San Francisco Bay (A. Kuris, pers. comm., 1995). However, since suitable first intermediate snail hosts are present in California or adjacent states (T. Gosliner, pers. comm.), establishment of the fluke is possible, which could lead to infections of humans, or more likely, other mammals. The potential ecosystem impacts of large numbers of river crabs, where none now exist, are unknown.

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Orconectes virilis (Hagen, 1871) VIRILE CRAYFISH SYNONYMS: Cambarus virilis This crayfish is native to Indiana, Illinois and other midwestern states. It was introduced into California waters at Chico in Butte County between 1939 and 1941, from crayfish that were being held in ponds for use as laboratory specimens at Chico State College. It has since been reported at the edges of the Delta in the lower Cosumnes River, in Putah Creek and in drainage and irrigation ditches in Yolo County, and further north in Butte and Colusa counties where it digs burrows in rice fields and eats rice shoots and is considered a pest by farmers (Riegel, 1959; Herbold et al., 1992). The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the native Shasta crayfish Pacifasctacus fortis as an endangered species because it had been extirpated from half its range between 1978 and 1987, in large part due to competition from Orconectes virilis and another introduced crayfish, P. leniusculus, for food and space (Anon., 1987). Pacifastacus leniusculus (Dana, 1852) SIGNAL CRAYFISH SYNONYMS: Astacus leniusculus It is unclear when the signal crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus, native to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, was first introduced to California. Osborne (1977) stated that it was introduced to Lake Tahoe in the 19th century as forage for game fish. Kimsey et al. (1982; repeated by Herbold & Moyle, 1989, and Herbold et al., 1992) reported that it was found in San Francisco County in 1898. Riegel (1959), however, speaking about the introduction of this species to California, reported that in 1912 signal crayfish from the Columbia River "were shipped in large batches to the Brookdale Hatchery of the California Fish and Game Commission in Santa Cruz County [in order] to determine their depredatory effects upon young trout. Later, many were released into the San Lorenzo River near Santa Cruz, and about 200 were shipped to Nevada County, California, and released in a private pond on the Shebley Ranch between Colfax and Grass Valley. They were thriving 18 years later." Bonnot (1930) reported it as imported "in times past for culinary purposes and as biological material." Signal crayfish are now widely distributed throughout the Delta and Bay Area and central California, north to Siskiyou County and south to Monterey County (Riegel, 1959; Hazel & Kelley, 1966). They are the main crayfish taken from the Delta, where a commercial harvest began in 1970 with a catch of 50 tons and produced annual landings of 250 tons by the 1980s (Osborne, 1977; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Commonly found in streams, large rivers, lakes and sometimes muddy sloughs, Riegel (1959) reported it collected on one occasion from dilute brackish water, and Kimsey et al. (1982) reported that it tolerates salinities up to 17 ppt. Pacifastacus leniusculus may have contributed to the extinction of the native sooty crayfish, Pacifastacus nigrescens, which in the 19th century had been abundant in creeks around San Francisco Bay (Riegel, 1959; Kimsey et al., 1982). In 1987 the U. S. Fish and

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Wildlife Service proposed listing the native Shasta crayfish Pacifasctacus fortis as an endangered species because it had been extirpated from half its range between 1978 and 1987, in large part due to competition from P. leniusculus and another introduced crayfish, Orconectes virilis, for food and space (Anon., 1987). Pacifastacus leniusculus has also been introduced to northern Europe, with populations established in Sweden (introduced from Lake Tahoe in 1969; Osborne, 1977), Finland, Lithuania and Poland (McGriff, 1983). In Sweden the introduction of P. leniusculus and a North American crayfish fungus have been described as the main cause of the decimation of the noble crayfish Astacus astacus (Jansson, 1994). Palaemon macrodactylus Rathbun, 1902 ORIENTAL SHRIMP, KOREAN SHRIMP, GRASS SHRIMP This shrimp is native to Korea, Japan and northern China and was first collected in San Francisco Bay in 1957, in Los Angeles Harbor in 1962, in Santa Monica Bay in the 1970s, in Coos Bay in 1987, and in Humboldt Bay in 1995 (Newman, 1963; Carlton, 1979a, p. 687; T. Miller, pers. comm., 1995). It is distributed widely throughout San Francisco Bay and upstream into the Delta, especially in dry years, and has been collected in the Delta-Mendota Canal. It is frequently abundant in brackish lagoons such as Lake Merritt in Oakland and Aquatic Park in Berkeley (Carlton, 1979a). In 1993-94 we collected it from among the fouling on docks at several sites in the Bay and upstream in the Napa River to John F. Kennedy Park and in the Petaluma River to the City of Petaluma. Palaemon's appearance in the Bay around the mid-1950s may be related to increased shipping with South Korean and Japanese ports related to the Korean War. It was likely transported in ballast water or possibly, as Newman (1963) argued, within the fouled seawater system of a ship. Palaemon is a hardy and eurytopic organism tolerating a wide range of salinities down to 1-2 ppt and water of low quality. As discussed by Newman (1963) and Carlton (1979a), although Palaemon's geographic distribution within the estuary overlaps with that of native crangonid shrimp, it is unlikely to substantially compete with them due to differences in habitat use. In the Delta Palaemon mainly eats opossum shrimp Neomysis mercedis (Herbold et al., 1992). Palaemon has been found in the stomachs of white sturgeon, white catfish and striped bass (Gannsle, 1966; Thomas, 1967; McKechnie & Fenner, 1971), and is used as sturgeon bait (Herbold et al., 1992).

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Procambarus clarkii (Girard, 1852) RED SWAMP CRAYFISH SYNONYMS: Cambarus clarkii Girard, 1852 The red swamp crayfish is native to Louisiana, Texas and other southern states, where it is the main cultivated crayfish due to its rapid growth, reaching a marketable size of 7.5 cm in three months (Herbold et al., 1992). Holmes (1924) reported that it was collected from a stream near Pasadena in the summer of 1924 (Skinner (1962) and BDOC (1994) stating that it was introduced from the Midwest in 1925). Riegel (1959) reported that the crayfish was imported in 1932 by a frog farmer in Lakeside, San Diego County for use as frog food, but that it may have already been present in California before then. Its initial appearance in California probably resulted from an intentional importation for commercial use or as a food resource, followed by an intentional or accidental release. The red swamp crayfish is now widely distributed throughout the central part of the state and is the only crayfish found south of the Tehachapis (Riegel, 1959). It has been taken regularly in the Delta (Hazel & Kelley, 1966), and in 1995 we found it at Shell Marsh east of Martinez. BDOC (1994) reports that it is fished commercially and recreationally in the Estuary for food and for scientific use, although Kimsey et al. (1982). reported only incidental take of this species for bait and sport. The red swamp crayfish prefers warmer water than does the signal crayfish, survives in stagnant water by using atmospheric oxygen, and tolerates salinities up to 30 ppt. It is frequently found in rice fields and sloughs with abundant emergent vegetation. It is regarded as a pest in rice fields and irrigation ditches because it eats young rice shoots and digs burrows two inches in diameter and as much as 40 inches deep into levees and banks (Riegel, 1959; Kimsey et al., 1982; Herbold et al., 1992), and Skinner (1962, p. 124) described it as "mechanically destructive to dikes and levees." At Coyote Hills Marsh in Alameda, a freshwater/brackish wetlands on the eastern shore of south San Francisco Bay, red swamp crayfish have been shown to reduce the abundance of sago pondweed, Potamogeton pectinatus and are preyed upon by raccoon, Procyon lotor. The reduction or elimination of submersed macrophytes by grazing crayfish may reduce marsh diversity and secondary production by eliminating habitat for epiphytic organisms, and on the other hand may benefit vector control efforts by reducing larval mosquito habitat (Feminella & Resh, 1989). Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould, 1841) HARRIS MUD CRAB Rhithropanopeus is native to the northwest Atlantic from New Brunswick to Florida and from Mississippi to Vera Cruz, Mexico, in upper estuarine areas in fresh and brackish water. It was introduced to Europe, presumably among ship fouling, by 1874, and wascollected in the Panama Canal in 1969. The first records of Rhithropanopeus from the Pacific are specimens collected from Lake Merritt, Oakland in 1937. It was subsequently collected from Oregon in Coos Bay in 1950, in Netarts Bay in 1976, and in Yaquina Bay and the Umpqua River in 1978 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 697).

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In the Atlantic Rhithropanopeus is commonly found in oyster beds (Ryan, 1956; Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973), and it may have been introduced to San Francisco Bay with shipments of the Atlantic oyster Crassostrea virginica, which was still being imported from the Atlantic in small quantities in the 1930s. It could also have been introduced via ship fouling or ballast water. Though Rhithropanopeus has apparently been absent from Lake Merritt since at least the 1960s, we have found it common in similar habitat among masses of the tubes of the Australian serpulid worm Ficopomatus enigmatica in the Petaluma River at Petaluma, and on the shore under rocks at low tide in Carquinez Strait (associated with the native shorecrab Hemigrapsus oregonensis). It is reported as present to abundant from San Pablo Bay to the Delta, is regularly collected at the Central Valley Project pumps at Tracy in the south Delta (S. Siegfried, pers. comm., 1994), and has been found in the Delta-Mendota Canal (Carlton, 1979a). It has recently been collected in the upper parts of sloughs in the far South Bay, sympatric with juveniles of the recently introduced catadromous mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis (K. Halat, pers. comm., 1995). Rhithropanopeus' planktonic larvae are caught in Suisun Bay and to a much lesser extent in San Pablo Bay, and the abundance of these larvae is inversely correlated with high outflows during the summer (Herbold et al., 1992). Jones (1940) suggested that Hemigrapsus would be likely to outcompete Rhithropanopeus where their distributions overlap in San Francisco Bay, and Jordan (1989) found that the distribution of Rhithropanopeus is restricted by Hemigrapsus in Coos Bay, Oregon. In the Delta, Rhithropanopeus is eaten by white sturgeon, white catfish and striped bass (Stevens, 1966; Turner, 1966a; Thomas, 1967; McKechnie & Fenner, 1971).

ARTHROPODA: INSECTA Anisolabis maritima (Gene, 1832) MARITIME EARWIG This predaceous maritime earwig is native to the North Atlantic region and has been reported from Japan, Formosa and New Zealand. It was first collected in the San Francisco Estuary in 1935, where it has been found from San Pablo Bay to Carquinez Strait but not along the ocean coast in this area (Langston, 1974). It was also reported from Nanaimo in British Columbia (in 1920), and from Laguna Beach (1921) and Costa Mesa (1944) in southern California, but there are no subsequent records from these areas (Carlton, 1979a, p. 702). Reports of this insectotherwise known only from the seashore, typically near the high-tide levelfrom shipments of dahlias and crysanthemums arriving in southern California probably refer to another species. It may have been transported to the Pacific coast in solid ballast in the late 19th or early 20th century, and remained unrecognized for some years.

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Neochetina bruchi Hustache and Neochetina eichhorniae Warner In an effort to control water hyacinth, Eichhornia crassipes, the U. S. Department of Agriculture introduced into Florida two weevils from Argentina, Neochetina eichhorniae (in 1972) and N. bruchi (in 1974). Both weevils were subsequently established in Louisiana and Texas, and have been introduced to many other parts of the world (N. eichhorniae to Zambia (1971), Zimbabwe (1971), South Africa (1974), Australia (1975), Fiji (1977), Sudan (1978), Indonesia (1979), Thailand (1979), Egypt (1980), Myanmar (1980), Solomon Islands (1982), India (1983), Malaysia (1983), Vietnam (1985), Papua New Guinea (1985), Sri Lanka (1988) and Honduras (1990); and N. bruchi to Panama (1977), Sudan (1979), India (1984), South Africa (1989), Australia (1990) and Honduras (1990)) (Julien, 1992). The California Department of Boating and Waterways and the USDA, responding to a build-up of water hyacinth, released N. bruchi into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta beginning in July 1982, and N. eichhorniae in 1982 or 1983. Although both weevils have become established in the Delta, there is no evidence that they have reduced water hyacinth there (Thomas & Anderson, 1983; L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994).

Trigonotylus uhleri Reuter The mirid bug Trigonotylus uhleri is native to the Atlantic coast of North America, where it is an herbivore specialist on cordgrass (Spartina spp.) commonly found on the smooth cordgrass S. alterniflora. It was first collected on the Pacific Coast by Curtis Daehler and Donald Strong in San Francisco Bay in 1993 (Daehler & Strong, 1995). In San Francisco Bay, where S. alterniflora was introduced from the Atlantic in the early 1970s, Trigonotylus achieves higher densities on S. alterniflora than is typically observed on the Atlantic Coast, exceeding 10 individuals per culm (about 3,000/m2). These high densities, however, appear to have little impact on the plant's vegetative growth, lateral spread, inflorescence or seed production. Trigonotylus is also found on the native Pacific cordgrass S. foliosa (Daehler & Strong, 1995). Trigonotylus seems likeliest to have been transported to the Pacific coast with cordgrass plants imported for erosion control or marsh restoration, possibly with the Spartina alterniflora introduced to San Francisco Bay, if that stock was imported as plants rather than seed.

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ENTOPROCTA Barentsia benedeni (Foettinger, 1887) SYNONYMS: Barentsia gracilis of Mariscal, 1965 See Carlton, 1979a for other synonyms. The distribution of this European entoproct in the northeastern Pacific is poorly known, as it has long been confused with the native Barentsia gracilis. B. benedeni has been recorded from San Francisco Bay since 1929 (as Ascopodaria gracilis, "Barentsia (=Pedicellina)", and Barentsia gracilis), at Lake Merritt, Palo Alto Yacht Harbor and Berkeley Yacht Harbor (Mariscal, 1965; Carlton, 1979a, p. 704). It was also collected in Australia in the 1940s (Wasson & Shepherd, 1995), from the Salton Sea in southern California in 1977 (Jebram & Everitt, 1982), from Coos Bay, Oregon since 1988 (Hewitt, 1993), and in the western Atlantic from Massachusetts in 1977-78 (Jebram & Everitt, 1982). Barentsia benedeni was probably introduced to San Francisco Bay in ship fouling, or possibly as fouling on oysters shipped from Japan, where it has been reported in Matsushima Bay (Toriumi, 1944). Barentsia does not have planktonic larvae and have not been reported from ballast water (e. g. Carlton & Geller, 1993), although transport of adults on floating debris in ballast tanks might be possible. Urnatella gracilis Leidy, 1851 Urnatella gracilis, the world's only freshwater entoproct, is native to North America from the northeastern and midwestern United States west to Texas and Oklahoma. It was first found in Europe in 1939 in Belgium, and later reported from a few sites eastward to western Russia, perhaps derived from a second introduction via the Black Sea (Lukacsovics & Pcsi, 1967). It has also been reported from India (redescribed as Urnatella indica), Uruguay, central Africa, and Japan (Eng, 1977; Emschermann, 1987) and in a Florida canal in 1977 (Hull et al., 1980). Urnatella was first found west of the Rocky Mountains in 1972-74 in the DeltaMendota irrigation canal in the San Joaquin Valley (Eng, 1977). The canal runs south from the Delta, and Urnatella colonies were observed locally encrusting the concrete side-lining at 64 km and southward from the Delta. In earth-lined reaches Urnatella was found encrusting the shells of the Asian clam Corbicula fluminea, pebbles and debris, and rarely attached to the Black Sea hydroid Cordylophora caspia. Unattached single entoproct stalks, an asexual dispersal stage, were occasionally found in bottom sediments throughout the concrete-lined reaches. Markmann (1986) indicated that Urnatella was collected in the Delta between 1982 and 1984. Emschermann (1987) reported that Urnatella produces heavily cuticularized segments that under disadvantageous conditions, such as in a low oxygen or low temperature environment, act as resting buds or hibernacula. The entoproct rarely reproduces sexually, but relies on asexual production of special propagation branches which, breaking off, serve as a free-living, creeping and floating migratory life stage. Since Urnatella frequently colonizes the shells of freshwater snails and bivalves (Lukacsovics & Pcsi, 1967; Eng, 1977; Hull et al., 1980) and the surface of some plants, such as cattails and reeds (Lukacsovics & Pcsi, 1967; Hull et al., 1980), it was likely transported to California with aquarium materials or ornamental plants.

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BRYOZOA Alcyonidium polyoum (Hassall, 1841) SYNONYMS: Alcyonidium mytili O'Donoghue, 1923 In California Alcyonidium polyoum has been reported from Tomales Bay (Osburn, 1953), from San Francisco Bay on shells of the introduced Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta (in 1951-52, Filice, 1959), and in Berkeley Yacht Harbor (Banta, 1963). We also observed it at Crown Beach in Alameda (in 1995) and on shells of the introduced Atlantic oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea in Foster City Lagoon (in 1992). In the Atlantic A. polyoum has been reported from northern Labrador and Nova Scotia to Chesapeake Bay, and from Brazil (Osburn, 1944). It has been collected on Ilyanassa shells in Delaware Bay oyster beds (Maurer & Watling, 1973) and in North Carolina oyster beds (Wells, 1961). Specimens also referred to A. polyoum have been recorded from cold boreal waters. In the Pacific Ocean these records are mainly from Puget Sound northward, including such locations as the offshore waters near Point Barrow, Alaska. It seems likely that two species are involved, and we consider the shallow, estuarine records in San Francisco and Tomales bays to represent an Atlantic bryozoan. Alcyonidium species have planktotrophic larvae, which have been found in ballast water after a 14-day transoceanic voyage (JTC unpublished). Alcyonidium species, including A. polyoum (as A. mytili), have also been reported from fouling on ships (WHOI, 1952). Thus this bryozoan could be either a ballast water introduction, or a late introduction with oyster shipments or ship fouling. Anguinella palmata van Beneden, 1845 AMBIGUOUS BRYOZOAN In 1993-95 we found an arborescent, silt-covered ctenostome bryozoan in San Francisco Bay which was tentatively identified as Anguinella palmata by William Banta. We collected it from underneath floating docks at several locations (Point San Pablo Yacht Harbor and Loch Lomond Yacht Harbor in San Pablo Bay; San Leandro Marina, Mission Rock, Coyote Point and Pete's Harbor in the South Bay), and intertidally on rocks on the east side of Bay Farm Island in the South Bay. A. palmata is an Atlantic species known from England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, from Massachusetts to Florida, Puerto Rico and Brazil, and has been found in salinities ranging from 13 to 32 ppt (Osburn, 1944; Prenant & Bobin, 1956). In 1953 Osburn reported the first collections of A. palmata from the Pacific, made by the Velero III in 1933-42, from Zorritos Light, Peru; Panama City, Panama; Isabel Island, Mexico; and Newport Harbor and Seal Beach, California. It has also been reported from New Zealand (Gordon, 1967). Anguinella palmata has been reported from ship hulls (WHOI, 1952), and was probably transported from the Atlantic in ship fouling. As it has lecithotrophic larvae, which spend but a brief time in the plankton, it is unlikely to have been introduced by ballast water.

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Bowerbankia gracilis Leidy, 1855 CREEPING BRYOZOAN SYNONYMS: (?) Bowerbankia gracilis of authors (in reference to certain Pacific coast estuarine populations); not (?) of Leidy, 1855 (author of gracilis, not O'Donoghue, 1926 as given in Soule et al., 1975) (?) Bowerbankia imbricata of authors (in reference to certain Pacific coast estuarine populations); not (?) of Adams, 1800 We tentatively treat here the cosmopolitan fouling bryozoan Bowerbankia gracilis as introduced. Occurring in the western Atlantic from Greenland to South America (Osburn & Soule, 1953) in salinities down to 10 ppt (Osburn, 1944), to which region it may be native, it has been reported from many other parts of the world including Hawaii, India, England and Saudi Arabia (Soule & Soule, 1977, 1985). A number of subspecies and varieties have been described and these may either represent a single variable species or some number of distinct species. For example, under the varietal names typica, caudata and aggregata, O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue (1923, 1926) reported B. gracilis from a number of British Columbia stations from the intertidal zone to 50 meters. Soule et al. (1980) report B. gracilis as occurring from Puget Sound to Baja California. Records north of central California, however, appear to be restricted to Puget Sound (a single collection of unreported date (Osburn & Soule, 1953) and Coos Bay (since 1970; JTC unpublished; Hewitt, 1993)). Osburn & Soule (1953) report it from collections (likely made in the 1940s) in Tomales Bay and Los Angeles Harbor; it remains abundant in Los Angeles and Monterey Harbors (Soule et al. 1980; Haderlie, 1969). Jebram & Everitt (1982) report a ctenostome as "Bowerbankia cf. gracilis" from the Salton Sea. Although Light (1941) while reporting on encrusting estuarine communities in central California did not mention Bowerbankia, Smith et al. (1954) found it "extremely abundant on pilings" in the same region (which, based on knowledge of Smith's usual sampling sites, probably refers to San Francisco Bay), and Banta (1963) recorded it specifically from San Francisco Bay. Light and his students may have overlooked this organism, but perhaps a more likely scenario is its introduction into Tomales Bay with oyster shipments after the collecting reported by Light in 1941 (or into some other less well examined bay with oysters or in ship fouling anytime from the 19th century onward), followed by introduction into San Francisco Bay (again, after the collecting reported by Light) via coastal shipping or coastwise transport of fisheries products (e. g. with bait, or oysters shucked at a bayside restaurant with the shells discarded in the Bay, or spoiled oysters or crabs (we found Bowerbankia on the shell of a live crab in Humboldt Bay) dumped in the Bay). Bowerbankia gracilis is common on oyster beds in the western Atlantic (Wells, 1961; Maurer & Watling, 1973) and has been reported from ships' hulls (WHOI, 1952). Introductions of B. gracilis may continue with fisheries products (Miller, 1969, found a Bowerbankia sp. on seaweed shipped with lobsters to San Francisco) and conceivably as small colonies on floating debris in ballast water. Its lecithotrophic larvae are only briefly planktonic, and thus not likely to be successfully transported in ballast water.

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Bugula "neritina (Linnaeus, 1758)" This conspicuous red-purple arborescent bryozoan has a broad global distribution in temperate, subtropical and tropical waters, including Japan, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, both coasts of Panama, Florida, North Carolina, the Mediterranean, and in the heated effluent from power plants in southern England where it was introduced before 1912 (Okada, 1929; Gordon, 1967; Ryland, 1971; Mook, 1976; Carlton, 1979a; Vail & Wass, 1981). Robertson (1905) and Osburn (1950) reported it as abundant and conspicuous in southern California with a northern limit in Monterey Bay, Carlton (1979a) reported its Pacific coast range as Panama to Monterey Bay, and Ricketts et al. (1985) reported it in fouling from Monterey south. However, its range appears to have recently expanded northward. Kozloff (1983) reported it in San Francisco Bay, stating that it was not native to the region, and we commonly observed it there in 1993 and 1994. It has also been found on the hull of a wooden ship in Humboldt Bay (Carlton & Hodder, 1995), in Coos Bay, Oregon (Hewitt, 1993) and in Friday Harbor, Washington (M. DiMarco-Temkin, pers. comm., 1994). Bugula neritina has been reported as a common member of fouling communities in harbors and bays, but has also been collected from offshore waters and open coast kelp beds on the Pacific coast. It seems likely that two or more species of red-purple Bugula are present, including both a native warm-water, open coast species and an introduced harbor fouling species. The origin of this species is unknown, but it was most likely transported to the northeastern Pacific in hull fouling Bugula neritina has been frequently collected from ships' hulls (WHOI, 1952; Millard, 1952; Ryland, 1970), and is highly tolerant of mercurybased anti-fouling compounds (Weiss, 1947). Less likely, it might have alternatively been introduced with the few shipments of Atlantic oysters made to southern California in the 19th century (Carlton, 1979a, p. 97), as it has been reported from oyster beds in the Atlantic (Wells, 1961). Transport in ballast water is unlikely, since Bugula neritina, in common with other Bugula species, has coronate larvae that typically spend less than 10 hours in the plankton before settling (Soule et al., 1980; Woollacott et al., 1989), though transport as tiny colonies attached to floating material in ballast tanks, or as colonies attached to the sides of ballast tanks, might be possible. Bugula stolonifera Ryland, 1960 SYNONYM: Bugula californica of Pacific coast authors in reference to certain harbor populations (see below) The history of this North Atlantic bryozoan remains to be worked out in San Francisco Bay. Soule et al. (1980) reported that "the Bugula californica reported as a fouling organism from ports such as San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Harbor has recently been recognized as B. stolonifera. Although very similar to B. californica, B. stolonifera is grayish and lacks the distinctive, whorled colony patterns." (Soule & Soule, 1977 (writing in 1975-1976) specifically do not list B. stolonifera for southern California stations.) Okamura (1984) reported B. stolonifera, identified by J. Soule, collected in 1982 from the Berkeley Marina. Bugula californica Robertson, 1905, remains a distinct species, apparently of more open marine conditions (Soule et al., 1980), and we thus take Robertson's (1905) report of B. californica from "Lands End, San Francisco Bay," which is

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located on the ocean side of San Francisco, to refer to B. californica rather than B. stolonifera. We tentatively take Soule et al. (1980; writing in 1978) as the first record of B. stolonifera from San Francisco Bay, pending the re-examination of museum collections. A bryozoan reported as B. californica was present in Newport Harbor on dock piles at least by the 1940s (Osburn, 1950), while Reish (1972) reported B. californica to be widespread through Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbors, Alamitos Bay, Marina del Rey, Huntington Harbor, and Newport Bay, based upon collections dating back to 1962. If Bugula stolonifera has not been present an unrecognized in San Francisco Bay for many decades, then it may have first become established in southern California harbors and entered the Bay region in the 1970s via coastal ship traffic. Bugula stolonifera appears to be native to the northwestern Atlantic and has been introduced to Europe and the Mediterranean (Ryland, 1971), Panama (Soule & Soule, 1977) and Saudi Arabia (Soule & Soule, 1985). Records of Bugula californica in estuarine fouling communities elsewhere in the world (such as Brazil, Hawaii, and Japan (Marcus, 1937; Soule & Soule, 1967; Mawatari, 1956) likely refer to Bugula stolonifera as well. Soule & Soule (1967), in reporting B. californica from the Hawaiian Islands, noted it was "common as a fouling organism on dock pilings and boat hulls (and) it could presumably be spread by boats or floating logs." Bugula californica in the Galapagos Islands may represent a mixture of both the native marine species and B. stolonifera. We regard B. stolonifera as a probable ship fouling introduction. As discussed under B. "neritina," Bugulas are unlikely candidates for introduction in ballast water. Conopeum tenuissimum (Canu, 1908) SYNONYMS: probably include Conopeum commensale of Filice, 1959 and of Aldrich, 1961 (north Bay estuarine stations) This very common western North Atlantic bryozoan occurs in fouling communities, on oyster shells, eelgrass, and many other estuarine substrates from Delaware Bay to the Gulf of Mexico (Dudley, 1973). It was first described as a Holocene subfossil from Argentina (Dudley, 1973) and has also been recorded from West Africa (Cook, 1968) and Sydney, Australia (Vail & Wass, 1981). On the Pacific coast Conopeum tenuissimum has been identified by Patricia Cook from San Francisco Bay (collected since 1951-52; Carlton, 1979a,b) and from Coos Bay, Oregon (collected since 1970; JTC, unpublished). Light's (1941) record of "Membranipora" as a summer invader of Lake Merritt, Oakland, could refer to either or both of C. tenuissimum and the cryptogenic species C. reticulum, as could the U. S. Navy's (1951) report of "Electra sp." on fouling panels at Mare Island in 1944-47 and at Port Chicago in 1945-47. We collected a Conopeum that we tentatively identify as tenuissimum on docks in the brackish northern part of San Francisco Bay in 1993-1994, where it was particularly conspicuous overgrowing masses of the introduced hydroid Garveia franciscana, and in scattered, small colonies on docks throughout the northern, central and southern parts of the Bay after the wet spring of 1995. Conopeum tenuissimum has planktotrophic larvae and thus might have been introduced in ballast water. Alternatively it could have been introduced in ship fouling or with Atlantic oysters (with which it occurs; Maurer & Watling, 1973), perhaps as early as the 19th century.

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Cryptosula pallasiana (Moll, 1803) This Atlantic bryozoan has been reported in the eastern Atlantic from Norway and Great Britain to Morocco and in the Mediterranean and Black Seas (Osburn, 1952; Ryland, 1971, 1974), in the western Atlantic from Nova Scotia to North Carolina (Osburn, 1952) and Florida (Winston, 1982), and has been introduced to Japan (Mawatari, 1963), New Zealand (Gordon, 1967) and Australia (Ryland, 1971; Vail & Wass, 1981). Osburn (1952) noted that it was not recorded by early Pacific coast bryozoan workers (except for a single questionable 1925 record from Homer, Alaska). Between 1943 and 1972 it was reported from various southern California bays, from offshore southern California waters to 35 meters depth, and from Mexican waters. It was collected from Monterey Bay in 1952, Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1970, Bodega Harbor in 1975 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 720) and Coos Bay, Oregon in 1988 (Hewitt, 1993). The U. S. Navy (1951) reported a Cryptosula sp. (presumably pallasiana) from Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco Bay in 1944-47, Banta (1963) reported C. pallasiana from the Berkeley Yacht Harbor in 1963 (believing it to be the first central California record), and we observed small colonies on shells and floating docks at a few scattered sites in San Francisco Bay in 1994-95. Cryptosula was likely introduced to the eastern Pacific either as hull fouling or with shipments of Atlantic oysters, with which it occurs on the Atlantic coast (Wells, 1961). It has lecithotrophic larvae that spend a very short time in the plankton, and thus is a poor candidate for interoceanic transport by ballast water. Schizoporella unicornis (Johnston, 1847) SYNONYMS: Schizopodrella unicornis This conspicuous, orange-colored, western Pacific encrusting bryozoan was not reported on the eastern Pacific coast by early bryozoan workers, as noted by Osburn (1952). It has been reported in various embayments and shore locations in Washington state since 1927, in California since 1938, in British Columbia since 1966 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 723), and in Coos Bay, Oregon since 1986 (JTC, unpublished). S. unicornis has also been reported from Baja California and the Galapagos, and from offshore sites in southern California, but as discussed by Carlton (1979a), these and some other southern California records may be properly referred to the Atlantic species S. errata, or to a third Schizoporella species. In San Francisco Bay Schizoporella unicornis was recorded from the Berkeley Yacht Harbor in 1963 (Banta, 1963), and we collected it from various locations in the Bay in 1970 and 1993-95. Though we never found it abundant, Kozloff (1983) described it as the most common encrusting bryozoan in the Bay. It is often found encrusting on shells and has been frequently reported as fouling on ship hulls (WHOI, 1952), and thus may have been introduced to the northeastern Pacific either with shipments of Japanese oysters (Crassostrea gigas)or as hull fouling. Like many other bryozoans, it has lecithotrophic larvae with a brief planktonic phase, and is unlikely to have been carried across the Pacific in ballast water.

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Victorella pavida Kent, 1870 This "cosmopolitan" bryozoan has been reported from many, widely-dispersed sites and from the bottoms of vessels. Reviewing its global distribution, Carlton (1979a) suggested that it was native to the Indian Ocean and introduced via hull fouling to Europe (first reported in the late 1860s), eastern North America (by 1920), Japan (by 1943) and eastern South America (by 1947). A 1955 record from the Salton Sea has now been recognized by Jebram & Everitt (1982) as representing a distinct species, Victorella pseudoarachnida. It was collected in Lake Merritt in San Francisco Bay in 1967, though relatively inconspicuous mats of Victorella could have been present for many years before they were noticed. Thus this introduction could have resulted from the importation of Japanese oysters (in the 1930s), from the importation of Atlantic oysters (from the 1870s to the 1930s), or from transport as hull fouling (it has been reported from the bottoms of boats; Osburn, 1944). Transport in ballast water is unlikely, as Victorella's lecithotrophic larvae are only briefly planktonic. Watersipora "subtorquata (d'Orbigny, 1852)" Since the 1960s two species of Watersipora have appeared in California where none were previously known. These species are distinguished from each other by the shape of the proximal border of the aperture, with the border curving into the aperture in W. arcuata (=nigra) and curving outward to form a sinus in W. "subtorquata." The identification of the latter species remains uncertain (the one or more species with a sinusoid aperture have been variously referred to W. subtorquata, subovoidea, cucullata, atrofusca, aterrima and edmundsoni) due to the variability in the characters used to distinguish sinusoid species and the unstable taxonomy of the genus (Gordon (1989), for example, referred to it as "a taxonomic 'can of worms'"). W. arcuata was collected in southern California embayments from San Diego to Santa Monica beginning in 1964 (although the first collection is reported in the literature as 1967; W. Banta, pers. comm., 1994). W."subtorquata" was first collected in southern California in 1963 (although the first clear report of its collection in the literature is 1989; W. Banta pers. comm., 1994), in Drakes Estero in 1984 (J. Goddard, pers. comm., 1995) and in Coos Bay, Oregon in 1990 (C. Hewitt, pers. comm., 1990) (where, however, we did not find it in 1995). We found W. "subtorquata" in San Francisco Bay in 1992, and in Bodega Harbor, Tomales Bay, Half Moon Bay, Moss Landing Harbor and Monterey Harbor in 1993-95. In San Francisco Bay it was common as flat circular colonies on docks and rocks in the South and Central bays and the southern part of San Pablo Bay, and growing in 10 cm thick "reefs" on docks near the mouth of San Francisco Bay in 1993 and 1994. After an unusually wet spring, we found only dead or dying colonies in San Francisco Bay in 1995. Watersipora specimens with a sinusoid aperture, belonging to one or more species, have been reported from many parts of the world. The native region of W. "subtorquata" is thus unknown, although its distribution and spread suggests the northwest Pacific as the likeliest origin, with populations introduced (if these are the same species) to American Samoa, Hawaii, the Galapagos Islands, western Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, the Carribean, Brazil, the Mediterranean, the Red and Arabian

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seas and the Atlantic coast of France. Watersipora species have coronate larvae which remain in the plankton for less than a day before settling (Mawatari, 1952; Wisely, 1958), and thus could not have been transported long distances as larvae in currents or in ballast water. Transport as fouling on ship hulls seems most likely, as Watersipora has been frequently found both in fouling and on ship bottoms (WHOI, 1952; Ryland, 1970), and is highly tolerant of copper-based anti-fouling compounds (Weiss, 1947; WHOI, 1952; Allen, 1953; Ryland, 1970). Zoobotryon verticillatum (Delle Chiaje, 1828) SYNONYMS: Zoobotryon pellucidum The origin of this subtropical ctenostome bryozoan is unknown. Alice Robertson (1905) reported it in Japan, Hawaii and in abundance in Madras Harbor, India, and noted that it occurred in abundance in San Diego Bay in the summer of 1905, where, "in water of 10 or 12 feet deep, it grew in luxuriant masses of a green tint, the whole resembling clumps of freshly cut hay" (Robertson, 1921). Such large colonial masses (to 1 m x 2 m) can still be found in San Diego and Mission bays, colonized by anemones and shading out and killing eelgrass (A. Sewell, pers. comm., 1995). Osburn (1940; cited in Osburn, 1953) described it as circumtropical, and added records from the Mediterranean, Bermuda, Florida, Puerto Rico, the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil. Soule et al. (1980) report its northeastern Pacific ranges as extending from San Diego to the Gulf of California and Central America, and "in recent years" in harbors north to Los Angeles. It has also been collected in New Zealand (Gordon, 1967) and Australia (Vail & Wass, 1981). Zoobotryon was collected in Redwood Creek in South San Francisco Bay in 1993, where it was abundant and producing active larvae (K. Wasson, pers. comm.). It is a common hull fouling organism in warm waters (WHOI, 1952; Ryland, 1970), which was its likely mechanism of introduction to California.

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CHORDATA: TUNICATA Ascidia sp. This introduced tunicate of unknown origin has been collected off and on since 1983 in harbors from San Diego to Los Angeles (G. Lambert, pers. comm., 1995), and in 1993-94 we found it (identified by G. Lambert), sometimes very abundant in fouling on floating docks, from Richmond to San Leandro on the east shore and from Redwood Creek to Pier 39 on the west shore of San Francisco Bay. We know of only one earlier record of an Ascidia species in San Francisco Bay, which was collected at Tiburon and possibly in the Berkeley Marina in 1981 (B. Okamura, pers. comm., 1995). The specimens, no longer extant, were identified at the time as the native species A. ceratodes. Ascidia species have been reported from ship fouling (Stubbings, 1961) which may have been the transport mechanism for this species. Alternatively, it may have arrived via ballast water, since some solitary ascidians have planktonic stages (from fertilized egg through tadpole) that last two weeks or more (as discussed below under Ciona intestinalis). In San Francisco Bay we sometimes found the amphipod Leucothoe sp., here considered to be introduced, living within the body cavity of this Ascidia. Botryllus schlosseri (Pallas, 1774) Botryllus aurantius Oka, 1927 (=Botrylloides violaceus) Botryllus sp. (large zooid) (=Botrylloides sp.) We consider at least three species of botryllid ascidians to be introduced into San Francisco Bay. All three are locally common to abundant members of Bay fouling communities, sometimes forming extensive gelatinous masses. The genus- and specieslevel systematics of the common, harbor-dwelling, fouling botryllids are matters of considerable complexity (Carlton, 1979a; Monniot & Monniot, 1987; Monniot, 1988) and the species-level identification of all three of the species treated here remains uncertain or unknown. Most American literature refers the common fouling species to two genera, Botryllus and Botrylloides. Monniot & Monniot (1987) and Monniot (1988) have, however, discussed the purported distinctions between these two genera and offer compelling reasons why Botrylloides should be synonymized under Botryllus, an approach we follow here. A common botryllid of San Francisco Bay with star-shaped or oval clusters of zooids we tentatively refer to as Botryllus schlosseri, a common North Atlantic species which Van Name (1945) regarded as native to Europe and introduced to the western Atlantic in ship fouling. This species has up to about 20 functional zooids arranged in stellate clusters around a central, common exhalant opening. Morphologically, it is virtually identical to the B. schlosseri of Long Island Sound (JTC pers. obs.; C. Hewitt, pers. comm., 1992). A second botryllid found in San Francisco Bay, also with star-shaped or oval clusters of zooids, keys out to Botryllus tuberatus Ritter & Forsyth, 1917 (S. Cohen, pers. comm., 1994). Van Name (1945) reported this species, described from Santa Barbara, to be confined to southern California. Abbott & Newberry (1980) reported its occurrence from Bodega Bay to San Diego and in Japan, in the Philippines, on the Asian mainland, and on several Pacific islands. We consider this botryllid, at least in central California, to be cryptogenic.

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Yet another botryllid, also very common in San Francisco Bay, has dozens of small zooids arranged in meandering (serpentine) chains and appears identical to Coos Bay material that Hewitt (1993) referred to the Japanese native Botrylloides violaceus Oka, 1927. Boyd et al. (1990) also identified Monterey Bay material as Botrylloides violaceus. Monniot (1988, p. 169) has noted that the name "violaceus" for a botryllid is preoccupied at least twice before Oka's usage, and that the proper name for this species is Botryllus aurantius. This species is illustrated in Morris et al. (1980), figure 12.30, based upon a slide taken by JTC ("J. Carlson") at Nahcotta, Willapa Bay, Washington. Finally, we collected another botryllid with chain zooids in San Francisco Bay in 1993 and 1994, but with each zooid typically twice the size of those in B. aurantius. This appears to be a fourth species (S. Cohen, pers. comm., 1993). It is illustrated in Kozloff (1983; plate 29, as Botrylloides) based upon material from San Francisco Bay. The failure of Van Name (1945) to record any botryllid sea squirt north of southern California, and its absence from all faunal accounts of the marine invertebrate biota of the Pacific coast from Monterey Bay north until the mid-1940s, suggests that these now extraordinarily abundant sea squirts have been introduced. Botryllus schlosseri was first recorded in San Francisco Bay from fouling panels at the Mare Island and Hunters Point naval bases in 1944-1947 (US Navy, 1951), although it evidently remained sufficiently rare or localized in the Bay to escape the attention of Smith et al. (1954). Botryllus aurantius was present in San Francisco Bay by at least 1973 (JTC, pers. obs.). Botryllus sp. ("large zooid") was photographed at the Berkeley Marina by Eugene Kozloff in the late 1970s or early 1980s (Kozloff, 1983, plate 29; E. Kozloff, pers. comm., 1994). Botryllus species have frequently been reported from ship fouling (WHOI, 1952). Botryllus schlosseri was introduced to the Bay either with Atlantic oysters or on ship fouling. Botryllus aurantius may have been introduced with Japanese oysters or on ship fouling (although the latter would not have been a likely mechanism from Japan until after World War II, further suggesting a post-1940s arrival if with ships). Botryllus sp. may also have entered with Japanese oysters or ship-fouling. No similar large-zooid botryllid is known from the American Atlantic coast. The distribution of all three of these species remains to be worked out on the Pacific coast. Tunicates similar to Botryllus schlosseri are known from at least Monterey Bay to British Columbia (Boyd et al. 1990; Carlton, 1979a; Hewitt, 1993; JTC, pers. obs.). Tunicates similar to Botryllus aurantius are known from Monterey Bay to British Columbia (Boyd et al., 1990; Carlton, 1979a; JTC, pers. obs.) and may now be present in southern California as well (Carlton, 1979a). The large-zooid Botryllus is at present known only from San Francisco Bay and Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County.

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Ciona intestinalis (Linnaeus, 1767) SEA VASE Ciona intestinalis is one of the most widely distributed ascidians in the world, recorded from the tropics to the subarctic. It was first described from Europe and appears to be native to one or both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean. It was reported in the northeastern Pacific at San Diego in 1897, followed decades later by collections in San Francisco Bay in 1932, Newport Bay in 1934, several other southern California bays from the 1950s to the 1970s, and Monterey Harbor in 1974 (Carlton, 1979a, p. 732). There are intermittent records from Vancouver Island, British Columbia in 1908-09, the 1930s (Carlton, 1979a) and in recent years (G. Lambert, pers. comm., 1995). As discussed by Carlton (1979a), there are no records of C. intestinalis from Oregon, and the few Washington and Alaska records are doubtful. Ciona intestinalis is a common fouler of ships (WHOI, 1952; Stubbings (1961) provides a photograph of a ship in drydock whose hull is completely covered by C. intestinalis), which was probably the initial means of transport to the Pacific coast. Later introductions could have occurred via ballast water: although the ascidian larval phase, known as a tadpole, typically lasts only a few hours, some solitary ascidians including Ciona intestinalis have total planktonic phases (from release of gametes through settlement of tadpole) that can last two weeks or more. Carlton & Geller (1993) found ascidian tadpole larvae in the ballast water of five Japanese wood chip carriers that had completed transpacific voyages of 13 to 16 days, some of which were reared to Ciona sp. (JTC, unpublished). Carlton & Geller (1993) also found metamorphosed ascidians settled on floating wood chips in their ballast water samples. In San Francisco Bay we have found the amphipod Leucothoe sp., here considered to be introduced, living within the body cavity of Ciona. Ciona savignyi Herdman, 1882 In our survey of San Francisco Bay fouling in 1993-94 we found both Ciona savignyi (identified by G. Lambert) and C. intestinalis, the former distinguished from the latter by the presence of flecks of white or yellow pigment in the body wall and the absence of any red pigment at the end of the vas deferens. Like Ciona intestinalis, C. savignyi was likely transported to San Francisco Bay as ship fouling or in ballast water. It has been collected from Long Beach and other southern California marinas by C. Lambert since 1986, when it already was abundant, and is now found from San Diego to Santa Barbara. It is probably native to Japan (G. Lambert, pers. comm., 1995). Molgula manhattensis (DeKay, 1843) This tunicate occurs on both sides of the North Atlantic Ocean, from Maine to Louisiana (Van Name, 1945) and from northern Norway to Portugal (Millar, 1966). Van Name (1945) reported it as the commonest solitary tunicate on the coast between Massachusetts and Chesapeake Bay. It was first recorded in the Pacific from Tomales Bay in 1949, was "widespread in San Francisco Bay in the 1950s," and collected in Coos Bay, Oregon in 1974, and in Bodega Bay (Abbott & Newberry, 1980). As noted by Carlton (1979a), there is also a questionable record from San Felipe in the Gulf of

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Mexico. It has also been introduced to Europe from the White Sea to the Adriatic Sea, northwestern Africa, Japan and Australia (Abbott & Newberry, 1980). In San Francisco Bay, Molgula has been collected from the South Bay, along the eastern shore of the Central Bay, in San Pablo Bay and upstream to Martinez and Grizzly Bay, at concentrations of up to 100-2,400/square meter (Hopkins, 1968; Markmann, 1986). Ganssle (1966) reported it (as M. verrucifera) in 1963-64 as "so abundant in San Pablo Bay bottom tows that it was impossible to haul the trawl aboard by hand." It is apparently the most low-salinity-tolerant tunicate in the Bay: it ranges further upstream than the others and was virtually the only tunicate we collected in the Bay in the summer of 1995 following an unusually wet spring. It is also reputed to be highly tolerant of municipal and industrial pollution (Van Name, 1945; Carlton, 1979a; Abbott & Newberry, 1980). Molgula could have been transported to central California in ship fouling (from which it has been frequently reported; WHOI, 1952), with oyster shipments (Wells (1961) and Maurer & Watling (1973) reported Molgula manhattensis from Atlantic oyster beds, and we have often found it attached to shells dredged from the bottom of San Francisco Bay; eastern oysters (Crassotrea virginica) were being planted in both Tomales and San Francisco bays in the 1940s), or, as discussed above under Ciona intestinalis, in ballast water. Styela clava Herdman, 1881 SYNONYMS: Styela barnharti Styela clava is native to the western Pacific from the Sea of Okhotsk south to Shanghai, and though present in California since at least the 1930s was not recognized as the Asian species until the 1970s. It was collected at Newport Bay in 1932-33, in Elkhorn Slough (a single small specimen) in 1935, in San Francisco Bay in 1949, in Mission Bay in 1959, in Monterey Harbor in 1961, in several bays from San Diego to Morro Bay in the early 1970s, in Coos Bay, Oregon in 1993-94 (R. Emlet, A. Moran, pers. comm.), and in 1994-95 at a marina north of Nanaimo, British Columbia, but not at other sites on the eastern shore of Vancouver Island (G. Lambert, pers. comm., 1995). It has also been introduced to northwestern Europe, northeastern United States and Australia (Abbott & Newberry, 1980). Styela clava is a common fouling organism in harbors and may have been transported to the Pacific coast as ship fouling. However, since it has also been reported from fouling associations in Japanese oyster farms (Carlton, 1979a) and Japanese oysters (Crassostrea gigas) were planted in Elkhorn Slough from 1929-1934 (Bonnot, 1935b), it could have crossed the ocean with oyster shipments and been transported to Newport Bay with coastal shipping. As noted above under Ciona intestinalis, it could also have been introduced in ballast water. Styela clava is harvested and eaten in southern Korea, where it is called "mideuduck." In Japan it has been blamed for an asthmatic condition in oyster shuckers, apparently caused by an allergenic reaction when Styela-fouled oysters are hammered open in poorly-ventilated work areas. (Abbott & Newberry, 1980).

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VERTEBRATES
FISH Acanthogobius flavimanus (Temminck & Schlegel, 1845) [GOBIIDAE] YELLOWFIN GOBY, MAHAZE The yellowfin goby is native to Japan, South Korea and China where it ranges from marine into fresh water near sea level (Brittan et al., 1963; Haaker, 1979). It is reportedly catadromous in Japan, moving downstream onto saline mudflats to spawn (Herbold & Moyle 1989). The first yellowfin goby in California was collected in Jan. 1963 in a midwater trawl in the San Joaquin River off Prisoners Point, Venice Island. The fish measured 155 mm total length, and was estimated to be entering its second year (Brittan et al., 1963). Brittan et al. (1963) suggested that the goby was transported across the Pacific in the fouled seawater system of a ship, and Haaker (1979) suggested the possibility of transport as eggs laid on fouling organisms on ships' hulls. Eschmeyer et al. (1983) proposed transport in ballast water or with live seed oysters (presumably as eggs). However, except for occasional experimental plants, Japanese oysters have not been planted in San Francisco Bay since the 1930s (Carlton, 1979a). The goby was widespread throughout the Bay and Delta area by 1966 (Brittan et al., 1970) and is now well established in central and southern California (Eschmeyer et al., 1983). Common throughout the Bay and Delta, it has been collected from: lagoons around the Bay such as Foster City Lagoon, Berkeley Aquatic Park and Lake Merritt, and the salt ponds at Alviso; the Delta north to the Sacramento Ship Channel almost to the Port of Sacramento, and south to the Tracy Pumping Plant and the Stockton Deepwater Channel; the Delta-Mendota Canal at Newman, and the San Luis Reservoir in Merced County; and Contra Loma Reservoir in Contra Costa County (Brittan et al., 1970; McGinnis, 1984; ANC & JTC, pers. obs.). It was reported from Elkhorn Slough (Kukowski, 1972) and Tomales Bay and Estero Americano (Miller & Lea, 1976), and one specimen was collected from Bolinas Lagoon (Brittan et al., 1970). McGinnis (1984) reported that it was expanding its range in central coastal California. In southern California the yellowfin goby was photographed in Los Angeles Harbor on Sept. 22, 1977 and collected from Long Beach Harbor on Mar. 29, 1978. It has also been collected from Upper Newport Bay and the San Gabriel River (Haaker, 1979), and south as far as San Diego and perhaps into Mexico (Courtenay et al., 1986). The largest specimen reported in California, with a total length of 234 mm, was taken from Berkeley Aquatic Park (Brittan et al., 1970). The goby has also been introduced to Sydney Harbor, Australia (Miller & Lea, 1976). The goby is considered a delicacy in Japan (Eschmeyer et al., 1983), but in the Bay Area it is known to be used only for bait, primarily for striped bass. It supports a commercial trap fishery, and individual anglers catch it by hook-and-line.

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Alosa sapidissima (Wilson, 1811) [CLUPEIDAE] AMERICAN SHAD, ATLANTIC SHAD SYNONYMS: Clupea sapidissima Shad are native to the Atlantic coast from Labrador to Florida (Page & Burr, 1991). They were the first fish successfully introduced into California. In June 1871, about 10,000 Hudson River shad fry, which had been carried across the country in four 8-gallon milk cans by Seth Green of the California Fish Commission, were planted in the Sacramento River at Tehama (Lampman, 1946). A second shipment was lost in June 1873 when a railroad bridge over Nebraska's Elkhorn River collapsed and the aquarium car was destroyed. A third shipment of 35,000 fry was successfully planted on July 1873. The U. S. Fish Commission made several other shipments from 1876 to 1881, with all the fry, totaling 829,000, planted in the Sacramento River at Tehama (Skinner, 1962; Stevens, 1972; Nidever, 1916, and Shebley, 1917, report the total as 619,000). A few mature shad were taken from San Francisco Bay by 1873, and shad were found in the Columbia River by 1876. (Nidever, 1916; Shebley, 1917). The population spread rapidly to other estuaries from Baja California to Alaska and as far away as Kamchatka, through a combination of ocean migration and intentional transplants (Herbold et al., 1992). Several researchers have suggested that shad and striped bass did well in the Delta watershed in the late 1800s because their drifting eggs were not smothered by sediment from gold mining operations, as presumably were the sinking or attached eggs of native fish; and because they spawned in the main river channels while the native salmonids spawned in smaller tributary streams that were more extensively disrupted by mining activities (Herbold et al., 1992; Blount, 1994). In any event by 1874 shad were numerous enough to support a small commercial harvest, and by 1880 the "catch had to be curtailed to keep from glutting the market" (Skinner, 1962). Between 1900 and 1945 the catch was frequently over a million pounds, peaking at 5.7 million pounds in 1917 (Skinner, 1962; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). By 1953, however, Roedel described the shad as a minor commercial species taken with gill and trammel nets with Pittsburg accounting for most of the landings, which totaled about 0.4-1.3 million pounds annually during the 1950s (Skinner, 1962). It is unclear, however, whether the reduced catch was due to a declining stock or a weak market. Most of the sport fishing at that time was done with dipnets, and was referred to as the "bump net" fishery. The commercial fishery was eliminated in 1957 when the California legislature banned gillnet fishing within the Golden Gate to avoid competition with sportfishing. In the early decades of the fishery virtually all of the shad were sold in local fresh markets. Then for a while after 1912 most of the fish were salted and exported to China (Nidever, 1916). By the 1950s most of the meat was again sold fresh, though the main value of the fishery was in the roe, which was salted, canned or sold fresh (Roedel, 1953). Today, spawning runs are found on the Sacramento, Feather, Yuba, American, Mokelumne, Stanislaus and San Joaquin rivers in the Delta watershed, and in the Russian, Eel and Klamath rivers in northern California. There are also shad in Millerton Lake in Fresno County, San Luis Reservoir in Merced County, and in other waters of the Central Valley irrigation system (McGinnis, 1984). Stevens (1972) reported "crude" estimates of over 750,000 shad running on the Sacramento River based on trap data,

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and between 2 and 4 million fish based on past commercial catch records. Herbold et al. (1992) reported estimates of 3.04 million fish in 1976 and 2.79 million in 1977 on the Sacramento River, with populations probably 2-3 times as large early in the century. Emmett et al. (1991) estimated the combined run in all Delta tributaries at 0.7-4.0 million shad per year. Studies have shown adult shad to be wide-ranging travelers, with some individuals caught 3,000 km from the tagging site (Emmett et al., 1991), but little is known of their life in the Pacific Ocean. The males usually mature in three years and the females in four. The mature fish migrate upstream between February and June, with the peak migration occurring in March or April. Before the construction of the Red Bluff Dam in 1967, some shad traveled more than 300 miles up the Sacramento River (Nidever, 1916; Smith & Kato, 1979). Most spawning takes place between April and June, with temperatures generally between 14 and 24C, although spawn survival is poor at the higher temperatures. On the Pacific coast most adults die after spawning, which may be related to high water temperatures (Stevens, 1972; Moyle, 1976a; Emmett et al., 1991). Moyle (1976a) reports that spawning females release 30,000-300,000 eggs (on the Atlantic coast, shad are reported as spawning 116,000 to 4,680,000 eggs (Skinner, 1962)). The eggs can tolerate 7.5-15 ppt salinity depending on temperature, with optimal temperatures of 16-27C., and hatch in 3-6 days (Emmett et al., 1991). Juveniles are found in abundance in the Delta in late summer and fall, with most moving downstream into brackish water by the winter (Skinner, 1962; Moyle, 1976a). Young shad are reported to feed on zooplankton, primarily cladocerans and copepods, with adults in the Delta feeding on Neomysis mercedis, along with cladocerans, copepods and amphipods, and an occasional clam or larval fish. The adults cease feeding once they enter the main rivers (Stevens, 1972; Moyle, 1976a). The stomachs of coastal shad were found to contain anchovies and euphausids (Skinner, 1962). Juvenile shad are prey for salmonids, striped bass, other fish, birds and harbor seals (Emmett et al., 1991). Curtis (1942) stated that "no detrimental effects are reported for this fish...It seems to be possible to point to this species as the one case which has caused no complaint from any quarter. It has apparently found an ecological niche which was not only completely unoccupied but also large enough to accommodate an enormous population." Emmett et al. (1991) concluded that the introduction of shad "does not appear to have displaced natives, but competition may occur."

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Ameiurus catus (Linnaeus, 1758) [ICTALURIDAE] WHITE CATFISH, SCHUYLKILL CAT, FORKED-TAIL CATFISH, COMMON CATFISH SYNONYMS: Ictalurus catus White catfish are native to coastal streams from New York to Mississippi (Page & Burr, 1991). In 1874 Livingston Stone of the U. S. Fish Commission planted 54 (or 56) large white catfish from the Raritan River, New Jersey (along with 18 unidentified catfish from the Elkhorn River in Nebraska) in the San Joaquin River near Stockton (Smith, 1896; Shebley, 1917). In 1875, the California Fish Commission reported that these fish had grown rapidly and spawned, and predicted that they would be numerous enough to support a commercial fishery by the following year. By 1877 the Commissioners reported that the descendants "already furnish an important addition to the fish food supply of the city of Sacramento" and had 8,400 of them distributed to water bodies in 13 counties. In 1879, the Commissioners reported that white catfish had increased to the millions and furnished "an immense supply of food," and they had 39,000 of them distributed to 22 counties (Smith, 1896). By 1900 the fishery was large enough to ship catfish to Mississippi (Cohen, 1993). The commercial fishery was abolished in 1953 when the catfish population appeared to be overfished (Miller, 1966a; Borgeson & McCammon, 1967). The white catfish occurs in San Diego County and possibly other parts of southern California, and in Clear Lake, and is common in warm water lakes and slow moving areas of large rivers in the Central Valley (Curtis, 1949; McGinnis, 1984). It is said to be the most popular warmwater sportfish in California (Herbold & Moyle 1989), with the angling effort in the Delta in 1962-1963 estimated at almost 450,000 angler days (Miller, 1966a). It is the most abundant species of catfish in the Delta, accounting for 97% of 26,000 catfish collected in the Delta in 1963-1964. Young white catfish were taken mainly in channels in the southern and eastern Delta; adults were most abundant in dead-end sloughs, flooded islands, and the San Joaquin River below Stockton (Turner, 1966a). The white catfish also occurs downstream to Suisun Bay in salinities of 8 ppt (Ganssle, 1966; Herbold & Moyle 1989). White catfish collected from Clear Lake in 1943 had eaten hitch, sculpin, bluegill, tule perch, black crappie, frogs, insects, clams, and the remains of carp and coot (Miller, 1966a). The stomachs of white catfish collected in 1953-1954 from the Delta contained Corophium, American shad, plant and animal debris, unidentified fish, insects, clams, the crayfish Pacifastacus, and Neomysis (Borgeson & McCammon, 1967). The stomachs of catfish collected in 1963-1964 from the Delta contained several introduced fish and invertebrates (threadfin shad, American shad, striped bass, bluegill, Corbicula fluminea, Rithropanopeus harrisii) and other interesting food items (terrestrial slugs, earthworms, small birds and mammals, a lizard, a pair of coot feet) (Turner, 1966a). Curtis (1942) described the white catfish and the brown bullhead as "scavengers and to some extent predators upon the eggs and young of many other fish." He and Smith (1896) noted that some believed them responsible for the decline in Sacramento perch (which others have blamed on introduced striped bass, black bass or sunfish), and that they inhibit trout populations in high mountain waters. BDOC (1994) noted that white catfish can destroy the spawning sites of native fish by preying on eggs, larvae and juveniles.

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Ameiurus melas (Rafinesque, 1820) [ICTALURIDAE] BLACK BULLHEAD Synonyms: Ictalurus melas Black bullhead originally ranged from southern Saskatchewan and Montana to the upper tributaries of the St. Lawrence River and Hudson Bay, and south to Texas, northern Mexico and Alabama (Page & Burr, 1991). They were probably introduced to California along with several other species of catfish in 1874 (Miller, 1966c; Moyle, 1976b). They are present in most major rivers and in some low and middle elevation reservoirs in California, often in shallow and silty water, including the Colorado, Kern and Kings rivers (Curtis, 1949; Miller, 1966c; McGinnis, 1984), and are reported as common in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). In 1963-1964 only 100 out of 26,000 catfish (0.4%) collected in the Delta were black bullhead, with most of them taken from the quiet waters of dead-end sloughs in the eastern and southwestern Delta (Turner, 1966a); one was collected downstream in Honker Bay (Ganssle, 1966). Black bullhead are exceptionally tolerant of high water temperatures, low oxygen and high carbon dioxide levels. They eat insects, crustaceans, worms, mollusks, fish eggs, fish and plants (Miller, 1966c; McGinnis, 1984). Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819) [ICTALURIDAE] YELLOW BULLHEAD Synonyms: Ictalurus natalis Yellow bullhead originally ranged from North Dakota to the St. Lawrence River drainages and south to eastern Oklahoma, Texas and northern Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). Neale (1915) and Moyle (1976b) reported them introduced into California in 1874, although Miller (1966d) reported them introduced to the Colorado river "before 1942" but absent elsewhere in California. They are now reported as common in the Colorado River and rare in warm, clear, low elevation waters elsewhere in California and in the Delta (McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle 1989). The yellow bullhead is basically a stream dweller, and feeds on fish and crayfish more than do other bullheads (McGinnis, 1984).

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Ameirus nebulosus (Lesueur, 1819) [ICTALURIDAE] BROWN BULLHEAD, COMMON BULLHEAD, HORNED POUT, HORNPOUT, SQUARE-TAIL CATFISH, BULLHEAD CATFISH Synonyms: Ictalurus nebulosus Brown bullhead originally ranged from southern Saskatchewan, the Great lakes, Hudson Bay and Nova Scotia south to Louisiana and Florida (Page & Burr, 1991), and have been introduced widely in western North America (Emig, 1966e). In 1874 Livingston Stone of the U. S. Fish Commission planted 70 brown bullhead from Lake Champlain, Vermont in ponds and sloughs near Sacramento (Smith, 1896; Shebley, 1917). In 1875 the California Fish Commissioners reported that these fish had become so abundant that the population could not be exhausted by fishing, and they had nearly a thousand of them caught and transplanted to other waters (Smith, 1896). Within a few years they had spread throughout the Delta (Emig, 1966e). In 1963-1964, only 89 out of 26,000 catfish (0.3%) collected from the Delta were brown bullhead, with most of them taken from the quiet waters of dead-end sloughs in the southwestern and eastern Delta (Turner, 1966a); one was collected downstream in Grizzly Bay (Ganssle, 1966). Today brown bullhead are found in warm water habitats throughout California (Emig, 1966e; McGinnis, 1984), and are reported as common in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle 1989). Pat O'Brien of CDFG reports that 2 to 3 high elevation lakes in California are taken over each year by illegally planted brown bullhead and golden shiner. Curtis (1942) described this catfish and the white catfish as "scavengers and to some extent predators upon the eggs and young of many other fish." He noted that some believed them responsible for the decline in Sacramento perch (which others have blamed on introduced striped bass, black bass or sunfish), and that they inhibit trout populations in high mountain waters.

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Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758) [CYPRINIDAE] GOLDFISH The goldfish, native to China, was the first exotic fish to be introduced into North America, some time in the late 1600s. It has been collected in the wild from every state except Alaska, and is clearly established in 27 states and 2 Canadian provinces (Courtenay et al., 1986). It was introduced to California waters some time after 1900, probably as a released pet (Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984). Goldfish may be found in any low or medium elevation habitat in California, and some small lakes, such as Lake Temescal, Alameda County, have been completely overrun by goldfish (McGinnis, 1984). Goldfish are common in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle 1989), where they made up 420 of 12,400 cyprinids (3%) collected in 1963-1964. These were mainly taken in Indian Slough and at Mossdale on the San Joaquin River (Turner, 1966c), but they have been occasionally caught downstream to Honker Bay (Ganssle, 1966). Most of the goldfish in the Delta migrate upriver to fresher water to breed (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Goldfish grow to 40 cm, and females may lay up to 15,000 eggs per year. They primarily feed on plankton and bottom organic debris, and thus compete for food with fry of other species (McGinnis, 1984). Cyprinus carpio Linnaeus, 1758 [CYPRINIDAE] COMMON CARP Carp, native to Eurasia, were first introduced into North America in the Hudson River in 1831 (Courtenay et al., 1986). In 1872 Julius Popp imported 5 carp from Holstein, Germany and, stocking them in his pond in Sonoma County, "did a thriving business for a number of years, selling their progeny for purposes of propagation." In 1877 the California Fish Commission traded trout eggs for 88 young carp from the Japanese government, and began its own carp rearing program. In 1879 the U. S. Fish Commission shipped 298 carp to California, planting 60 in Sutterville Lake and the rest in a private pond in Alameda County to be "at the disposal of the State Commission" (Smith, 1896). These fish may have come from a carp rearing program in Washington, D. C. which, beginning with 338 carp from Germany in 1877 and accompanied by a national ad campaign, supplied carp to government agencies throughout the country (see McGinnis, 1984, for a description of "carp fever"). In 1882 the U. S. Fish Commission began delivering carp to private applicants, and in 1883 the California Fish Commission purchased 600 German carp from J. V. Shebley, a fish-culturalist in Nevada County, and planted them in the Sacramento River near Sacramento (Shebley, 1917; McGinnis, 1984; Herbold et al., 1992). By the early 20th century, carp were reported from "nearly all public and private waters of the state" (Shebley, 1917). Today they are present in most freshwater habitats in California other than the Klamath River drainage (McGinnis, 1984), and are abundant in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle 1989) where they are found down into brackish water in Suisun Bay, being tolerant of salinities up to 4.5 ppt (eggs) or 6 ppt (young fish) (Ganssle, 1966; Burns, 1966b). Of 12,400 cyprinids collected in the Delta in 1963-1964, 84 percent were carp (Turner, 1966c). Most of the Delta carp migrate upriver to fresher

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water to breed (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). A large female may lay over 2,000,000 eggs per year. The largest carp reported from California weighed 26.3 kg (McGinnis, 1984). Carp feed by "grubbing" in bottom sediments in shallow water, which digs up the bottom, destroys aquatic plants, and muddies the water, rendering potentially productive areas unsuitable for use as spawning or nursery areas by other fish species (McGinnis, 1984). Smith (1896, citing Jordan and Gilbert, 1894) reported that the carp's destruction of water celery Vallisneria might have reduced the population of canvasback and other ducks that feed on it. Shebley (1917) reported that carp "probably have been the principal cause of destruction of the California [Sacramento] perch, by eating the eggs and digging up the nests" (as Jordan & Gilbert (1894, cited in Smith, 1896) similarly reported from Clear Lake). Shebley believed that carp were the main food of black and striped bass, and that this outweighed the destruction of native perch. Burns (1966b) however, found carp to be of little forage value because they grow large too rapidly. Smith (1896) reports that both muskellunge and sea lions were introduced into Lake Merced, San Francisco in order to eliminate carp. Shebley (1917) says of the introduction of carp to California that "at the time these plants were made the carp was one of the most popular of fishes; they were recommended as valuable food fish that would thrive in all of the warmer lakes, ponds and streams of California. Much has been said for and a great deal more against the introduction of carp into California...In time, as other species become more scarce, the carp will probably become one of the state's most valuable food fishes..." However by 1942 Curtis reported that carp "had become the most unpopular fish ever brought into California. It stands as Public Enemy No. 1 on the fisherman's books" for preying on the spawn of other fish, muddying the water and destroying plants. BDOC (1994) reported that considerable effort is expended on controlling carp in some waters and that their spread should be prevented. Carp have supported small commercial fisheries in Clear Lake, Lake Co. and in San Luis Reservoir, Merced Co. (McGinnis, 1984), with statewide landings in the 1960s of about 300,000 pounds per year valued at $15,000 (Davis, 1963; Burns, 1966b). Dorosoma petenense (Gnther, 1867) [CLUPEIDAE] THREADFIN SHAD, MISSISSIPPI THREADFIN SHAD SYNONYMS: Signalosa petenensis atchafaylae Threadfin shad are native to the Gulf coast from Florida to Guatemala, north to Indiana and Illinois (Page & Burr, 1991). The California Department of Fish and Game planted 314 threadfin shad from Tennessee into four ponds in San Diego in 1953 (Kimsey, 1954). In 1954 and 1955, 1,020 of their progeny were planted in Lake Havasu on the Colorado River, and by the end of 1955 "appeared to be in every habitable part of the Colorado River from Davis Dam to the Mexican border, and in adjacent irrigation ditches, canals, settling basins and the Salton Sea" (Shapovalov et al., 1959). In 1959 threadfin shad were introduced into Central Valley reservoirs as a forage fish for largemouth bass, and spread downstream to the Delta by 1961 (Burns, 1966a; Turner, 1966d; Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984; Herbold et al., 1992) Though mainly found in fresh water, threadfin shad are occasionally found in the sea off California and Oregon. They have been taken in Long Beach Harbor, San Francisco Bay, Drake's Estero and Humboldt Bay, and they grew well but did not

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spawn in the Salton Sea (Burns, 1966a; Miller & Lea, 1972; Eschmeyer & Herald, 1983). They are present in most lower and middle elevation freshwater habitats in California, including nearly all warm water reservoirs, and are abundant throughout the Delta (McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle 1989; Herbold et al., 1992). They have been caught at every Department of Fish and Game sampling station in the Delta, with few were taken in the western Delta (Turner, 1966d). They were the most abundant species of fish caught at stations east of Chipps Island in the Department of Fish and Game's Fall Midwater Trawl Survey for 1967-1988, and were usually found east of Sherman Island except during high outflow (Herbold et al., 1992). Threadfin shad are most abundant in September and least abundant in January, so that heavy mortality must occur during the winter months. Young Corbicula, less then 1 mm in length, are common in stomachs in the spring (Turner, 1966d). Burns (1966a) and McGinnis (1984) reported threadfin shad as an important forage fish for striped bass, but Moyle (1976) found them to be a "relatively minor component of striped bass diet." According to Turner (1966d), its "importance as a forage fish in the Delta may be limited because it is abundant only in restricted areas of quiet water." McConnell & Gerdes (1961) found that threadfin shad failed to provide adequate forage for largemouth bass and black crappie, possibly because of rapid growth by shad after a short spawning period, and that they may compete with the bass and crappie for cladocerans. Burns (1966a) reported threadfin shad as a major food of salmonids in lake Shasta and white catfish in Pine Flat Reservoir. McGinnis (1984) suggested, based on its feeding habits and its abundance in inshore zones, that threadfin shad compete for food with the fry of striped bass and other game fish in the San Joaquin River and in reservoirs. Turner argued that such competition was limited, because in the summer and fall young striped bass are in the western Delta eating Neomysis and Corophium while threadfin shad are in the rest of the Delta eating copepods and cladocerans. "Before the threadfin shad was introduced into the Central Valley of California, Kimsey (1958) expressed concern over the possibility that threadfin shad and small striped bass would compete for food in the Delta. I do not believe that competition between the two species is severe...Relatively few young bass of this age inhabit the areas in the Delta where threadfin shad have become abundant" (Turner, 1966d). Von Geldern & Mitchil (1975, cited in Moyle, 1976b) reported that in many reservoirs threadfin shad reduced the populations of many game fish, including largemouth bass, through competition.

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Gambusia affinis (Baird & Girard, 1853) [POECILIIDAE] WESTERN MOSQUITOFISH Mosquitofish are native to coastal drainages from New Jersey to Mexico, and to the Mississippi River basin north to Indiana and Illinois (Page & Burr, 1991). They were introduced to California in 1922 either from the southeastern United States (according to Moyle, 1976b) or from the southern Midwest (according to McGinnis, 1984) to control mosquitoes. They are now found in nearly every low and middle elevation fresh and brackish water habitat, and may be the most widely distributed and numerous freshwater fish species in the state (McGinnis, 1984). We (JTC) collected it in Lake Merritt in 1964-65, and it is today common in sloughs around the Bay and a common anadromous or resident fish in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Mosquito fish are tolerant of what are normally considered unfavorable water conditions, including high pesticide levels. Females produce up to 300 live young per birth (McGinnis, 1984). Mosquitofish compete with fry that occupy shallow shore edge environments, and reportedly prey on California red-legged frogs (Anon., 1993). They also eat adult pupfish (Cyprinodon sp.), and may have contributed to the decline of a number of endemic pupfish in southern California (Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984; BDOC, 1994). Ictalurus furcatus (Lesueur, 1840) [ICTALURIDAE] BLUE CATFISH Blue catfish are native to coastal drainages from Alabama to Mexico, the Mississippi River basin north to southern South Dakota and western Pennsylvania, and the Rio Grande drainage (Page & Burr, 1991). In 1969, 1,758 blue catfish were flown from Stuttgart, Arkansas to San Diego County and planted in Lake Jennings on an "experimental basis" (Richardson et al., 1970), and later planted in a few other lakes in San Diego County (Taylor, 1980). Blue catfish were known to feed on the introduced clam Corbicula fluminea which was "abundant and a nuisance in many southern California waters but is virtually unutilized by present game fish," and, as the largest American catfish, they were expected to "enhance our fisheries by providing another trophy sized fish" (Richardson et al., 1970). In 1978 a 4-pound blue catfish was caught in the San Joaquin River near Mossdale, the possible source of the specimen being one of 18 fish breeders in the Central Valley licensed to raise blue catfish (Taylor, 1980). Herbold & Moyle (1989) report that blue catfish first appeared in the Delta in 1979, and that young-of-the-year were found in Clifton Court Forebay in 1986, but that they remain rare in the Delta.

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Ictalurus punctatus (Rafinesque, 1818) [ICTALURIDAE] CHANNEL CATFISH, SPOTTED CAT Channel catfish originally ranged from the Gulf States and northern Mexico northward to Hudson Bay, the Great Lakes and Manitoba (Page & Burr, 1991). It is unclear just when the channel catfish was first introduced or became established in California. Shebley (1917) reports it introduced in 1874, and Smith (1896) reports that in that year Livingston Stone introduced some catfish, which could have been channel catfish, from Nebraska's Elkhorn River into the San Joaquin River near Stockton. Curtis (1949) states that this catfish was introduced to the Sacramento River system in 1891, but unnoticed for many years. Smith (1896) says that 250 yearlings each were planted in the Feather River (tributary to the Sacramento) and Lake Cuyamaca (in San Diego County) in 1891, and that 10 fish were planted in the Balsa Chico (Bolsa Chica?) River in 1895. Moyle (1976b) listed it as successfully introduced around 1925. Herbold & Moyle (1989) say that it became established only after several attempts to introduce it, and was first recorded from the Delta in the 1940s. Miller (1966b) reports that channel catfish were planted in the Colorado River at an unknown date and have been taken from there since 1920; and that the first authenticated capture in the Central Valley was in 1942. In 1963-64 only 571 out of 26,000 catfish (2%) collected from the Delta were channel catfish, with most taken in swifter water in channels upstream from the central Delta (Turner, 1966a). They are now found in warm, low elevation rivers and lakes in California, but in some places will not spawn and must be maintained by hatchery stocking (McGinnis, 1984). They are common in the Delta, especially in the channels of the Sacramento River (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). BDOC (1994) noted that channel catfish can destroy the spawning sites of native fish by preying on eggs, larvae and juveniles. Channel catfish live up to 39 years, and grow up to 1 meter in length and 20 kg weight. A single female may lay up to 70,000 eggs. They are the only warm water food fish that is reared commercially in the state, with farms in the Central Valley and elsewhere (McGinnis, 1984). Lepomis cyanellus Rafinesque, 1819 [CENTRARCHIDAE] GREEN SUNFISH Green sunfish originally ranged on the Gulf coast from Florida to northern Mexico north to Ontario to Montana, and have been introduced to much of the United States (Page & Burr, 1991). In 1891 a few unidentified sunfish from Quincy, Illinois were accidentally introduced with other fish into Lake Cuyamaca near San Diego, and green sunfish were taken from that lake by 1895. Another 36 sunfish from Illinois, possibly including green sunfish, were planted in Elsinore Lake and the Balsa Chico (Bolsa Chica?) River in 1895 (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917; Curtis, 1949). Today they are present in most low and middle elevation freshwater habitats in California, except in the Klamath River drainage, and are reported as common and widely distributed in the Delta (McKechnie & Tharratt, 1966; McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). However, in 1963-64, only 15 of 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta (0.1%) were green sunfish (Turner, 1966b).

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Green sunfish are tolerant of high temperatures, low oxygen and high alkalinity, and are territorially aggressive (McGinnis, 1984). They often hybridize with bluegill, producing sterile crosses (Curtis, 1949). Predation by green sunfish nearly eliminated the California roach, Hesperoleucus symmetricus, from the upper San Joaquin, Fresno and Chowchilla rivers (Moyle, 1976b). Along with bluegills, the green sunfish competes with another California endemic, the Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus). In some areas the introduced sunfish exclude the native perch from feeding sites, and may have been contributed to the perch's extermination from its native waters in the Delta (McGinnis, 1984). Predation by green sunfish may have also contributed to declines in red-legged and yellow-legged frogs (BDOC, 1994). Lepomis gulosus (Cuvier, 1829) [CENTRARCHIDAE] WARMOUTH SYNONYMS: Chaenobryttus gulosus Warmouth are native to coastal drainages from Virginia to Texas, the Mississippi River basin north to Pennsylvania, the Great Lakes and Montana, and the Rio Grande upstream to New Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991), and have been widely introduced elsewhere in the West (Hubbell, 1966). In 1891 the U. S. Fish Commission planted 400 yearling warmouth from the fish station in Quincy, Illinois into Lake Cuyamaca in San Diego County, and 100 yearlings into the Feather River near Gridley, in Butte County. In 1895 another 12 warmouth were delivered to the Sisson hatchery, but died before spawning (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917; Curtis, 1949). They were first recorded in the Delta after 1921 (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Warmouth are present in the Colorado River and present though rarely abundant in many parts of the Central Valley and Delta, usually in warm waters with little gradient, soft bottom, and abundant cover (Hubbell, 1966; McGinnis, 1984). In the Delta they are largely restricted to dead-end sloughs of the eastern Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Only 240 of 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta in 1963-64 (2%) were warmouth (Turner, 1966b). Warmouth hybridize with bluegill, pumpkinseed and green sunfish. They are of limited importance as a gamefish in California (Hubbell, 1966).

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Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, 1819 [CENTRARCHIDAE] BLUEGILL, BLUE BREAM Bluegill are native to drainages from Virginia to northern Mexico, the Mississippi River basin north to Quebec, the Great Lakes and Montana, and the Rio Grande upstream to New Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). They may have first been introduced to California along with green sunfish in 1891 (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917), but the first unequivocal reports date from 1908 when the U. S. Fish Commission shipped bluegill from Meredosia, Illinois to California (Curtis, 1949). These were planted in Honey Lake in Lassen County, various lakes in Placer County, Clear Lake in Lake County, Buena Vista Lake in Kern County, Russells Lake in Ventura County, and the Feather, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Kings and Kern rivers, including the San Joaquin River near Stockton (Vogelsand, 1931; Moyle, 1976b). Bluegill today are widely distributed in warm freshwater habitats and are the most abundant sunfish in California (McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). They are common in the Delta, where they accounted for 26 percent of 11,750 centrarchids collected in 1963-64 (Turner, 1966b), and have been collected downstream in San Pablo Bay in the winter (Ganssle, 1966). Bluegill have been known to spawn as yearlings, and females produce 2,000 to 50,000 eggs per spawning. In many areas, overpopulation has produced populations of stunted fish (Emig, 1966c; McGinnis, 1984). The elimination of the Sacramento perch from its native range in the Delta has sometimes been attributed to competition for food and breeding sites by the more aggressive bluegill (Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984; BDOC, 1994), but competition from green sunfish and predation by striped bass and largemouth bass have also been cited as contributing factors. Bluegill eat bass eggs (McGinnis, 1984), and may have contributed to declines in red-legged and yellow-legged frogs (Anon., 1993; BDOC, 1994). Lepomis microlophus (Gnther, 1859) [CENTRARCHIDAE] REDEAR SUNFISH Redear sunfish are native to the southeastern United States, ranging from the Carolinas and Florida to Missouri and Texas, and north in the Mississippi River basin to southern Indiana and Illinois (Page & Burr, 1991). They were first introduced into California in 1948 or 1949 (Emig, 1966d; Moyle, 1976b). In 1954, 3,960 redear fingerlings from the federal hatchery in Dexter, New Mexico were planted in ponds in southern California, and in the fall of 1956 some of the southern California fish were sent to ponds in the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valleys Hatchery. The progeny from these fish were then distributed to other water bodies in the state (Shapovalov et al., 1959). Herbold & Moyle (1989) report that redear sunfish were first introduced or captured in the Delta after 1949. Today redear are present in warm, freshwater habitats of southern and central California (McGinnis, 1984), including a few streams in the San Joaquin River drainage (Brown & Moyle, 1993). They are uncommon in the Delta, where they are mainly found in the channels of the Sacramento River (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). None of the 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta in 1963-1964 were redear sunfish (Turner, 1966b).

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The redear is a deep-water bottom feeder, and is less prolific than the bluegill, producing only about 2,000 eggs per spawning (McGinnis, 1984). Lucania parva (Baird, 1855) [CYPRINODONTIDAE] SYNONYMS: Cyprinodon parvus Lucania venusta Lucania affinis see Hubbs & Miller (1965) for a detailed discussion of synonymy RAINWATER KILLIFISH The rainwater killifish is native to Atlantic coastal regions from Massachusetts to northeastern Mexico, and the Rio Grande drainage. It mainly inhabits protected salt and brackish waters, penetrating into fresher waters in the southern part of its range, and up the Rio Grande into the highly mineralized lower portion of the Pecos River in Texas and New Mexico. It was first collected west of this region in San Francisco Bay at Aquatic Park, Berkeley "not later than the spring of 1958," followed by collections at Richmond and in Corte Madera Creek in Marin County (1958), Lake Merritt, Oakland (1961) and Palo Alto Yacht Harbor (1962). It has also been introduced into Yaquina Bay, Oregon (first collected in 1958), Timpie Springs (1959) and Blue Lake (1961) in northwestern Utah, and Irvine Lake in southern California (1963) (Hubbs & Miller, 1965). Hubbs & Miller (1965) provide evidence indicating that the killifish was probably introduced to Utah and southern California with shipments of gamefish (bluegill, largemouth bass, black crappie or bullhead) from fishery stations on the Pecos River. They suggest that it was transported to San Francisco and Yaquina bays as eggs in shipments of eastern oyster (which continued into the 1940s), or possibly in ballast water. However, the nearly simultaneous discovery of this fish in five separate water bodies in the West suggests that a single transport mechanism was at work. Hubbs & Miller rejected the possibility of accidental transport with New Mexico gamefish planted in the San Francisco and Yaquina bay areas because they could find no records of such plantings. For example, they quote from a letter (Dec. 17, 1959) from Leo Shapovalov of the California Department of Fish and Game that he had "not been able to locate any definite information on shipments of fish into California from the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatchery at Dexter, New Mexico, in relation to the appearance of Lucania in the San Francisco Bay area." However Shapovalov et al. (1959) reported that redear sunfish fingerlings from the Dexter hatchery were planted in southern California ponds in 1954, that the redear sunfish from these ponds were then planted in San Joaquin Valley ponds and brought to the Central Valleys Hatchery (in the San Francisco Bay watershed) in 1956, and that between 1956 and 1959 redear sunfish from this hatchery were planted into "a number of waters" in California. Given the apparent importance of the Dexter hatchery in the 1950s as a source of gamefish stock for western states, and the frequent shipments of gamefish to and between hatcheries, private ponds and public waters (with many of these transactions apparently never recorded), it seems likely that transport with gamefish was responsible for all five introductions of killifish.

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Hubbs & Miller (1965) discuss morphometric and meristic evidence to support their contention that the Utah and southern California killifish populations originated from New Mexico while the San Francisco Bay and Yaquina Bay populations originated from the Atlantic coast, but the correlations they provide are weak at best, and are as readily explained by ecophenotypic variation (e. g. fish inhabiting interior waters versus fish inhabiting tidal waters). We predict that molecular genetic analysis would show all five introduced populations to be more closely related to New Mexico than Atlantic coast stocks. Menidia beryllina (Cope, 1866) [ATHERINIDAE] INLAND SILVERSIDE, MISSISSIPPI SILVERSIDE Synonyms: Menidia audens The inland silverside is native to coastal drainages from Massachusetts to Texas, the Mississippi River and major tributaries to southern Illinois and eastern Oklahoma, and the Rio Grande in Texas and southeastern New Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). In the fall of 1967, the California Department of Fish and Game and the Lake County Mosquito Abatement District planted about 9,000 young-of-the-year silver sides from Oklahoma into Upper and Lower Blue Lakes and Clear Lake in Lake County, California, to control gnats and midges and to reduce nuisance blooms of green algae, although the silverside's ability to control either gnats or algae had not been demonstrated (Moyle, 1976b). The stocking into Clear Lake was apparently also done without the permission of the California Fish and Game Commission or the "official endorsement" of the California Fish and Game (Cook & Moore, 1970; McGinnis, 1984). The silverside population exploded in Clear Lake, such that silversides were the most abundant species taken in seine hauls by the fall of 1968 (one year after the introduction of less than 3,000 fish), with up to 2,500 silversides in a single haul (Cook & Moore, 1970). Silversides became the dominant inshore fish in the lake and, according to McGinnis (1984), provided "the final competitive blow for the extinction of the native Clear Lake splittail." Inland silversides from Clear Lake were introduced into three ponds in Santa Clara County in 1968 and two lakes in Alameda County in 1969 and 1970, and unauthorized transplants, possibly occurring when these fish were used as bait, were subsequently made to other water bodies in these counties (Moyle et al., 1974). Silversides were collected in the San Joaquin River near Manteca in 1971, and became the dominant inshore species there by 1976. By 1980 it was one of the most numerous fish in the Delta system. Its current distribution includes Clear Lake, Cache Creek, Putah Creeks, throughout the Delta downstream to Antioch, and in the tributary rivers and associated reservoirs of the San Joaquin Valley, and it continues to spread (Meinz & Mecum, 1977; McGinnis, 1984). Inland silversides tolerate a wide range of water conditions, including high temperatures, low oxygen and moderate organic pollution. Females may spawn up to 15,000 eggs per year. Inland silversides feed on zooplankton and small, bottomdwelling invertebrates in the inshore zone, and thus may not be very effective at gnat and midge control (McGinnis, 1984).

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Inland silversides may compete with striped bass in the Delta. McGinnis (1984) found that in the middle San Joaquin River Neomysis mercedis is the preferred food of both inland silversides and striped bass. Silversides may also be a significant predator of the larvae and eggs of the endangered Delta smelt (BDOC, 1994; Moyle, pers. comm.). Li et al. (1976) discuss data suggesting that silversides compete with and caused a decline in the growth rate of black and white crappie in Clear Lake. Micropterus dolomieu Lacepde, 1802 [CENTRARCHIDAE] SMALLMOUTH BASS, SMALLMOUTH BLACK BASS Synonyms: Micropterus dolomieui The smallmouth bass is native to the Hudson Bay, Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages from southern Quebec to North Dakota, south to northern Alabama and Oklahoma (Page & Burr, 1991). In 1874 Livingston Stone planted 73 full-grown smallmouth bass from Lake Champlain, Vermont, in Napa Creek, and 12 small bass from the Saint Joseph River, Michigan in Alameda Creek. Bass apparently reproduced in both creeks, but the Napa Creek population was fished out by 1878 while the Alameda Creek population grew large enough to stock other streams. Sometime before 1879, Seth Green imported a shipment of black bass, either smallmouth or largemouth, for the Sportsmen's Club of San Francisco and planted them in Lake Temescal in Oakland. In 1879 Livingston Stone planted another 22 full-grown smallmouth bass in Crystal Springs Reservoir in San Mateo County. These increased rapidly and their progeny were planted around the state, with much of the distribution during this period done by private parties and never recorded. In 1887 black bass were reported in the Russian River (apparently stocked by private parties) and by 1894 anglers were illegally harvesting bass from the river with seine hauls and dynamite. From 1889 to 1895 state authorities engaged in a major redistribution of black bass in the state, taking many of them from the San Andreas Reservoir in San Mateo County and the Russian River (where 9,350 were collected in 1894 and 25,600 fry in 1895) and planting them in waters from San Diego County to Butte County, including the American River and the San Joaquin River in Fresno County. At this time black bass were also reported from the Sacramento River at Colusa (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917). Curtis (1949) reported smallmouth bass in Putah Creek and the Russian, Feather, American, Tulomne, Stanislaus, Merced, San Joaquin, Kings and Kern rivers, with 1,890,000 black bass (both smallmouth and largemouth) caught by anglers in 1948. Smallmouth bass are now present in many rivers and lower and mid-elevation lakes in California (McGinnis, 1984), though uncommon in the Delta where they are largely restricted to dead-end sloughs (Herbold & Moyle 1989). None of the 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta in 1963-64 were smallmouth bass (Turner, 1966b). Brown & Moyle (1993) report that a decline in native hardhead (Mylopharodon conocephalus) in streams of the San Joaquin River drainage was associated with an expansion of smallmouth bass.

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Micropterus salmoides (Lacepde, 1802) [CENTRARCHIDAE] LARGEMOUTH BASS, LARGEMOUTH BLACK BASS SYNONYMS: Huro salmoides Largemouth bass are said to be "the most popular warm-water game fish in North America" (McGinnis, 1984). They are native to the Hudson Bay, Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages from southern Quebec to Montana, south to Louisiana, and coastal drainages from North Carolina to northern Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). Although a pre-1879 private stocking of "black bass" in Lake Temescal in Oakland may have involved either largemouth or smallmouth bass, and largemouth bass were planted in Washington state in 1890, the first unequivocal planting of largemouth bass into California occurred in 1891, when the U. S. Fish Commission planted 620 yearlings in the Feather River near Gridley and 2,000 yearlings in Lake Cuyamaca in San Diego County. In 1895 the California Fish Commission took delivery of 2,500 fry which they raised in the Sisson Hatchery and distributed the progeny throughout the state. As noted above under smallmouth bass, there was also considerable redistribution of black bass around the state at this time (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917). Curtis (1949) reported largemouth bass to be common throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin river system and in southern California, with 1,890,000 black bass (both smallmouth and largemouth) caught by anglers in 1948. Largemouth are reported as common in the Delta, especially in dead-end sloughs (Herbold & Moyle, 1989), although only 34 of 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta in 1963-64 (0.3%) were largemouth bass (Turner, 1966b). In the Delta, predation by largemouth bass and striped bass may have been a key factor in the global extinction of the thicktail chub (Gila crassicauda) and in the elimination of the Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) from its native range in the Delta (Moyle, pers. comm., 1993), though competition from introduced sunfish is also said to be a cause of the perch's decline (McGinnis, 1984). Predation by largemouth bass may also have contributed to the decline of native red-legged and yellow-legged frogs (BDOC, 1994). In eastern California, predation by largemouth bass was probably a major cause of the near extinction of the Owens pupfish, Cyprinodon radiosus (Moyle, 1976; Wilcove et al., 1992). Curtis (1942) reported that trout declines in some waters are caused by black bass. It is interesting to note that even as they made the initial plantings, fishery agents were aware of the bass' potential to reduce native fish populations. As Smith (1896) reported, "State fish commissioners have refrained from depositing fry or yearling bass in waters already stocked with salmon or trout, but have restricted the distribution to lakes, reservoirs, ponds, and rivers in which the predaceous bass could do no damage. It seems only a question of time, however, when the bass will naturally find their way into and become abundant in all those rivers in which they have not already been planted." Largemouth bass have also been introduced to Europe and Africa (Emig, 1966a).

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Morone saxatilis (Walbaum, 1792) [PERCICTHYIDAE] STRIPED BASS, STRIPER, ROCK BASS SYNONYMS: Roccus saxatilis, Roccus lineatus The striped bass is native to the Atlantic coast from the St. Lawrence River to northern Florida, and the Gulf coast from western Florida to Louisiana (Robins & Ray, 1986). In 1879 Livingston Stone planted about 135 fish (from a shipment that started as 132 fish, 1.5 to 5 inches long, plus 30 medium-sized fish) from the Navesink River, New Jersey in Carquinez Strait at Martinez. In 1882, a little over 300 fish (from a shipment that started as 450 fish, 5 to 9 inches long) from the Shrewsbury River, New Jersey were planted in Carquinez Strait at Army Point, Benicia. By 1889, hundreds were being sold in the San Francisco markets (Shebley, 1917). Several workers have theorized that conditions in the late 1800s "probably favored striped bass and American shad reproduction, because their semi-buoyant eggs would not be smothered by silt from gold mining operations" (Herbold et al., 1992), unlike the eggs of many native fish that are laid in the bottom gravel or attached to submerged vegetation or other substrate. Striped bass are present today in the Sacramento-San Joaquin river system, in San Antonio Reservoir, in Lake Mendocino and in the lower Colorado River (McGinnis, 1984). Unsuccessful attempts were also made to establish striped bass in the Salton Sea (Roedel, 1953). Land-locked populations exist in Millerton Reservoir in Fresno County (a self-sustaining population) and San Luis Reservoir (restocked continuously by means of water imported from the Delta, which entrains young bass). Striped bass were propagated in hatcheries by the California Department of Fish and Game and annually released to the Delta from 1982 to 1992, when stocking was curtailed due to concern over predation on the endangered winter-run chinook salmon (BDOC, 1994). An estimated 80 million fry were entrained by State Water Project pumps each year, and 165 million fry a year by the cooling water intakes for the PG&E power plants in Antioch and Pittsburg. The striped bass population dropped from an estimated 4 million fish in 1960, to 2 million in 1970, to 1 million in 1980 (McGinnis, 1984). Herbold et al. (1992) reported the population in the Estuary at 1,480,000 to 1,880,000 prior to 1976, and 520,000 to 1,160,000 after 1977. Striped bass were the most common fish collected in trawls of Suisun Marsh sloughs in 1979-86 (Brown, 1987). They were reported as abundant in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989), and common to abundant in San Francisco Bay (Emmett at al., 1991). Striped bass were also reported as common in Tomales Bay, and in Coos Bay, the Umpqua River and the Siuslaw River in Oregon. They have been reported north to British Columbia and south into Mexico, but populations in the southern bays are not self-sustaining (Emmett at al., 1991). Striped bass from the San Francisco Bay watershed have been captured from central Oregon to southern California, but most travel no further than 40 km from the Golden Gate (Herbold et al., 1992). Mean fecundity for striped bass has been reported at 243,000 eggs (for 4-yearolds) to 1,427,000 eggs (for 8-year-olds and older). A 5-pound fish spawns up to 25,000 eggs, a 12-pound fish up to 1,250,000 eggs, and a 75-pound fish up to 10,000,000 eggs (CDFG 1987; Emmett at al., 1991). Herbold et al. (1992) reported that "females commonly broadcast from 500,000 to 4.5 million eggs (Hassler 1988), although estimates range from 11,000 (Moyle 1976) to a high of 5.3 million (Hollis 1967; Hardy 1978; Wang 1986)."

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Striped bass eggs are found from fresh water to salinities of 11 ppt (with optimal salinities between 1.5 and 3.0 ppt) and tolerate temperatures of 12-24C (with an optimum of 18C). Larvae occur in both freshwater and oligohaline water. Juveniles and adults are found in all parts of the estuary. Most males mature in their 2nd or 3rd year, females in their 4th or 5th year. Maximum reported age is over 30 years. Striped bass fry are pelagic carnivores feeding on small invertebrates. Juveniles and adults are epibenthic and pelagic carnivores, the juveniles feeding on the young of small fish and larger invertebrates, while the adults are primarily piscivorous (McGinnis, 1984; Emmett at al., 1991). The commercial catch in 1899, 2 decades after introduction, was 560 tons and usually exceeded 450 tons up to 1915. Commercial fishing in the Estuary was banned in 1935 to avoid competition with the sport fishery. Although there is no longer a commercial fishery, "each year thousands of kilograms of illegal striped bass are believed to make their way to restaurants and fish markets in the greater San Francisco Bay area. Some of these come from massive nighttime netting operations in the lower Delta area. Small time operators, however, simply use standard sport fishing techniques to catch far more than the legal limit and then proceed directly to some local buyer" (McGinnis, 1984). Striped bass is the principal sport fish caught in San Francisco Bay, and the economically most important fish in the Delta. The sport catch ranged from 107,000 to 403,000 fish in 1975-78 (Emmett at al., 1991). In 1980 California anglers took about 1 million bass, spending about $7 million in the process (McGinnis, 1984). "The subsidiary industries surrounding striped bass fishing (boats, marinas, and paraphernalia) are estimated to bring $45 million into the local economies" (Herbold et al., 1992). Striped bass were the most numerous predator at three sampled locations in the Delta (Pickard et al., 1982). Moyle has suggested that striped bass and largemouth bass preyed on and contributed to the global extinction of thicktail chub (Gila crassicauda), and the elimination of Sacramento perch (Archoplites interruptus) from its native waters in the Delta (Moyle, pers. comm., 1993), though competition with introduced sunfish has also been raised as a factor in the decline of the perch (McGinnis, 1984). Striped bass have been reported as a major predator of salmon fingerlings in the Delta (USBR, 1983), though chinook salmon formed only a minor component of the stomach contents of subadult and adult striped bass collected in the Delta in 1963-64 (Stevens, 1966). BDOC (1994) noted that few young salmon are eaten by striped bass in the Estuary (except at salmon stocking sites and Clifton Court Forebay), but sometimes form a substantial part of the diet of striped bass upstream in the Sacramento River, and concluded that striped bass predation reduces salmon abundance by an unquantified amount.

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Notemigonus crysoleucas (Mitchill, 1814) [CYPRINIDAE] GOLDEN SHINER The golden shiner is native to coastal drainages from Nova Scotia to Texas, and the Hudson Bay, Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages west to Alberta and Oklahoma, and "widely introduced (via bait buckets) elsewhere in U. S." (Page & Burr, 1991). It was imported into southern California in 1891, and was widespread in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River system by 1964 (Kimsey & Fisk, 1964), probably distributed as bait releases by anglers (Herbold & Moyle 1989). In 1963-64, 212 of 12,400 cyprinids (2%) collected in the Delta were golden shiner, mainly taken in dead-end sloughs (Turner, 1966c). They are reported as widely established in California (Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984) and common in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). The golden shiner is one of three legal freshwater bait fishes in California (the others, also nonnative fish, are red shiner and fathead minnow), supporting a "rather lucrative small industry" of bait fish propagation and leading to its wide distribution in the state. It is a popular bait for striped bass (McGinnis, 1984). Golden shiner reportedly compete with both native cyprinids and the fry of some gamefish (McKechnie, 1966b; McGinnis, 1984). Trout production in some lakes has been reduced by competition between trout parr and golden shiner (McGinnis, 1984). Pat O'Brien of the California Department of Fish and Game reports that 2 to 3 high elevation lakes in California are taken over each year by illegally planted brown bullhead and golden shiner. Percina macrolepida Stevenson, 1971 [PERCIDAE] BIGSCALE LOGPERCH SYNONYMS: Percina caprodes The native range of the bigscale logperch runs from the Sabine River in Louisiana to the Red River in Oklahoma, the Rio Grande drainage in Texas and New Mexico, and Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). It was accidentally introduced from Texas in 1953 in an airplane shipment of largemouth bass and bluegill that was planted in Miller, Blackwelder and Polk lakes at Beale Air Force Base, Yuba County, by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The lakes are in the Yuba River drainage, a tributary of the Sacramento, and regularly overflow (Shapovalov et al., 1959; Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984). By 1972-73 the logperch was established in the lower Sacramento River and the Delta (Moyle et al., 1974), and are now widespread throughout the Sacramento-San Joaquin river system (Moyle, 1976b; McGinnis, 1984) and common in the Delta (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). They are also abundant in Lake Del Valle in Alameda County, probably pumped in from the Delta via the State Water Project pumps and the South Bay Aqueduct (Moyle et al., 1974).

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Pimephales promelas Rafinesque, 1820 [CYPRINIDAE] FATHEAD MINNOW The native range of the fathead minnow runs from Quebec to the Northwest Territories and south to Alabama, Texas and New Mexico (Page & Burr, 1991). The first record of it in California is from a bait tank near the Colorado River in 1950. In 1953, 40,000 were imported by a fish breeder in Turlock. The California Department of Fish and Game purchased 1,000 of these fish, spawned them at the Central Valleys Hatchery, and planted the progeny in various water bodies as forage fish (Shapovalov et al., 1959). The fathead minnow is one of California's three legal freshwater bait fish, and it has been further spread through the state as bait releases by anglers (McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Herbold & Moyle (1989) report it first appearing in the Delta in the 1950s, where it is now occasionally collected and common only in localized patches, generally in small creeks. The fathead minnow is tolerant of high temperatures, low oxygen and organic pollution (McGinnis, 1984). It has the potential to compete with the ecologically-similar native, the California roach Hesperoleucus symmetricus, whose distinct forms may actually be separate species (Moyle, 1976b). McGinnis (1984) warned that its "ability to establish populations readily in pools of intermittent streams and backwater areas in California poses a serious threat to several native cyprinids adapted to such habitats." Pomoxis annularis Rafinesque, 1818 [CENTRARCHIDAE] WHITE CRAPPIE Pomoxis nigromaculatus (Lesueur, 1829) [CENTRARCHIDAE] SYNONYMS: Pomoxis sparoides BLACK CRAPPIE, CALICO BASS, STRAWBERRY BASS The black crappie is native to the eastern United States from Virginia to Texas and north through the Mississippi River basin to the Great Lakes. The white crappie's native range runs from the Gulf coast between Alabama and Texas north through the Mississippi River basin to the Great Lakes and Hudson Bay (Goodson, 1966a; Page & Burr, 1991). The history of the introduction and spread of these fish in California is uncertain because there were numerous attempted introductions, both successful and unsuccessful, and because some authors failed to distinguish (or confused) the two fish. The first recorded introduction of these fish on the Pacific coast was near Seattle, Washington in 1890. In 1891, 285 yearling black and white crappie from the U. S. Fish Commission station at Quincy, Illinois were planted in Lake Cuyamaca near San Diego. Vogelsang (1931) and Goodson (1966a) state that this introduction was unsuccessful. In 1895 a second shipment, of 50,000 fry, was sent to the Sisson Hatchery, but none survived (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917; Curtis, 1949). Goodson (1966a) states that another unsuccessful attempt was made in 1901 (citing Vogelsang (1931) who, however, makes no reference to a 1901 attempt). In 1908, crappie from the Illinois station were planted in Honey Lake in Lassen County, Vera Lake in Nevada County, Clear Lake in Lake

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County, in sloughs and tributaries of the Feather, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Kings and Kern rivers (including the San Joaquin River near Stockton in the Delta), and possibly at other sites in southern California (Shebley, 1917; Vogelsang, 1931; Goodson, 1966a). Of this effort, Vogelsang (1931) implies that both species of crappie were introduced (Vogelsang introduces his paper as an account of "the first successful introduction of the crappie, calico bass [=respectively, the white crappie and the black crappie; Smith (1896) and Shebley (1917) use the same nomenclature], blue gill and green sunfishes and the yellow perch" into California, although in the rest of the paper he only refers to "crappie"), Shebley (1917) states only that the white crappie was introduced, and Goodson (1966a) argues that probably only the black crappie was introduced, since white crappie were not reported north of the Tehachapi Mountains until 1951. Goodson (1966a) reports the introduction of 16 crappie from an unknown source into a pond in San Diego County in 1917, and the subsequent stocking of nine San Diego County reservoirs from that pond. Since only white crappie have since been reported from these reservoirs, he argues that the original plant of 16 fish were all white crappie, and that all white crappie in California are descended from those 16 fish. Curtis (1949) reported the white crappie surviving only in the San Diego area and the Colorado River drainage, and the black crappie widespread in the state. Nearly 3 million crappie were caught in the state in 1948, mainly in southern California. In 1951 white crappie from one of the San Diego reservoirs were planted in a reservoir in Colusa County, and subsequent plants were made in other California waters (Goodson, 1966a). Moyle (1976b), more-or-less consistent with Goodson, lists the black crappie as introduced in 1908 (citing Vogelsang, 1931) and the white crappie as introduced, from Illinois, in 1917 (citing Curtis, 1949, who, however, describes both species as introduced in 1891). Herbold & Moyle (1989) list the "year of introduction or first capture" in the Delta as 1908 for the black crappie and 1951 for the white crappie. We relied on Moyle's dates for our analysis. Black crappie are today present in low and middle elevation reservoirs and slow streams (McGinnis, 1984). They are common in the Delta, accounting for 71% of the 11,750 centrarchids collected in the Delta in 1963-1964 (Turner, 1966b), and have on occasion been collected downstream to Martinez (Gannsle, 1966). McGinnis (1984) reported the white crappie's distribution as throughout southern California and in Clear Lake. It is apparently uncommon in the Delta, with only one white crappie out of 11,750 centrarchids collected there in 1963-1964 (Turner, 1966b). A large crappie can produce more than 200,000 eggs per spawning (McGinnis, 1984). In a study of their feeding habits in the Delta, black crappie mainly ate threadfin shad and striped bass, along with small numbers of chinook salmon, Delta smelt and other fish (Turner, 1966b). Curtis (1949) reported that crappie compete with bass for food.

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Tridentiger bifasciatus Steindachner [GOBIIDAE] SHIMOFURI GOBY It was discovered in 1994 that the introduced gobies in California called chameleon gobies consisted of two different species. The shimofuri goby, native to Japan and China, is adapted to fresher water than the chameleon goby and was first recorded in 1985 from Suisun Bay, having probably arrived in ballast water. By 1989 it was the most abundant fish in Suisun Bay, and by 1990 the most abundant larval fish in the upper Estuary. By 1990 it had also been transported 513 km south via the California Aqueduct to Pyramid Reservoir, and thence into Piru Creek by 1992 (Matern & Fleming, in prep.). Experiments indicate that if the shimofuri goby disperses to coastal waters harboring the endangered tidewater goby Eucyclogobius newberryi, it could have a substantial impact by preying on juvenile tidewater gobies, competing for food, and disturbing mating activities (Swenson & Matern, 1995). Tridentiger trigonocephalus (Gill, 1859) [GOBIIDAE] CHAMELEON GOBY, TRIDENT GOBY, SHIMAHAZE The chameleon goby is native to marine and brackish waters of Japan, China and Siberia (Eschmeyer et al., 1983). One specimen (70.4 mm standard length) was collected from Los Angeles Harbor in June 1960, with others were collected there in 1977 (Haaker, 1979). It was collected from the Redwood City docks in southern San Francisco Bay in 1962 (Matern & Fleming, in prep.) Various workers have suggested that the goby could have been transported across the Pacific in ballast water, in ships' seawater systems, as eggs laid on fouling organisms on ships' hulls, or (for transport to San Francisco Bay) as eggs laid on imported Japanese oysters (Hubbs & Miller, 1965; Haaker, 1979). However, except for occasional experimental plants, Japanese oysters have not been planted in San Francisco Bay since the 1930s, and have never been planted in Los Angeles Harbor (Carlton, 1979a) The chameleon goby has also become established in Sydney Harbor, Australia (Haaker, 1979).

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AMPHIBIANS Rana catesbeiana AMERICAN BULLFROG The bullfrog is native to North America east of Colorado and New Mexico, and has become established in most western states, Hawaii, Mexico, Cuba, Japan and Italy (Stebbins, 1966). The bullfrog appears to have been independently introduced to California several times between 1910 and 1920. Bullfrogs were reported, but not confirmed, from Little Lake, Inyo County in 1918, and from ponds on the Stanford University campus in 1920. In July, 1922, adult and tadpole bullfrogs were collected from Sonoma Creek near El Verano, Sonoma County. These frogs were believed to be the descendants of 132 frogs purchased from New Orleans and 12 frogs purchased from a San Francisco frog merchant in 1914 and 1915 and planted in a nearby reservoir. Bullfrogs were also collected from Mockingbird Lake, Riverside County in 1922 and then from other lakes and streams in the area, possibly derived from a stock of Illinois and Louisiana bullfrogs kept by the physiology instructor at the Loma Linda College of Medical Evangelists since at least 1914 (Storer, 1922; George, 1927). Moyle (1979) reports that in 1929 bullfrogs were collected from the Kings River and planted in the San Joaquin River near Friant, and were introduced tno pons at the San Joaquin Experimental Range in Madera County in 1934. The bullfrog was well established in the San Joaquin Valley by 1930, and is now common in many parts of California, including the Delta (Moyle, 1973; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Although several authors have reported that reductions in populations of the California red-legged frog Rana aurora, and possibly of the foothill yellow-legged frog Rana boylii, may be due to predation by or competition from bullfrogs (Moyle, 1973; Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Anon., 1993; BDOC, 1994), other factors (including overharvesting of red-legged frog prior to the introduction of bullfrog, habitat changes, and predation by introduced fish) make it difficult to assess the bullfrog's true impact (Harvey et al., 1992).

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REPTILES Pseudemys scripta POND SLIDER, RED-EARED SLIDER Pond sliders are native to the eastern United States south to Panama (Stebbins, 1966). They were presumably introduced to California as released or escaped pets and are common in the Delta and elsewhere in California (Herbold & Moyle, 1989; Harvey et al., 1992, p. 180). The frequency with which they are encountered, our (ANC) observations of a female laying eggs and of live, hatched young in a nest at San Pablo Reservoir in Alameda County in July 1994, and reports of reproducing populations at sites surrounding the Estuary (in Putah Creek in Solano County, Walnut Creek and Jewel Lake in Contra Costa County, Boronda Lake in Santa Clara County and Stow lake in San Francisco County; Harvey et al., 1992), suggest that they are almost certainly established in the Delta as well. Although reportedly banned in the early 1970s (Harvey et al.), we (ANC) have recently seen live sliders for sale in Asian markets in San Francisco.

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MAMMALS Ondatra zibethicus MUSKRAT The muskrat, native to the eastern United States, is common in the Delta and other parts of California in riparian woodland, freshwater and brackish marsh, and aquatic habitats (Josselyn, 1983; Herbold & Moyle, 1989, Harvey et al., 1992). Muskrat can damage banks and levees with their burrowing. Skinner (1962, p. 161) reported that over the previous twenty years muskrat had "risen to the status of the most important fur bearer in the state, in terms of number of animals and total value of the raw furs...Originally introduced into the northeastern counties, they have moved down the Sacramento and into the San Joaquin system since 1943." He reports trap data for the state beginning in 1921-22, and for the San Francisco Bay Area starting in 1939-40, with the number trapped annually in the Bay Area rising from less than 100 until 1950 to between 6,000 and 9,500 in 1951-56. Herbold & Moyle (1989, citing a 1962 report) reported about 11,000 trapped annually in the Delta.

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Native range, date of first record (planting, collection, observation or report) in the San Francisco Estuary, and probable initial mechanism(s) of introduction to the Pacific coast for non-indigenous marine, estuarine and aquatic biota. Native Range: N - North S - South Date: n - northern s - southern e - eastern w - western ne - northeastern nw - northwestern se - southeastern midw - midwestern

An earlier date in brackets [] refers to the first California record, in parentheses () to the first northeastern Pacific record. Ogee brackets {} provide the date of first record of the introduced host of parasitic or commensal organisms. Where the record is a written account that does not state the date of first planting, collection or observation, we give the date of the publication, submission or writing of the account preceded by the symbol (meaning that the first collection or observation was on or before that date). These dates of first written account are excluded from the quantitative analysis, as are dates marked by a question mark (indicating substantial doubt about the record) or by an asterisk (see text under "Methods" for explanation). Parentheses () indicate less probable mechanisms. Brackets [] indicate the mechanism of introduction to the San Francisco Estuary where known to be different from the initial mechanism of introduction to the Pacific coast. AG - accidental release by a government agency (with fish stocking or march restoration) BC - biocontrol release (by government agency or with government approval) BW - in ballast water or in a ship's seawater system FS - fish or shellfish stocked by a government agency GS - gradual spread from eastern North America MR - planted for marsh restoration or erosion control OA - in shipments of Atlantic oysters OJ - in shipments of Japanese oysters RI - released by an individual (intentional or accidental; see text under "Mechanisms" for full explanation) RR - released as a result of research activities (intentional or accidental) SB - in solid ballast SF - in ship fouling or boring SW - in seaweed packing for live New England baitworms or lobsters.

Mechanisms:

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Taxon

Species

Common Name

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

PLANTS
Seaweeds Chlorophyta Phaeophyta Rhodophyta

Bryopsis sp. Codium fragile tomentosoides dead man's fingers Sargassum muticum Japanese weed Callithamnion byssoides Polysiphonia denudata

? 1951 SF Japan 1977 SF Japan 1973 [1963] (1944) OJ Nova Scotia to Florida 1978-83 SF,SW nw Atlantic 1963-64 SF,(BW)

Vascular Plants Dicotyledones Chenopodium macrospermum S America 1993 [1959] ? var. halophilum Cotula coronopifolia brass buttons S Africa 1878 SB Lepidium latifolium broadleaf peppergrass Eurasia 1978 [1936] ? Limosella subulata awl-leaved mudwort Europe, e N America 1979 [1959] GS Lythrum salicaria purple loosestrife Europe 1993 [1968] GS Myriophyllum aquaticum parrot's feathers S America 1979 [1957] RI Myriophyllum spicatum Eurasian milfoil Eurasia, N Africa 1976 RI Polygonum patulum smartweed e Europe 1993 [1959] ? Rorippa nasturtium aquaticum watercress Europe 1959 [1944] (1941)GS,RI Salsola soda s Europe 1968 ? Spergularia media sand spurrey Europe 1979 [1959] ? Monocotyledones Egeria densa elodea S America 1979 [1944] RI Eichhornia crassipes water hyacinth tropical S America 1904 RI Iris pseudacorus yellow flag Europe 1978-79 [1957] RI Polypogon elongatus S America 1959 ? Potamogeton crispus curly-leaf pondweed Europe 1988-90* [1959] A G Spartina alterniflora smooth cordgrass nw Atlantic 1970-73 (1910) SB [MR] Spartina anglica English cordgrass England 1977 (1961-62) MR Spartina densiflora dense-flowered cordgrass Chile 1976 (1850*) SB [MR] Spartina patens saltmeadow cordgrass se U S 1968 (1930) MR Typha angustifolia narrow-leaf cattail Eurasia 1983 [1951] ?

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Taxon

Species

Common Name

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

P ROTOZOANS
free-living Trochammina hadai on molluscan hosts Ancistrocoma pelseneeri Ancistrum cyclidioides Boveria teredinidi Sphenophyra dosiniae on crustacean hosts Cothurnia limnoriae Lobochona prorates Mirofolliculina limnoriae Japan Europe Europe n Atlantic Europe ? ? ? 1991* 1936* {1894} 1946* {1894} 1927* {1913} 1946* {1894} 1927* {1871} 1927* {1871} 1927* {1871} ? O A O A SF O A SF SF SF

IN V E R T E B R A T E S
Porifera

Cliona sp. Halichondria bowerbanki Haliclona loosanoffi Microciona prolifera Prosuberites sp. Blackfordia virginica Cladonema uchidai Clava multicornis Cordylophora caspia Corymorpha sp. Garveia franciscana Gonothyraea clarki Maeotias inexspectata Obelia ?bidentata Obelia ?dichotoma Sarsia tubulosa Tubularia crocea Aurelia "aurita" Diadumene ?cincta Diadumene franciscana Diadumene leucolena Diadumene lineata

boring sponge Bowerbank's halichondria Loosanoff's haliclona red beard sponge

n Atlantic? n Atlantic n Atlantic nw Atlantic nw Atlantic

1891 1950-53* 1950* 1945-49 1953* 1970 1979 1895 1930 (1920) 1955-56 1901 1895 1992 1912 1894 1860 (1859) 1859 1989?* 1955-75 1925-40 1936 1906

O A OA,SF OA,SF OA,SF OA,SF BW,SF BW,OJ,SF SF BW,SF BW,OA,SF SF OA,SF BW,SF OA,SF OA,SF SF SF BW,SF BW,SF BW,SF BW,OA,SF OA,SF

Cnidaria Hydrozoa

Scyphozoa Anthozoa

Black & Caspian Seas Japan club hydroid nw Atlantic freshwater hydroid Black & Caspian Seas n Atlantic? n Indian Ocean? n Atlantic Black Sea New England? Europe? n Atlantic nw Atlantic moon jelly nw Pacific orange anemone Europe? San Francisco anemone ? white anemone nw Atlantic orange-striped green anemone Japan

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Taxon Annelida Oligochaeta

Species

Common Name

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

Polychaeta

Branchiura sowerbyi Asia 1963* [1950*] BW,RI,SB Limnodrilus monothecus nw Atlantic 1985 (1960*) BW,OA,SB Paranais frici Caspian & Black Seas 1961-62* BW,RI,SB Potamothrix bavaricus Eurasia 1965 BW,RI,SB Tubificoides apectinatus n Atlantic 1961-62* BW,OA,SB Tubificoides brownae n Atlantic 1961-62* BW,OA,SB Tubificoides wasselli nw Atlantic 1961-62* BW,OA,SB Varichaetadrilus angustipenis eUS 1982 BW,RI Boccardiella ligerica nw European coast 1954 [1935] BW Ficopomatus enigmaticus Australian tubeworm Australia 1920 SF Heteromastus filiformis nw Atlantic 1936* BW,OA Manayunkia speciosa e N America 1963* (1961*) AG,BW Marenzelleria viridis nw Atlantic 1991 BW Marphysa sanguinea n Atlantic? 1969 BW,OA Nereis succinea pile worm n Atlantic? 1896 OA,SF Polydora ligni mud worm n Atlantic 1933* (1932*) BW,OA,(SF) Potamilla sp. ? 1989 BW Pseudopolydora kempi Indian Ocean or nw Pacific1972 [1960] (1951)BW,OJ,SF Pseudopolydora paucibranchiata Japan? 1973 [1950] BW,OJ,SF Sabaco elongatus bamboo worm nw Atlantic 1950s* BW,OA Streblospio benedicti Atlantic 1932* BW,OA,(SF)
channeled whelk Chinese mystery snail nw Atlantic China, Japan 1938 1938 [1900] 1898 1901 1907 1993* 1988 [1972] 1890 OA,(RI) RI O A O A O A SW RI O A

Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia Busycotypus canaliculatus Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata Crepidula convexa Crepidula plana Ilyanassa obsoleta Littorina saxatilis Melanoides tuberculata Urosalpinx cinerea

convex slipper shell nw Atlantic eastern white slipper shell nw Atlantic eastern mudsnail nw Atlantic rough periwinkle n Atlantic red-rim melania Africa to East Indies Atlantic oyster drill nw Atlantic

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Taxon

Species

Common Name two-groove odostome

Native Range

Date 1977* 1974 1979 1962 1950-60 1992 1972 1953 1871

Mechanism OA,(BW) BW,SF BW,SF BW,OJ,SF BW,OJ,SF BW BW,SF BW,SF OA,(SB,SF)

Mollusca: Gastropoda continued Opisthobranchia Boonea bisuturalis Catriona rickettsi Cuthona perca Eubranchus misakiensis Okenia plana Philine auriformis Sakuraeolis enosimensis Tenellia adspersa Pulmonata Ovatella myosotis Mollusca: Bivalvia Arcuatula demissa Corbicula fluminea Gemma gemma Lyrodus pedicellatus Macoma petalum Musculista senhousia Mya arenaria Mytilus galloprovincialis Petricolaria pholadiformis Potamocorbula amurensis Teredo navalis Theora fragilis Venerupis philippinarum Crustacea Eusarsiella zostericola Acartiella sinensis Limnoithona sinensis Limnoithona tetraspina Mytilicola orientalis Oithona davisae Pseudodiaptomus forbesi Pseudodiaptomus marinus Sinocalanus doerrii Tortanus sp.

nw Atlantic ? Lake Merritt cuthona ? Misaki balloon aeolis Japan? flat okenia Japan tortellini snail New Zealand; Australia? white-tentacled Japanese aeolis Japan miniature aeolis Europe Europe?

ribbed mussel nw Atlantic 1894 O A Asian clam China, Korea, Japan 1945 (1924) RI amethyst gem clam nw Atlantic 1893 O A blacktip shipworm ? 1920 [1871] SF Baltic clam nw Atlantic <1988* OA,SB Japanese mussel Japan, China 1946 (1924) OJ soft-shell clam n Atlantic 1874 O A Mediterranean mussel Mediterranean Sea 1985-87* [1947*] BW,SF false angelwing nw Atlantic 1927 OA,(BW) Amur River corbula s China to s Siberia, Japan 1986 BW naval shipworm ? 1913 SF Asian semele w Pacific 1982 [1968-69] BW Japanese littleneck clam w Pacific 1946 (1924) OJ

Arthropoda: Ostracoda Copepoda

parasitic copepod

nw Atlantic 1953* OA,(BW) China 1993 BW Yangtze River, China 1979 BW Yangtze River, China 1993 BW w Pacific 1974* (1938) {1875} OJ Japan 1979 BW Yangtze River, China 1987 BW China, Japan 1986 BW Chinese rivers 1978 BW ? 1993 BW

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Taxon

Species

Common Name striped barnacle bay barnacle

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

Arthropoda: Crustacea continued Cirripedia Balanus amphitrite Balanus improvisus Nebaliacea Epinebalia sp. Mysidacea Acanthomysis aspera Acanthomysis sp. Deltamysis holmquistae Cumacea Nippoleucon hinumensis Isopoda Dynoides dentisinus Eurylana arcuata Iais californica Limnoria quadripunctata Limnoria tripunctata Paranthura sp. Sphaeroma quoyanum Synidotea laevidorsalis Tanaidacea Sinelobus sp. Amphipoda Ampelisca abdita Ampithoe valida Caprella mutica Chelura terebrans Corophium acherusicum Corophium alienense Corophium heteroceratum Corophium insidiosum Gammarus daiberi Grandidierella japonica Jassa marmorata Leucothoe sp. Melita nitida Melita sp. Paradexamine sp. Parapleustes derzhavini Stenothoe valida Transorchestia enigmatica

gribble gribble

skeleton shrimp

shorehopper

Indian Ocean 1938-39 [1921] SF n Atlantic 1853 SF ? 1992 BW Japan 1992 BW ? 1992 BW ? 1977 BW Japan 1986 (1979) BW Japan, Korea 1977 BW,SF New Zealand or Chile 1978 BW,SF Australia, New Zealand 1904 {1893} SF ? 1873 [1871?] SF ? 1875 [1871?] SF w Pacific? 1993* BW,SF Australia, New Zealand 1893 SF nw Pacific 1897 SF ? 1943 BW,SF nw Atlantic 1954 BW,OA nw Atlantic 1941 [1941] BW,OA,SF Japan to Vladivostok 1976-77 [1973-77] BW,OJ ? 1948 SF ? 1912-13* (1905) OA,SF Southeast Asia? 1973 BW China 1986 BW n Atlantic 1931 (1915) OA,SF nw Atlantic 1983 BW,(SF) Japan 1966 BW,OJ,SF nw Atlantic 1977 [1941*] BW,SF ? 1977* SF,(OA,OJ) nw Atlantic 1938 BW,OA,SB,SF ? 1993* BW,SF w Pacific? 1993* BW,SF w Pacific? 1904 SF subtropics?/tropics? 1941 BW,SF Chile? or New Zealand? 1962* SB

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Taxon

Species

Common Name

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

Arthropoda: Crustacea continued Decapoda Carcinus maenas Eriocheir sinensis Orconectes virilis Pacifastacus leniusculus Palaemon macrodactylus Procambarus clarkii Rhithropanopeus harrisii Arthropoda: Insecta Anisolabis maritima Neochetina bruchi Neochetina eichhorniae Trigonotylus uhleri Entoprocta Bryozoa

green crab Europe 1989-90 [1989] BW,RR,SW Chinese mitten crab China, Korea 1992 BW,RI virile crayfish midw U S 1959 [1939-41] RR signal crayfish Oregon to British Columbia1959 [1912? 1898?]FS oriental shrimp Korea, Japan, n China 1957 BW red swamp crayfish se U S 1966 [1924] RI Harris mud crab nw Atlantic 1937 BW,OA,SF maritime earwig cordgrass bug n Atlantic Argentina Argentina nw Atlantic coast Europe e & midw U S ambiguous bryozoan creeping bryozoan 1935 [1921] (1920) 1982 1982-83 1993* 1929 1982-84 [1972] SB BC BC A G OJ,SF RI

Barentsia benedeni Urnatella gracilis Alcyonidium polyoum Anguinella palmata Bowerbankia gracilis Bugula "neritina" Bugula stolonifera Conopeum tenuissimum Cryptosula pallasiana Schizoporella unicornis Victorella pavida Watersipora "subtorquata" Zoobotryon verticillatum

nw Atlantic 1951-52 BW,OA,SF n Atlantic 1993* [1933-42] (1933-42) SF nw Atlantic? 1963 [1953] (1923)OA,SF ? 1983 [1905] SF, (OA) nw Atlantic 1978 [1978] SF nw Atlantic 1951-52* BW,OA,SF n Atlantic 1944-47 [1943-44] OA,SF nw Pacific 1963 [1938] (1927) OJ,SF Indian Ocean? 1967* OA,OJ,SF nw Pacific? 1992 [1963] SF subtropical? 1993 [1905] SF ? Japan ne Atlantic ? n Atlantic Japan? nw Atlantic n China to Okhotsk Sea 1993-94* [1983] BW,SF 1973 OJ,SF 1944-47 OA,SF 1983 OJ,SF 1932 [1897] BW,SF 1993-94* BW,SF 1950s [1949] BW,OA,SF 1949 [1932-33] BW,OJ,SF

Chordata:

Tunicata Ascidia sp. Botryllus aurantius Botryllus schlosseri Botryllus sp. Ciona intestinalis Ciona savignyi Molgula manhattensis Styela clava

golden star tunicate sea vase

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Taxon

Species

Common Name

Native Range

Date

Mechanism

VERTEBRATES
Fish

Acanthogobius flavimanus Alosa sapidissima Ameiurus catus Ameiurus melas Ameiurus natalis Ameiurus nebulosus Carassius auratus Cyprinus carpio Dorosoma petenense Gambusia affinis Ictalurus furcatus Ictalurus punctatus Lepomis cyanellus Lepomis gulosus Lepomis macrochirus Lepomis microlophus Lucania parva Menidia beryllina Micropterus dolomieu Micropterus salmoides Morone saxatilis Notemigonus crysoleucas Percina macrolepida Pimephales promelas Pomoxis annularis Pomoxis nigromaculatus Tridentiger bifasciatus Tridentiger trigonocephalus Rana catesbeiana Pseudemys scripta Ondatra zibethicus

yellowfin goby Japan, South Korea, China 1963 BW,SF American shad Labrador to Florida 1871 FS white catfish New York to Mississippi 1874 FS black bullhead central N America 1874 FS yellow bullhead central N America 1874 FS brown bullhead central N America 1874 FS goldfish China 1963-64* [early 1900s*] R I carp Eurasia 1917 [1872] FS, RI threadfin shad midw U S, Florida to Guatemala 1961 [1953] FS mosquitofish midw & se U S, Mexico 1964-65* [1922] BC blue catfish midw & se U S, Rio Grande, Mexico1979 [1969] FS channel catfish central N America 1940s [1891?] FS green sunfish midw & se U S, n Mexico 1963-64*[1891] A G warmouth midw & se U S, Rio Grande after 1921* [1891] FS bluegill midw & se U S, Rio Grande, n Mexico1908 [1891?] FS redear sunfish midw & se U S after 1949* [1948-49] FS rainwater killifish Mass. to Mexico, Rio Grande 1958 A G inland silversides midw & se U S, Rio Grande 1971 [1967] BC smallmouth bass central N America 1948 [1874] FS largemouth bass central N America 1948 [1891] (1890) FS striped bass St Lawrence River to Louisiana 1879 FS golden shiner central & e N America 1964 [1891] FS bigscale logperch Louisiana to New Mexico 1972-73 [1953] A G fathead minnow central N America 1950s [1953-59] FS white crappie midw & se U S 1951 [1917] (1890) FS black crappie midw & se U S 1908 [1908] (1890) FS shimofuri goby Japan 1985 BW chameleon goby Japan, China, Siberia 1962 [1960] BW,SF bullfrog pond slider muskrat e N America se U S e N America 1989 [1910-20] 1989 1943 [1921-22*] RI,RR RI GS

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CHAPTER 4. CRYPTOGENIC SPECIES IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY

Numerous species of marine plants and animals occur in the San Francisco Estuary whose status as introduced or native organisms remains unknown. These taxa are known as cryptogenic species (Carlton, 1995). We list here examples of 123 such taxa (Table 2). Many additional unidentified or taxonomically unresolved marine protists and smaller invertebrates exist in the Bay's estuarine margins as well and are not treated here. These include, in particular, roundworms (nematodes), flatworms (turbellarians), rotifers, harpacticoid copepods, and many species of planktonic and benthic ciliate protozoans. These unidentified taxa (representing at least an additional 25 distinct morphological entities), including members of groups also commonly occurring on oyster shells and in ballast water, are often found abundantly amidst communities dominated by species recognized as introduced. Most of the species listed in Table 2 represent one or more of the following categories: 1) Species frequently reported from fouling communities or planktonic assemblages in many cool- to warm-temperate harbors and ports around the world and which represent taxa easily transported with oysters, in ship fouling, in solid ship ballast, in ballast water, or by other means. 2) Species whose estuarine populations may represent a different species from populations occurring on outer, high-energy, full marine coasts that bear the same name. 3) Species believed to have appeared relatively recently in the Estuary. 4) Species symbiotic with known introduced species. The taxonomy and distribution of the taxa listed as cryptogenic usually remain sufficiently unresolved as to prevent a clear resolution of their endemic versus exotic status without further data. In some cases, a species name is available; in other cases, only generic assignments are possible but enough evidence is at hand to question whether the taxon can automatically be considered native. In a number of cases (e. g. diatoms and other phytoplankters; hydroids) we have chosen examples of genera within which one or more (and sometimes many) species have been reported from the Estuary that represent cosmopolitan taxa potentially transported by human dispersal vectors and whose aboriginal history in the Eastern Pacific has not yet been worked out. It is worth noting that cosmopolitan species represent one of three biogeographic categories: (1) a single species with truly broad and/or disjunct distributions achieved by natural means, (2) a single species spread by human-mediated transport, or (3) multiple species described as a single species. Combinations of these categories may complicate this trichotomy. Thus, one or more species may be spread globally by a mixture of natural and human-mediated mechanisms, creating a complex intermingling of pure and hybrid populations which are then described as a single cosmopolitan species. The importance of recognizing cryptogenic species in elucidating potentially profound changes to the environment is discussed in Chapter 6. As noted there, no introduced diatoms, dinoflagellates, or other phytoplankters (such as chlorophyceaens, chrysophyceaens, cryptophyceaens, or cyanophyceaens) have been recognized from the Bay, despite a reported flora that includes many cosmopolitan taxa.

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Prominent cryptogenic guilds in the Bay include phytoplankton (25 percent), annelid worms (19 percent), protozoans (15 percent), and cnidarians and crustaceans (about 10 percent each).

Table 2. Cryptogenic Species in the San Francisco Estuary Names of genera listed without species indicate at least one cryptogenic species. Names of genera followed by "spp." indicate at least two cryptogenic species. [+] indicates San Francisco Bay populations, distinguished from open coast populations bearing the same name

MICROALGAE
Bacillariophyceae (Diatoms) Achnanthes Asterionella Aulacoseira (= Melosira) spp. (including A. distans var. lirata and A. granulata) Biddulphia spp. Chaetoceros spp. Coscinodiscus spp. Cyclotella spp. (including C. caspia) Navicula spp. Nitzschia Pleurosigma Rhizosolenia Skeletonema (including S. costatum [+]) Thalassiosira (including T. decipiens) Thalassiothrix Dinophyceae (Dinoflagellates) Dinophysis Gonyaulax spp. Gymnodinium Protoperidinium spp. Chlorophyceae Monoraphidium Scenedesmus Cryptophyceae (Microflagellates) Chroomonas minuta Cryptomonas Cyanophyceae (Blue-Green Algae) Anabaena Oscillatoria

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Table 2. Cryptogenic Species - continued

MACROALGAE (Seaweeds)
Chlorophyta (Green Algae) Cladophora Enteromorpha "intestinalis" [+] Enteromorpha spp. Ulothrix Ulva "lactuca" [+] Rhodophyta (Red Algae) Gigartina sp. Gracilaria verrucosa Grateloupia doryphora

VASCULAR PLANTS
Dicotyledones Myriophyllum sibiricum Polygonum amphibium

PROTOZOANS (examples only)

Epizoic or endozoic ciliates Acineta sp. (on the introduced gribble isopod Limnoria) Ancistrumina kofoidi (in the introduced clam Petricolaria) Ciliate A (in the introduced shipworm Teredo navalis) Ciliate B (in the introduced shipworm Teredo navalis) Ciliate S1 (on the introduced isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum) Ciliate S2 (on the introduced isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum) Cochliophilus depressus (in the introduced snail Ovatella) Cochliophilus minor (in the introduced snail Ovatella) Epistylis sp. (on the introduced gribble isopod Limnoria) Opercularia sp. (on the introduced gribble isopod Limnoria) Vorticella spp. (on the introduced gribble isopod Limnoria) Fouling ciliates Suctorian sp. A Vorticella sp. Zoothamnium spp. Free-living Benthic/Fouling ciliates Spirorhynchus verrucosus Planktonic holotrich ciliates Mesodinium rubrum Foraminifera Ammobaculites exiguus Milammina fusca

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Table 2. Cryptogenic Species - continued

INVERTEBRATES
Porifera Scypha sp. Rotifera Synchaeta bicornis Cnidaria Hydrozoa (examples only) Bougainvillia ramosa Campanularia Clytia Cryptolaria pulchella Gonothyraea Plumularia Sarsia spp. Sertularella Sertularia Syncoryne eximia Anthozoa Nematostella vectensis Metridium senile [+] Platyhelminthes Trematoda Austrobilharzia variglandis Turbellaria Childia groenlandica Nemertea Lineus ruber Annelida Oligochaeta Aulodrilus limnobius Bothrioneurum vejdovskyanum Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Limnodrilus udekemianus Polychaeta Capitella s p p . Cirratulidae, unidentified species ("Tharyx parvus" of Bay authors) Ctenodrilus "serratus" Eteone californica/Eteone longa complex [+] Euchone limnicola Exogone "lourei" Fabricia sp. Glycera dibranchiata [+] Glycinde sp. Harmothoe imbricata [+] Nereis virens [+]

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Table 2. Cryptogenic Species - continued Polychaeta - continued Ophryotrocha puerilis Polydora socialis Prionospio pinnata [+] Pygospio elegans [+] Spiophanes "bombyx" [+] Spirorbidae, unidentified species Typosyllis sp. Arthropoda: Crustacea Copepoda Eurytemora affinis Notodelphyoid species (commensal in the introduced seasquirt Molgula) Cumacea Cumella vulgaris [+], in part: estuarine populations Tanaidacea Leptochelia dubia Amphipoda Caprella "equilibra" [+] Caprella "penantis" [+] Grandifoxus grandis ( = Paraphoxus milleri of San Francisco Bay authors) Hyale sp. Ischyroceridae, unidentified species Listriella s p . Photis sp. Synchelidium sp. Arthropoda: Insecta Prokelisia marginata (on the introduced cordgrass Spartina alterniflora) Bryozoa Alcyonidium parasiticum Aspidelectra sp. (?) Conopeum reticulum Electra crustulenta [+], in part: estuarine populations Membranipora sp. (?) Smittoidea sp. Chordata: Tunicata Botryllus "tuberatus" [+] Didemnum sp.

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CHAPTER 5. RESULTS (A) TAXONOMIC GROUPS OF INTRODUCED SPECIES

In all, we documented 212 species of introduced organisms in the Estuary. The numbers of species per taxonomic group are presented in Figures 2 and 3 at lower and higher levels of aggregation. Invertebrates are the most common major group of introduced species, accounting for nearly 70% of the total, followed by vertebrates and plants with respectively about 15 and 12 percent of the total. The most abundant invertebrates were the arthropods (36% of invertebrates) followed by molluscs (20%), annelids (14%) and cnidarians (12%). Nearly all the vertebrates were fish, and most of the plants were vascular plants, which were about evenly split between monocots and dicots. These numbers are generally in accord with our expectations prior to this study, based upon our knowledge of the Estuary's biota and consideration of other regional reviews of introduced marine and aquatic species, with the exception of the number of species of vascular plants, which we had anticipated would be higher. This result is in part due to our application of relatively more restrictive criteria for the inclusion of marsh-edge plants, as discussed in Chapter 2.

Figure 2. Invasions by Taxonomic Group: Lower-level Aggregation

60

53

Number of species

50 40 30 30 21 20 10 0 Seaweeds Annelida Amphibians Entoprocta Tunicata Bryozoa Porifera Fish Protozoans Arthropoda Mammals Vascular Plants Mollusca Reptiles Cnidaria 5 8 5 17 11 2 8 1 1 1 21 28

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For example, a study of introduced species in the Great Lakes using less restrictive criteria produced a list of 139 introduced species of which 59 species (42%)were vascular plants (Mills et al., 1993), and a similar study of the Hudson River produced a list of 154 introduced species with 97 (63%) vascular plants (Mills et al., 1995). As suggested in the "Methods" section, adding the plants in Appendix 1 (essentially terrestrial plants that have been reported in or at the edge of the tidal waters of the Estuary) to the list of organisms in Table 1 produces a list of introduced species that can more reasonably be compared to the Great Lakes and Hudson River lists. This expanded list for the Estuary contains 240 introduced species of which 49 (20%) are vascular plants. These three and one other study are compared in Appendix 5.

Figure 3. Invasions by Taxonomic Group: Higher-Level Aggregation

160 140 147

Number of species

120 100 80 60 40 20 0 Plants Invertebrates Vertebrates Protozoans 26 8 31

(B) NATIVE REGIONS OF INTRODUCED SPECIES

The numbers of species per native region are presented in Figure 4. Species were treated as either marine or continental species, as shown in Table 3, for assignment to appropriate regions. No introduced species were identified from the marine regions of the Eastern South Atlantic, the Western South Atlantic or the Eastern North Pacific, or from the continental region of Australia/New Zealand, so these regions do not appear in Figure 4. The Estuary's marine introductions are dominated by species from the Western North Atlantic (accounting for 41% of all marine introductions), the Western North Pacific (33%) and the Eastern North Atlantic (15%). The Western North Atlantic provided mainly mollusks, arthropods and annelids, the Western North Pacific predominantly arthropods, followed by annelids, and the Eastern North Atlantic provided a few species from each of several groups. The Estuary's continental introductions are dominated by species from North America (54% of continental introductions; mainly fish) and Eurasia (29%, mainly plants).

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Table 3. Treatment of Introduced Species as Marine or Continental, for Analysis by Native Region

PLANTS
Seaweeds Vascular Plants Spartina spp. all other vascular plants marine marine continental marine

PROTOZOANS INVERTEBRATES
Annelida Oligochaeta Branchiura sowerbyi Limnodrilus monothecus Paranais frici Potamothrix bavaricus Tubificoides spp. Varichaetadrilus angustipenis Polychaeta Manayunkia speciosa all other polychaetes Mollusca Cipangopaludina chinensis malleata Melanoides tuberculata Corbicula fluminea all other molluscs Arthropoda: Crustacea crayfish all other crustaceans Arthropoda: Insecta Anisolabis maritima Neochetina spp. Trigonotylus uhleri Entoprocta Barentsia benedeni Urnatella gracilis all other invertebrates

continental marine marine continental marine continental continental marine continental continental continental marine continental marine marine continental marine marine continental marine

VERTEBRATES
Fish gobies marine Alosa sapidissima Morone saxatilis all other fish all other vertebrates marine marine continental continental

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Figure 4. Invasions by Native Region

50.0

47.0

40.0

37.5

Number of species

30.5 30.0

20.0

17.0

16.5

10.0 4.5 1.5 0.0 Caspian & Black Seas 1.5 1.0 4.0

7.0 2.0

South America

Western North Atlantic

Western South Pacific

Eastern North Atlantic

Western North Pacific

Eastern South Pacific

Indian Ocean

(C) TIMING OF INTRODUCTIONS

Analyses of the timing of introductions, done with the intent to distinguish pulses or patterns of invasions, are fraught with difficulties. In the San Francisco Estuary, as everywhere, larger and more conspicuous species (such as certain crabs, fish, and mollusks) tend to be noticed relatively soon after their arrival, while smaller and more cryptic organisms may be present but remain unnoticed for scores of years until the arrival of an appropriately specialized biologist. For example, the Bay's mud-

Mediterranean Sea

North America

Eurasia

Africa

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dwelling worms received little attention until Olga Hartman began sampling in the Bay in the 1930s, and thus some of the polychaetes derived from the Atlantic might well have been introduced (with Atlantic oysters) as early as the 1870s. The biases introduced by taxonomist-dependent records of arrival are not limited to the earlier part of this century. With enough effort from appropriate taxonomic experts, many species of tiny introduced organismssuch as protozoans, nematodes, flatworms and so forthcould certainly be collected today and identified from San Francisco Bay for the first time, although they may have been in the Estuary for 100 or more years. Given these challenges, we have, as noted in Chapter 2, excluded from our tabulations of the temporal patterns of introductions both those species whose only available dates of first record are the first written accounts, and those species for which the date of first record seems a clear artifact of the arrival or participation of an interested taxonomist (e. g. Olga Hartman in the 1930s (polychaetes), Eugene Kozloff in the 1940s (symbiotic protozoans), Willard Hartman in the 1950s (sponges), and Ralph Brinkhurst in the 1960s (oligochaetes)), or an artifact of an especially focused sampling effort (e. g. the Albatross survey of 1912-23, and our survey of Bay fouling communities in 1993-95), or simply the fortuitous discovery of a species in a restricted habitat or locality (such as Transorchestia enigmatica, known only from the shore of Lake Merritt, and Littorina saxatilis, known only from ten meters of cobbly beach in the Emeryville Marina), and whose inclusion would provide a misleading view of the invasion history of the Estuary. These species are marked with an asterisk (*) in Table 1. The dates of first record were tabulated in five time periods (four 30-year periods and one 26-year period) beginning in 1850. Tabulations of the dates of first record in the Estuary are shown in Figure 5, and of the dates of first record in the northeastern Pacific region in Figure 6. The results show a clear trend toward more first records in more recent periods. Over 40% of the first records of introductions in the Estuary date from 1970 or later, and over 63% from 1940 or later. Since the first records for the northeastern Pacific are inclusive of the records for the Estuary, they necessarily average somewhat earlier; nevertheless, 51% still date from 1940 or later. Some of these results should be interpreted with caution. The dates of arrival must of course precede the dates of first record, by an unknown but possibly significant average period. And although we have excluded records that would cause a specific and obvious temporal bias, there might exist a general bias toward increasing numbers of first records, which could be caused by such changes as an increase in sampling effort, by the development of improved techniques for sampling and sorting, by a general increase in taxonomic knowledge, by an increased availability and improvement of keys and other identification tools, or by other changes. On the other hand, several factors in the analysis create a bias toward a lower number of first records in the most recent period relative to earlier periods. The length of the most recent period is a little under 26 years long, compared to 30 years for the earlier periods. Extrapolating to 30 years at the same rate of production of first records as has prevailed in the period so far would add another 9 species to the recent period's tally for the Estuary, and 7 species to the tally for the northeastern Pacific. While a substantial number of first records were excluded (for the reasons discussed above) from the third, fourth and fifth periods, virtually none were excluded from the first two periods.

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Some organisms collected in the most recent period but excluded from the list of introductions because of inadequate evidence to determine whether they are established (see Table 8) will probably, with the passage of time, be recognized as established.

Figure 5. Invasions into the San Francisco Estuary by Period

60.00 50.00 56.33 60.00 50.00

Figure 6. Invasions into the Northeastern Pacific by Period

Number of species

40.00 30.00 20.00 20.00 10.00 0.00 1850-1879 1880-1909 1910-1939 14.00 17.00

Number of species

42.33 40.00 30.00 20.00 10.00 0.00 1850-1879 27.17 35.50 24.00 23.00

32.67

1940-1969

1970-1995

1880-1909

1910-1939

1940-1969

With the passage of time, the taxonomic problems that bar the listing of some species will be resolved. There appear to be a substantial number of species that were only recently recorded from the Estuary that fall into this category. Taking these factors into account, it appears that the data signal a substantial pulse of invasions detected in the Estuary since 1970. The overall rate of introductions to the Estuary (212 species between 1850 and 1995) averages one new species established every 36 weeks. In the period since 1970, the dates of first record indicate a rate of one new species every 24 weeks (even after excluding one-third of the 212 documented introductions from the analysis, for reasons discussed above).

1970-1995

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(D) MECHANISMS OF INTRODUCTION

Carlton (1994) presented a tabular overview of global dispersal mechanisms by human agencies in five broad categories: (1) Vessels; (2) Aquaculture, Fisheries, and Aquarium Industries; (3) Other Commercial, Government, and Private Activities; (4) Scientific Research; and (5) Canals. These have been reviewed in detail by Carlton (1979a, 1979b, 1985, 1987, 1992a) and by Carlton et al. (1995). Our data indicate that all of these mechanisms except for canals have served to transport non-native species to the San Francisco Bay area. Within these categories, twelve mechanisms (Table 1) and their approximate time of initiation relative to human-mediated invasions of the San Francisco Estuary are summarize here (a thirteenth mechanism, "gradual spread," accounts for the arrival of a number of species, including muskrats, purple loosestrife, and watercress, all in the 20th century, that spread either naturally, by human activities, or both, from eastern to western North America). We focus here primarily on those mechanisms that serve to transport new species to the northeastern Pacific, rather than on intraregional vectors. The latter may include, for example, the intentional movement of fish between watersheds by members of the public with the intent of establishing new populations for sport fisheries or pest control (such as the mosquitofish Gambusia); the accidental movement of invertebrates in river gravels dredged for use as aggregate for concrete (such as the Asian clam Corbicula), and the spreading of organisms by dredging activity (such as the cordgrass Spartina alterniflora). No studies are available on the scale or role of these within-system vectors. We note later that such work would be of great value in terms of both understanding dispersal potential and dispersal histories and in establishing management policies. 1. VESSELS (a) In ship fouling or boring into wooden hulls (SF) The transport of marine organisms to San Francisco Bay by ships has been theoretically possible since the 16th century, when ships either traveling along the coast and passing by the entrance to the Bay, or making landfall on the shores of the gulf outside the Bay, could have released organisms that made their way into the Bay. Thus, for example, Carlton & Hodder (1995) have shown that vessels passing the California coast in the 1570s could have released larvae-laden hydroid polyps that could have drifted into the Bay. The first ship known to actually enter the Bay was the San Carlos, on August 5, 1775 (Galvin, 1971). By the turn of the 18th century a number of ships from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans had entered the Bay (Kemble, 1957). After 1849, international shipping to the Bay picked up dramatically due to a combination of the California Gold Rush, the increased export of lumber, grain, minerals, furs, hides, and other products from the rapidly developing industries of central California, and increased colonization and industrialization in general. Kemble (1957) reviews the general maritime history of the Bay area.

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Figure 7. Invasions by Type of Transport Mechanism

60.00 50.00 48.18 54.68

Number of species

40.00 30.75 30.00 19.50 20.00 10.00 0.00 AG BC BW FS GS MR OA OJ RI RR SB SF SW 5.50 4.00 8.83 3.50 3.00 1.75 15.50 7.08 1.75

Little is known of the modern role of ship fouling in transporting marine animals and plants into San Francisco Bay, although there is evidence that this mechanism could assume an increasingly higher profile due to the decreasing use (for environmental reasons) globally of effective antifouling paints (such as those including tributyltins (TBTs)) (A. Taylor, BHP Inc., Australia, pers. comm., 1995). The earliest clear records of ship fouling-mediated introductions (though not recognized as such at the time) are the collections of several North Atlantic fouling organisms in San Francisco Bay between 1853 and 1860: the barnacle Balanus improvisus (1853), the hydroid Tubularia crocea (1859) and the hydroid Sarsia tubulosa (1860) (Table 1). Approximately 26 percent of Bay invasions (55 species) have arrived by ship fouling and boring (Figure 7). (b) In solid ballast (rocks, sand, etc.) carried in a ship's hold (SB) No history of the release of ships' solid ballast into the Bay Area is available. It presumably parallels the general history of shipping into the Bay, but source regions for rock and sand ballast, amounts released, and so forth remain to be investigated. That rock and sand ballast may have played an early role is suggested by the appearance of the South African shore plant brass buttons (Cotula coronopifolia) and the Atlantic marsh snail Ovatella myosotis in the Bay in the 1870s (Table 1). Another example of such activity was the release of ballast derived from Chilean port regions (such as Iquique and Valparaiso) into the Oakland Estuary up until about the 1920s, a transport vector that may have led to the introduction of the southern hemisphere beach hopper Transorchestia into nearby Lake Merritt. About 3 percent of Bay invasions (7 species) are linked to this mechanism (Figure 7). It is probable that this is an underestimate, and that with further studies more species (especially among non-crustacean arthropods, such as coastal insects and spiders) will be found to have been ballast-transported, similar to the studies of Lindroth (1957) on North Atlantic beetles.

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(c) In ballast water or in a ship's seawater system (BW) Ballast water may have been released into San Francisco Bay as early as the 1880s-1890s, but, as with solid ballast, the early history of ballast water in the Estuary remains to be studied. Of particular interest would be data on the timing of increased pulses of ballast water release into the Estuary. Modern ballast patterns for selected ports within San Francisco Bay have been investigated by Carlton et al. (1995). In the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco alone there were more than 2,000 arrivals of bulk cargo vessels and petroleum product tankers in 1991. "Acknowledged" ballast water released from those vessels in these two ports exceeded 130,000 metric tons (approximately 34,000,000 gallons) of water. "Unacknowledged" ballast water (water that is on board but not recorded because the vessel is classified as being "in cargo" rather than "in ballast") arriving in these two ports is estimated at approximately an additional 130,000 metric tons (34,000,000 gallons) (Carlton et al., 1995). Thus, more than 68 million gallons of ballast water per year are released by bulkers and tankers alone in the Central Bay area. Additional ports in the Bay system receiving large volumes of water include Sacramento and Stockton. In 1991 the Ports of Oakland and San Francisco primarily received shipping from other North Pacific ports. Shipping from Asia accounted for 26 percent of ship arrivals in San Francisco and 48 percent in Oakland. Ships (and thus water) also arrived from Central Pacific and South Pacific ports and, to a smaller extent, from the Atlantic and Indian oceans (Carlton et al., 1995). While some species may have been brought to the Estuary in the first half of the 20th century by ballast water (Table 1), the first reasonably unambiguous signal of the role of ballast water was the arrival of two Asian species, the shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus (first collected in 1957) and the Japanese goby Tridentiger trigonocephalus (first collected in 1962). The arrival of both may have been associated with increased transpacific shipping related to the Korean War. Twenty-three percent (48 species) of the Estuary's nonindigenous species are now linked to ballast water transport, with a greatly increasing number of these apparently having arrived since the 1960s (Figure 5). The pulse of recent ballast invaders into the Estuary is particularly evident in the discovery, since the 1970s, of 15 species of small Asian crustaceans (copepods, one cumacean, one isopod, 3 mysids, and 2 amphipods), and, since the 1980s, of two Asian clams (Potamocorbula and Theora), one Japanese fish (Tridentiger bifasciatus), and a New Zealand carnivorous sea slug (Philine). The appearance of the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in the Bay may also be linked to ballast water (but see mechanism 11, below).

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2. FISHERIES, MARSH RESTORATION AND BIOCONTROL ACTIVITIES (a) Shipments of Atlantic oysters (Crassostrea virginica) (OA) and Pacific (Japanese) oysters (Crassostrea gigas) (OJ) The first Atlantic oysters were planted in San Francisco Bay in 1869, the year of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad. Early shipments were largely from New York and New Jersey and occasionally from Chesapeake Bay. The industry grew and flourished in the 1890s, tapering off sharply after 1900 (for reasons variously cited as increases in pollution and changes in the Bay's hydrology and flushing dynamics; see Carlton, 1979a). The last oyster seed shipments occurred about 1910, and adult oysters continued to be received for holding in the Bay until the 1930s. Barrett (1963) and Carlton (1979a) review the history of Atlantic oystering in the Bay in detail. The first Japanese oysters were planted out in the Bay in 1932, with plantings continuing until 1939. Occasional plantings for "experimental" purposes were started in the 1950s. Carlton (1979a) reviews this brief and little-known history. The "signal" of Atlantic oystering in terms of invasions occurred early, with the appearance of the common Atlantic soft-shelled clam Mya arenaria in the Bay by 1874 (it was, oddly enough, not recognized as such, and described as a new species!). The Atlantic marsh snail Ovatella may have also arrived with oysters, if not with ship's ballast, at this time. Coincident, however, with the greatly increased pulse of plantings in the 1890s of Atlantic oysters was the appearance in the Bay of a variety of wellknown East Coast clams and snails, including the oyster drill Urosalpinx (1890), the tiny gem clam Gemma (1893), the marsh mussel Arcuatula (=Ischadium) demissa (1894), two species of slipper limpets Crepidula convexa and plana (1898, 1901) and the mudsnail Ilyanassa (1907). Similarly, the Atlantic shell-boring sponge Cliona (1891) and the common Atlantic pileworm Nereis succinea (1896) had been recorded by this time. Thirty species representing about 15% of the introduced biota are now recognized as originating from Atlantic oystering activity. In concert with the much lower level of Japanese oystering in the Bay, only a few species in the Bay are recognized as having arrived with this industry. After the pulse of 1930 plantings, the Japanese mussel Musculista (1946) and the Japanese clam Venerupis philippinarum (=Tapes japonica) (1946) were collected in the Bay. The immediate role of Japanese oystering in transporting other species is not as clear, as many candidate taxa may also have entered the Bay by ship fouling or other means (Table 1). The Japanese brown seaweed Sargassum muticum, while apparently introduced to the Pacific coast by Japanese oystering, may have entered the Bay as drift seaweed from elsewhere on the coast or, even more likely, as fouling on coastal ship traffic. The Japanese parasitic copepod Mytilicola may similarly have been transported into the Bay in mussels in ship fouling from more northern stations. About 4 percent of the Bay's invasions are linked to Japanese oystering (Figure 5).

(b) Fish or shellfish stocked by the government to establish or support a fishery (FS) We review the early attempts to move Eastern fish West, facilitated by the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad, in Chapter 3. American shad, white catfish, several species of bullhead, and striped bass were all successfully transported, released, and established in the Bay commencing in the 1870s. Intentional fish stocking by

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government agencies of freshwater and estuarine fish into California and the Bay region has continued to varying degrees throughout the 20th century (see discussions in Chapter 3). Nineteen species (9 percent) of the exotic biota owe their origins to this mechanism.

(c) Plantings for marsh restoration or erosion control (MR) Plantings either for marsh restoration or possibly for erosion control were involved in the introduction of four species of the cordgrass Spartina in the Bay in the 1960s and 1970s. One was planted in Washington state, and then transplanted from there to San Francisco Bay; another was likely introduced to Washington in solid ballast, and later independently introduced to the Bay from the Atlantic coast for marsh restoration; the third was introduced to Humboldt Bay in solid ballast, then transplanted to San Francisco Bay; the fourth, first reported in the Bay in 1968, presumably arrived with an undocumented restoration or erosion control project (Chapter 3). As we based our analysis on the mechanisms that brought to the northeastern Pacific the stocks of organisms introduced to the Estuary, we counted three of these cordgrasses as introduced via marsh restoration or erosion control (1.4% of the exotic biota), and one via solid ballast.

(d) Accidental release by the government with fish stocks or marsh restoration (AG) Accidental releases of plants, fish, and invertebrates through stocking and planting programs began to be detected in the 1950s in the Bay region, although these may have occurred much earlier. Thus the rainwater killifish Lucania parva appeared in 1958 on the Bay's margins, apparently having been released accidentally with shipments of other fish in more eastern localities. The green sunfish and bigscale logperch, as well as the curly-leaf pondweed, are additional accidental releases. Less than 3 percent of the Estuary's invaders come under this category.

(e) Seaweed packing for live baitworms and lobsters (SW) Miller (1969) first described this mechanism (focusing on lobster packing) as an active vector for transporting northwestern Atlantic marine organisms to San Francisco Bay. As discussed in Chapter 3 (under the periwinkle Littorina saxatilis), this mechanism continues vigorously today. Large quantities of Atlantic bait worms, and with them as packing material Atlantic rocky shore seaweeds (mainly Ascophyllum nodosum), are airshipped weekly to sport-fishing supply stores in the Bay Area. Investigations in progress (Lau, 1995; Cohen, Lau & Carlton, in prep.) reveal that these seaweeds support large numbers of living Atlantic coast invertebrates, including mollusks, worms, crustaceans, and insects, which are routinely released into the Bay by anglers. The apparently recent appearance of the Atlantic red alga Callithamnion in the Bay, the establishment of a population of the Atlantic periwinkle Littorina saxatilis, and perhaps even the appearance of the Atlantic green crab Carcinus maenas may be linked to this active and unregulated flow of New England rocky shore organisms to the Bay. To date, less than one percent of the Estuary's invaders are clearly linked to this

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mechanism, but the occasional appearance of other species not yet known to be established (such as the Atlantic periwinkle Littorina littorea; Table 8) and the continual release of living seaweeds in the Bay which could themselves become established (for example, Ascophyllum nodosum has now gained a foothold in the Hood Canal, Puget Sound; L. Goff, pers. comm., 1992), predictably herald the imminent establishment of yet additional Atlantic species.

(f) Biocontrol releases (BC) Invertebrates and fish released for biocontrol in the Bay region have been few, although the release of muskellunge and sea lions in San Francisco's Lake Merced to control introduced carp is a noteworthy incident in the history of human attempts at biocontrol (Chapter 2). Two South American weevils (Neochetina spp.) were released in the 1980s for water hyacinth control; these became established but appear to have had little impact on these weeds (Chapter 3). An early introduction (1922) to the state was the mosquitofish Gambusia affinis which arrived on Bay shores at least by the 1960s if not much earlier. The inland silversides Menidia beryllina, brought to the state for gnat and midge control in 1967, soon entered (1971) Bay waters. These four species represent about two percent of the Estuary's exotic biota. 3. OTHER COMMERCIAL AND PRIVATE ACTIVITIES (a) Releases by an individual, whether intentional or accidental (RI) Under this mechanism we include non-government releases to establish food resources (the snail Cipangopaludina, the clam Corbicula, the crayfish Procambarus clarkii, carp, bullfrog, and perhaps the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis and the pond slider turtle); releases or escapes from residential ponds and aquariums (plants (and oligochaete worms with them), possibly the snail Melanoides, goldfish, carp, and the turtle); escapes from commercial breeding or rearing ponds (crayfish, carp, bullfrog) and discards of market goods (the snail Cipangopaludina again). Fifteen species representing 7 percent of the introduced biota have been linked to this mechanism according to our data. With the possible exception of carp, water hyacinth and Cipangopaludina, these have all been 20th century activities. 4. SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH (a) Releases as a result of research activities, whether intentional or accidental (RR) Scientific research efforts have resulted in relatively few introductions to the Estuary. The bullfrog and the virile crayfish both owe their establishment, at least in part, to releases from educational and research institutions in the last half of this century. The green crab Carcinus maenas, as noted below, may be a further and more recent example of this vector. Less than one percent of the Estuaries nonindigenous biota has arrived via this mechanism.

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The complexities and challenges in analyzing and properly weighting these many transport vectors, in terms of both developing an historical perspective and establishing effective management options, is illustrated by the many species in Table 1 for which multiple transport vectors can be assigned. The recent appearance of the Atlantic green crab Carcinus maenas in San Francisco Bay is a superb illustration of the analytical and managerial hurdles involved. The green crab could have arrived by at least four different mechanisms (Cohen et al., 1995), whose relative likelihood is difficult to estimate. As discussed in Chapter 3, it may have arrived in ballast water from any of several different source regions (Atlantic America, Australia, Europe or South Africa, with the first two perhaps more likely based on shipping patterns); via seaweed released from the bait worm industry; via active release from a school or research aquarium; or via a ship's sea chest or seawater pipe system. Clearly, the control of future invasions hinges on a clearer and more detailed resolution of which mechanism served to introduce Carcinus to the Bay. Recent collections in the Estuary of the Atlantic amphipod Gammarus daiberi (1983), the Atlantic worm Marenzelleria viridis (1991) and the Atlantic snail Littorina saxatilis (1993) may point to the Atlantic as the source region for Carcinus (1989/1990), and may further suggest the modern resurgence of an active Northwest Atlantic to San Francisco Bay transport corridor.

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CHAPTER 6. DISCUSSION (A) THE ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY
Nonindigenous aquatic animals and plants have had a profound impact on the Estuary's ecosystem. No habitatwith the possible exception of the deep floor of the Central Bayremains uninvaded by exotic species, and in some habitats it is difficult to find any natives. The depth and extent of biological invasions now recognized for the Estuary is greater than for any other aquatic ecosystem in North America, a phenomenon which apparently results from a combination of factors, including: 150 years of intense human commercial activity involving both the frequent disturbance and alteration of the ecosystem and the importation of nonindigenous organisms (Nichols et al. 1986), the prior geological and ecological history of the Bay, and the amount of research into biological invasions in this system. Despite the intensity of research effort our understanding of the ecological and biological consequences of the estuary's nonindigenous biota, in terms of both the individual and the collective impacts of many species, remains strikingly limited. A brief survey of the estuary reveals the scale of dominance by the nonindigenous biota. At the Bay's mouth, under the shadow of the Golden Gate Bridge, orange-red clumps of the Indo-Pacific bryozoan Watersipora, 30 centimeters across and 20 centimeters deep, covers the dock sides. To the north, in San Pablo and Suisun bays, the Chinese clam Potamocorbula forms thick beds in the mud while Japanese gobies and Korean shrimp swim overhead. In a brackish river a few kilometers distant large, corallike masses formed from the calcareous tubes of an Australian serpulid worm harbor an abundant population of the Atlantic shore crab Rhithropanopeus. Upstream in the Delta a Eurasian freshwater hydroid forms thick colonies on ropes and marina floats. Swimming nearby may be any of several warmwater gamefish native to eastern North America, including six species of catfish, four species of sunfish and four species of bass. Along the eastern and southern Bay shores, great masses of Atlantic and Asian seasquirts comprise the dominant fouling biota along with dense populations of bay mussels, represented in San Francisco Bay by both the native Mytilus trossulus and the Mediterranean Mytilus galloprovincialis. On the fringes of the Bay, dense beds of the New England ribbed mussel bind the upper intertidal sediments and lower marsh fringes, clonal colonies of the Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora encroach upon the mudflats, and a New Zealand burrowing isopod inexorably bores into the clay and mud banks of the Bay's shore. Moving in seasonal migrations over the mudflats, vast herds of the Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa rework the uppermost layers of sediment above the subsurface beds of the Atlantic softshell clam and the Japanese littleneck clam. With seasonal changes, with dramatic interannual variation in the amount of freshwater runoff or saltwater intrusion, with the discharge of point-source or diffuse pollutants, and with many other variables, these associations of introduced species may shift significantly, but the overall aspect remains the same: the dominant members of many of the Bay and Delta aquatic communities are organisms that were not present 150 years ago.

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Considered here are the ecological and biological impacts that have been caused by the introduction of nonindigenous animals and plants into the marine, brackish, and freshwater environments of the Bay and Delta region. We review examples of communities in which introduced species are the dominant members, both in terms of diversity and biomass, consider trophic changes in the Bay as a result of invasions, and then consider additional community-level and habitat changes that have occurred. We conclude with prospects for future invasions. 1. ASSOCIATIONS OF NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES In some regions of the Estuary, 100% of the common species are introduced. As Carlton (1975, 1979a, 1979b), Nichols & Thompson (1985a,b) and Nichols & Pamatmat (1988) have noted, the shallow-water benthos of San Francisco Bay is dominated by nonindigenous speciesindeed, Nichols & Thompson (1985b) have used the phrase, "introduced mudflat community" in reference to South San Francisco Bay. Nichols and Pamatmat (1988), in describing the Bay's soft-bottom benthic communities, state that: "The principal contributors to biomass throughout much of the bay are the mollusks Tapes [now Venerupis] philippinarum, Musculista senhousia, Macoma balthica [now petalum], Mya arenaria, Gemma gemma, and Ilyanassa obsoleta. In addition, the large tube-dwelling polychaete Asychis [now Sabaco] elongata is a major contributor to total biomass in the muddy subtidal areas of South Bay...[Since 1987] the Asian bivalve, Potamocorbula amurensis...has become the dominant macroinvertebrate throughout the northern portions of the bay and is found in South Bay sloughs as well." Each of these species is introduced to San Francisco Bay, arriving in the following approximate sequence:
Time of First Observation (O) or Hypothesized Arrival (H) Introduced with Atlantic Oysters Atlantic soft-shell clam Mya Atlantic tellinid clam Macoma Atlantic gem clam Gemma Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa Atlantic bamboo worm Sabaco Introduced with Japanese Oysters Japanese mussel Musculista Japanese clam Venerupis Introduced with Ballast Water Chinese clam Potamocorbula early 1870s (O) 1870s-1890s (H) before 1893 (O) before 1907 (O) after 1912 (H) before 1946 (O) before 1946 (O) before 1986 (O)

Although these nonindigenous species dominated the intertidal and subtidal mudflat communities, many other species of mollusks, crustaceans, polychaetes, and other invertebrates were added to the Bay's soft-bottom communities during these periods as well (Table 1). Each new addition or set of additions presumably altered the previously-existing community, in ways that may have prevented or facilitated the invasion of the next introduced species. While these "successional" concepts of the roles

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of inhibition or facilitation by preceding invaders are not well developed in invasion ecology, the assembly of these communities over a relatively long period of time, from different source regions (and thus of species that did not coevolve), may prove to be key factors in understanding the structure of invaded communities, and of which species do and do not invade. A review of several faunal studies around the Bay conducted between the 1940s and 1970s (Carlton, 1979a; Table 4, herein) demonstrates the importance of introduced species in intertidal epifaunal (on the surface), intertidal infaunal (under the surface) and fouling communities. In locations ranging from freshwater sites in the Delta through estuarine sites in the northern bays, the Central Bay and the South Bay, introduced species account for the majority of the species diversity at most sites. On South Bay mudflats, Vassallo (1969) found that the infaunal communities could be characterized in terms of introduced species: the upper intertidal was essentially a "Macoma balthica community," whereas the lower intertidal was an "Ampelisca abdita community." At some sites, 100% of the common to abundant species were found to be introduced. We discuss later in this section the question of the replacement or displacement of a native biota by these introduced species. Thus, extensive communities in the Bay are structured around introduced species: the abundant filter feeders, the abundant herbivores, the abundant detritivores, and the abundant carnivores are not native. With few exceptions, the introduced versus native status of the abundant primary producers (phytoplankton and algae) is not known, and thus the extent to which the entire food chain is constructed of invasions is not yet known. However, few, if any, of the estuarine phytoplankton or algae are clearly native. These communities are further composed of species originating from different regions of the worldspecies that evolved in the presence of other species (that did not arrive with them in San Francisco Bay) and that evolved under different environmental regimes. The extent to which these introduced species, artificially placed together in a novel environment, are undergoing coadaptation, in terms of predatorprey relationships or competitive interactions, remains unknown. The predominance of nonnative species in the Bay's communities suggest that a vast amount of energy, in terms of dissolved organic and inorganic compounds, and in terms of primary and secondary production, now pass through and are utilized by the nonindigenous biota of the Bay. We explore some of these trophic changes below, as well as the role of competition, habitat alterations, and the regional or global extirpation of native species.

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Table 4. Associations of Introduced Species in the San Francisco Estuary. The number and percentage of introduced species (excluding cryptogenic species) in selected communities. Reference [date of collections] Aldrich, 1961 Siegfried et al., 1980 [1976] Markmann, 1986 [1975-81] Nichols & Thompson, 1985a Herbold & Moyle 1989 [1983-84] Herbold & Moyle, 1989 Hymanson et al., 1984 [1980-90] Hymanson et al., 1984 [1980-90] Hymanson et al., 1984 [1980-90] Filice, 1959 Markmann, 1986 [1975-81] Nichols & Thompson, 1985a Graham & Gay, 1945 [1940-42] Carlton, 1979a [1962-72]

Location DELTA & SUISUN BAY Antioch and Bradford Sacramento River, Decker Is. to Chipps Is. Delta to Grizzly Bay Suisun Bay Grizzly Bay to Old River Delta

Number of Introduced Species 6 out of 7 (= 86%) epibenthic/fouling species are introduced. 3 out of 5 (=60%) dominant benthic species are introduced. 2 out of 4 (=50%) dominant benthic species are introduced. 4 out of 7 (=57%) common benthic species are introduced. 2 out of 5 (=40%) dominant benthic species are introduced. 26 out of 52 (=50%) fish present, and 25 of 36 (=69%) fish resident, in the Delta are introduced.

Delta: Old River, Frank's 6 out of 22 (=27%) benthic invertebrate species Tract and Sherman Lake are introduced. Sacramento River at Sherman Island Grizzly Bay SAN PABLO BAY San Pablo Bay east to the Delta Carquinez Strait San Pablo Bay shallows CENTRAL BAY Oakland Estuary Lake Merritt 10 out of 17 (=59%) benthic invertebrate species are introduced. 16 out of 19 (=84%) benthic invertebrate species are introduced. 8 out of 13 (= 62%) epifaunal species, and 16 out of 17 (= 94%) infaunal species are introduced.* 7 out of 7 (=100%) of common benthic species are introduced. 9 out of 9 (=100%) common benthic species are introduced. All 4 species (= 100%) dominant in the fouling fauna are introduced.* 31 out of 35 (= 88%) epifaunal species, and 6 out of 8 (= 75%) infaunal species are introduced.*

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Table 4. Associations of Introduced Species - continued

Location SOUTH BAY Hayward

Number of Introduced Species

Reference [date of collections] Vassallo, 1969

4 out of 5 (= 80%) upper intertidal infaunal species are introduced. The infauna is numerically dominated by the introduced clam Macoma petalum; the epifauna is numerically dominated by the introduced mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta. 7 out of 9 (= 77%) lower intertidal infaunal species are introduced. The community is numerically dominated by the introduced amphipod Ampelisca abdita.

Palo Alto South Bay channels

14 out of 14 (=100%) species of mudflat infauna and epifauna are introduced. 10 out of 10 (=100%) common benthic species in the channels, and 6 out of 6 (=100%) dominant benthic species in the shallows are introduced.

Nichols, 1977 Nichols & Thompson (1985a)

* For these calculations, all mussels reported as Mytilus edulis were assumed to be native.

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2. TROPHIC CHANGES IN THE BAY In the 1990s, introduced and cryptogenic species dominate the Estuary's food webs. We consider here trophic alterations to the Bay's ecosystem by introduced species utilizing different feeding levels and strategies: the phytoplankton, the zooplankton, water column consumers (filter feeders), epibenthic and shallow-infaunal grazers and deposit feeders, and carnivores. (a) Phytoplankton Although various mechanisms have transported and continue to transport large numbers of nonindigenous phytoplankton to the San Francisco Bay and Delta (today mainly via ballast water, but in the past including settled diatoms transported with oysters and freshwater phytoplankton in the water used to transport game fish), and researchers have identified introduced diatoms and dinoflagellates in other areas of the world (in Australia: Hallegraeff, 1993; Hallegraeff and Bolch, 1992; in Europe: Boalch, 1994; in the Great Lakes: Mills et al., 1993), none of the phytoplankton in the estuary have yet been reported as introduced species. We consider at least 31 species of phytoplankton to be cryptogenic (Table 2), which is probably only a small fraction of the total number of planktonic, benthic, and epibiotic species that have been introduced to the Bay and Delta system. The diatoms Cyclotella caspia, Coscinodiscus spp., Aulacoseira (=Melosira) spp., Aulacoseira (=Melosira) distans variety lirata, Skeletonema costatum and Thalassiosira decipiens and the microflagellate Chroomonas minuta are dominant and important members of the phytoplankton in San Francisco Bay (Cloern et al.,1985). All are broadly distributed globally and are cryptogenic species in San Francisco Bay. The diatom Aulacoseira granulata (=Melosira granulata, Round et al., 1990) has recently come to dominate phytoplankton blooms in the San Joaquin River (Herbold & Moyle, 1989). In Suisun Bay, the diatom Thalassiosira decipiens alternates between dominating the water column or the benthos, apparently depending upon the degree of water column mixing (Cloern et al., 1985; Nichols and Pamatmat, 1988). Both Aulacoseira granulata and Thalassiosira decipiens are cosmopolitan species (e.g., Cholnoky, 1968) and may well be introductions in the Bay system. While these taxa are also often reported from open-ocean systems, including upwellings, the possibility remains that these brackish water and freshwater diatoms represent estuarine genotypes transported by oysters and ships around the world, and may be distinct from the oceanic genotypes transported by ocean currents. A similar example has been provided by Greenberg (1995), who found that the estuarine populations of the jellyfish Aurelia aurita in San Francisco Bay are closely related to those from Japan (and thus probable ship-borne introductions as attached fouling scyphistomae or planktonic ephyrae), and less similar genetically to coastal populations from Monterey Bay. Thus, it remains possible that many of the estuary's major phytoplankton species, accounting for the bulk of the estuary's primary production, are in fact introduced. Resolution of these cryptogenic diatoms as native or exotic would significantly improve our understanding of the origin and structure of the Bay and Delta's food webs; and is essential to developing a correct interpretation of their

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biology and their patterns of distribution and abundance in terms of, on the one hand, adaptation to and co-evolution with the estuary's physical conditions and other biota, or on the other, opportunistic establishment and exploitation of available resources. (b) Zooplankton The planktonic secondary producers are represented by a diverse zooplankton community in San Francisco Bay. Many copepod species in San Francisco Bay are considered widespread if not cosmopolitan, and thus those susceptible to human transport mechanisms should be considered cryptogenic species. Notable in this regard, for example, are the abundant estuarine copepod Eurytemora affinis and the estuarine rotifer Synchaeta bicornis, which often characterize the zooplankton communities of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Orsi & Mecum, 1986) and whose biogeographic status remains unresolved. Eurytemora affinis in particular has been suspected of being an introduced species (Orsi, 1995). Similarly, some microplankton in the Bay are candidate cryptogenic species: the cosmopolitan estuarine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum, for example, caused red tides in South San Francisco Bay in spring 1993 (Cloern et al., 1994). While the diverse meroplanktonic larvae of the large numbers of introduced benthic invertebrates and fish must play a role in water column dynamics, no studies appear to be available on this aspect of zooplankton trophic dynamics for the Bay. Mills and Sommer (1995) have noted that the introduced hydromedusae Maeotias inexspectata and Blackfordia virginica in San Francisco Bay estuarine tributaries fed almost exclusively on barnacle larvae, copepods, and the larvae of the introduced crab Rhithropanopeus. Whether these jellyfish decrease the abundance of their prey in an ecologically significant manner remains to be determined. Maeotias and Blackfordia are two of a large number of new invasive zooplanktonic organisms that have been recorded from the estuary since the 1970s, including another hydromedusan (Cladonema uchidai), the Japanese stock of the moon jelly Aurelia aurita, eight species of Asian copepods, three species of mysids and the demersal (vertically migrating) Japanese cumacean Nippoleucon (=Hemileucon) hinumensis. The role of this new guild of often abundant Asian copepods and mysids in the upper estuary is of particular interest. Complicating both speculations and interpretations, however, are the number and interrelationships of the potential factors that control copepod abundance. Changing densities and distributions of copepods may be correlated with fluctuations in environmental parameters (such as salinity, temperature and chlorophyll concentration), predator abundance (including carnivorous zooplankton, fish and benthic filter-feeders (such as the Asian clam Potamocorbula) capable of zooplanktivory), selective predation on different copepod species, competition between copepod species (the intensity of which may be moderated by food availability), and declines in the overall abundance of zooplankton (reducing interspecific competition and making more food available). Orsi et al. (1983) speculated that competition between the Chinese copepod Sinocalanus doerri and the "native" copepod Eurytemora affinis (considered here to be cryptogenic) was not likely because they preferred different salinity regimes; rather, competition and/or predation between Sinocalanus and the presumably native freshwater copepods Cyclops and Diaptomus appeared to be more likely. Herbold et al. (1992) noted that the introduction of Sinocalanus and Pseudodiaptomus forbesii was followed by a decline in Eurytemora and almost complete elimination of Diaptomus,

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implying potential interactions between these new invaders and the previous copepod residents. Meng and Orsi (1991) further found in laboratory experiments that the larvae of striped bass (itself an introduced species) selected Cyclops and Eurytemora over Sinocalanus (perhaps because of differences in copepod swimming and escape behavior). Thus, the possibility arises that the striped bass larvae's preferred prey is being replaced by an introduced, and less preferred, prey. A further complication, however, arises when the role of the newly introduced clam Potamocorbula is considered, which involves both the consumption of phytoplankton, thereby removing a significant portion of the potential food resource for water-column zooplankton, and the consumption of the zooplankton themselves. Thus, as reviewed below, Kimmerer et al. (1994) show that the decline in Eurytemora was likely due to consumption by Potamocorbula, rather than by interspecific copepod competition. Indeed, Potamocorbula consumes Eurytemora and not Pseudodiaptomus (Kimmerer, 1991), further reducing the preferred copepod resource of striped bass larvae. (c) The Filter Feeding Guild Introduced clams can filter the entire volume of the South Bay and Suisun Bay at least once a day. A large number of nonindigenous suspension-feeding organisms are now filtering the waters of the estuary. In the intertidal and sublittoral soft-bottom sediments these include the introduced bivalves Macoma petalum (="balthica"), Venerupis, Mya, Potamocorbula, Theora, Petricolaria, Gemma, Arcuatula, Musculista and Corbicula, most of which are abundant to extremely abundant in the estuary. Introduced, suspensionfeeding polychaete worms, especially spionids, and suspension-feeding tubicolous gammarid amphipods may occur by the thousands per square meter at and near the sediment surface. Intertidal and subtidal hard substrates are often thickly-coated, sometimes several organisms deep, with dense populations of introduced macrofilterers (including the seasquirts Molgula, Styela clava, Botryllus spp., Ciona spp. and Ascidiasee Whitlatch et al., 1995, regarding the complex roles of Styela clava and Botrylloides diegensis, both introduced into Long Island Sound, in regulating community dynamics) and introduced microfilterers (including bryozoans and sponges). Introduced carnivorous suspension feeders, such as hydroids and sea anemones, can also be abundant: dense populations of the Indian Ocean hydroid Bimeria franciscana occur on floats in brackish tributaries, while the exotic sea anemone Diadumene franciscana is sometimes found in dense clonal clusters on marina floats on the southwestern shore of the Bay. Both doubtless have an impact on adjacent plankton communities. In some parts of the estuary the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and two introduced barnacles, Balanus improvisus and Balanus amphitrite, are exceedingly abundant filter-feeders on all hard substrates. We consider in detail below the role of the benthic filter-feeding bivalve guild in regulating phytoplankton production in San Francisco Bay. The holistic role of the entire nonindigenous filter-feeding guildclams, mussels, bryozoans, barnacles, amphipods, seasquirts, spionids, serpulids, sponges, hydroids, and sea anemonesin altering and controlling the trophic dynamics of the Bay-Delta system remains unknown. The potential role of just one species, the Atlantic ribbed horsemussel Arcuatula demissa, provides insight into the potentially profound impact of introduced

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filter feeders on the estuary's ecosystems. Studying the energy flow in these mussels in a Georgia marsh, Kuenzler (1961) reported that, "The mussels... have a definite effect upon the water over the marsh, daily removing one-third of the particulate phosphorus from suspension. They regenerate a small part of this into phosphate, and reject the remainder in pseudofeces and feces which drop to the mud surface. It appears, therefore, that the mussel population may be very important in the phosphate cycle as a depositional agent, furnishing raw materials to deposit-feeders which regenerate the phosphorus." The potential tantalizing role of Arcuatula in the economy of Bay marshes as a biogeochemical agent remains to be investigated. The Control of Phytoplankton in South San Francisco Bay by Introduced Clams In two fundamental papers, Cloern (1982) and Officer et al. (1982) demonstrated that the primary mechanism controlling phytoplankton biomass during summer and fall in South San Francisco Bay is "grazing" (filter feeding) by benthic organisms, in particular the introduced Atlantic gem clam Gemma gemma and the introduced Japanese bivalves Musculista (as Musculus) senhousia and Venerupis philippinarum (as Tapes japonica).1 Cloern (1982) calculated that "suspension-feeding bivalves are sufficiently abundant to filter a volume equivalent to the volume of South Bay at least once daily" (emphasis added). This remarkable process must have a significant impact on the standing phytoplankton stock in the South Bay; and with nearly the entire primary production of the South Bay potentially passing through the guts of introduced clams, this may have fundamentally altered the energy available for native biota. The Control of Phytoplankton in Northern San Francisco Bay by Introduced Clams: The Pre-Potamocorbula Years Nichols (1985) extended this model of benthic control of water column production to the northern Bay. He noted that during the central California drought of 1976-1977, several species typically more common west of Carquinez Strait invaded and became abundant in Suisun Bay (including four introduced Atlantic species: the clam Mya arenaria (which Nichols noted was introduced), the amphipods Corophium acherusicum and Ampelisca abdita, and the spionid polychaete Streblospio benedicti. In addition, a resident species, the tellinid clam Macoma balthica (now Macoma petalum, see Chapter 3), increased in abundance; this species too is introduced. With the arrival of these species and the increase in Macoma, total community abundance peaked at 153,000/m2 at one site in 1976 and 20,000/m2 at one site in 1977. During these two years, the usual summer diatom bloom failed to appear (Cloern et al. 1983). Nichols (1985) proposed that this guild of estuarine invaders led to increase benthic "grazing" (filter feeding), particularly by the clam Mya, but also by the other species (Nichols
1

Remarkably, Cloern (1982) does not mention that any of these species are introduced, and while Officer et al. (1982) note that Musculus (=Musculista) and Tapes (=Venerupis) are introduced, they focus on the phenomenon of benthic filter feeding in San Francisco Bay as a "natural eutrophication control" process.

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noted, for example, that the worm Streblospio switches from deposit feeding to suspension feeding at higher phytoplankton concentrations). Indeed, Nichols estimated that Mya alone "could have filtered all of the particles (including the diatoms) from the water column on the order of once per day" (emphasis added). Cloern et al. (1983) noted that the presumably native phytoplanktivorous mysid (opossum) shrimp Neomysis mercedis suffered a "near-complete collapse" in the Suisun estuary in 1977, which they describe in part as a potential result of food limitation. In turn, 1977 was a year of record low abundance of juvenile striped bass in the north Bay; larval bass rely heavily on the mysid Neomysis (Cloern et al. 1983). Both collapses may have been "a direct consequence of low phytoplankton biomass" (Nichols, 1985), which, if Nichols is correct in linking the decline of the phytoplankton standing stock to a rise in benthic bivalve grazing, provides a direct and remarkable example of the potential impact of an introduced species on the Bay's food web. Thus: Populations of the Atlantic Clam Mya arenaria >>Significantly Reduces Phytoplankton Standing Stock >>Leads to a Decline in Zooplankton (e. g. Mysids) >>Leads to a Decline in Fish (e. g. Juvenile Striped Bass) The Control of Phytoplankton in Northern San Francisco Bay by Introduced Clams: Potamocorbula and the Disappearance of the Summer Phytoplankton At about the same time (1985) that Nichols first proposed that introduced clams could be controlling primary productivity in Suisun Bay, a ship inbound from China was deballasting into Suisun Bay a species of clam that would vastly overshadow the trophic impact of the existing guild of benthic phytoplanktivores. In October 1986 three specimens of Potamocorbula amurensis, a species previously known only from Asian waters, were collected in Suisun Bay. By the following summer, Potamocorbula was the most abundant benthic macro-organism in Suisun bay, achieving average densities of over 2,000/m2, and peak densities at some sites of over 10,000/m2. Potamocorbula has since spread and become the dominant subtidal clam in San Pablo Bay and South Bay as well. What has been the impact of adding Potamocorbula to the Bay's ecosystem? Alpine and Cloern (1992) calculated that the mean annual primary production in Suisun Bay during the years of lower benthic clam density (<2,000 clams/m2) was 106 grams of carbon/m2, compared to an estimated mean annual production of only 39 grams/m2 when clams were dense (>2,000 clams/m2; these clams were mainly Potamocorbula, but included some Mya, whose densities declined sharply after the arrival of PotamocorbulaNichols et al., 1990). Thus, since the proliferation and spread of Potamocorbula in 1987, the summer phytoplankton biomass maximum in the northern estuary (the diatom bloom) has disappeared, presumably because of feeding by this new invader. Thus since 1987, the invasion of the Bay by Potamocorbula has added a striking and persistent "top down" level of control to biological productivity in the estuary.

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Werner and Hollibaugh (1993) may have recently provided the answer to one of the puzzles associated with the radical alteration of the estuary by Potamocorbula: if the phytoplankton bloom has been eliminated by Potamocorbula's filter feeding, then what are those billions of clams now eating? (Cohen, 1990). Werner and Hollibaugh showed that Potamocorbula consumes bacteria as well as phytoplankton. Though it consumes bacteria at lower efficiency than diatoms, Potamocorbula assimilates both with high efficiency. At present densities in northern San Francisco Bay, Potamocorbula is capable of filtering the entire water column over the deep channels more than once per day and over the shallows almost 13 times per day, a rate of filtration which exceeds the phytoplankton's specific growth rate and approaches or exceeds the bacterioplankton's specific growth rate. Kimmerer et al. (1994) have now provided evidence that Potamocorbula substantially reduces zooplanktonic copepod populations in the North Bay by direct predation. Thus, Potamocorbula operates at multiple levels in the food chain: not only does it reduce phytoplankton (which would indirectly lead to reductions in zooplankton), but it also directly consumes zooplankton. It will be both critical to our understanding of the trophic dynamics of the estuary and inordinately challenging to sort out the complex and changing interrelationships of (a) these two levels of Potamocorbula's interaction with the food chain, (b) competition between Potamocorbula and other introduced and native benthic filter feeders, (c) the roles of additional first and second order consumers introduced to the zooplankton (copepods and mysids) in reducing phytoplankton stocks, (d) the role of interspecific competition between and among introduced and native copepods and mysids, (e) selective predation by higher order consumers, many of them introduced fish species, on the zooplankton, and (f) competition between and among both introduced and native higher order consumers. Invasions by new species of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and benthic filter feeders in the Bayinvasions that can be predicted with some degree of confidence (Chapter X)will add further complexities to this framework. (d) Epibenthic and Shallow-Infaunal Grazers and Deposit Feeders Benthic non-filter feeding invaders in San Francisco Bay include a number of carnivores and omnivores (considered below) as well as epibenthic and shallow infaunal grazers on surface sediments. The latter include a number of species of introduced polychaetes (such as the extremely abundant maldanid worm Sabaco) which act as selective or non-selective deposit feeders, interfacial bivalves such as Macoma petalum, which uses its siphons to graze on the mud surface but can also suspension feed, grazing peracarid crustaceans (including many introduced species of amphipods, isopods, tanaids, cumaceans and mysids), and the Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta. The recent discovery of the deposit-feeding Atlantic spionid Marenzelleria viridis in San Francisco Bay is of particular interest. Marenzelleria was transported by ballast water to western Europe in the 1980s and has since become one of the most common macrobenthic species in the North and Baltic Seas (Essink and Kleef, 1993; Bastrop et al., 1995). Preliminary studies reveal a variety of species interactions, in particular a significant positive relationship between increasing densities of Marenzelleria and increasing densities of Corophium, although the mechanism of this interaction is not known (Essink and Kleef, 1993). As with the guild of filter feeders, the overall picture of the impact of introduced grazers and deposit feeders in the San Francisco Bay and Delta is not known. Based

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upon Atlantic studies, however, it can be predicted that the mudsnail Ilyanassa is playing a significantif not criticalrole in altering the diversity, abundance, size distribution, and recruitment of many species on intertidal mudflats of San Francisco Bay. Millions of migrating mudsnails sweep large areas of mudflat clear of epibenthic diatoms (JTC, pers. obs., Barnstable Harbor, MA), and Ilyanassa has further been shown to be an opportunistic omnivore, consuming spionid worms and littorinid snail egg cases (Brenchley & Carlton, 1983). (e) Higher Level Carnivores and Omnivores "... the arrival and establishment of the green crab signals another potentially exceptional level of ecosystem change in San Francisco Bay..." Cohen et al. (1995) ".... Carcinus maenas will significantly alter community structure, ecological interactions, and evolutionary processes in embayments of western North America" Grosholz & Ruiz (1995) Introduced carnivorous and omnivorous crabs, snails, fish and terrestrial mammals undoubtedly have broad impacts throughout the San Francisco Bay and Delta ecosystem. Smaller introduced carnivores are now present (and often abundant) throughout the Bay. These include on soft sediments the recently introduced clameating slug Philine auriformis from New Zealand; on rocks and pilings the Atlantic barnacle-eating oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea; and in hydroid masses on floats and navigation buoys the large Japanese isopod Synidotea laevidorsalis. We consider (here and in Section 5 below) three categories of carnivorous invaders in the estuary: the European green crab Carcinus maenas, introduced anadromous and warmwater gamefish, and introduced mammals. The potential and observed roles of Carcinus maenas, first collected in California in 1989-1990 in the Estero Americano and in San Francisco Bay, have been addressed at length by Cohen et al. (1995) and by Grosholz & Ruiz (1995), the essence of whose findings have been quoted above. Cohen et al. (1995) noted that Carcinus consumes "an enormous variety of prey items," including organisms from five plant and protist phyla and 14 animal phyla. They predict that Carcinus will prey on many of the previously introduced species in San Francisco Bayboth epifaunal and infaunal taxawith the clam Potamocorbula being a potential major prey item. Carcinus' habitat range includes marshes, rocky substrates and fouling communities, and the European and New England literature indicates broad and striking potential for this crab to become an important carnivore in these systems (Cohen et al., 1995). Grosholz & Ruiz (1995) report that Carcinus has already "significantly reduced densities" of the most abundant near-surface dwellers in Bodega Harbor, 75 km to the north of San Francisco. These taxa included the native bivalves Transennella spp., the cumacean Cumella vulgaris and the amphipod Corophium sp. In laboratory experiments, Carcinus captured and consumed Dungeness crab (Cancer magister) up to its own size. The twenty-eight species of introduced anadromous, freshwater or euryhaline fish in the estuary include many important carnivores now found throughout the upper estuary. In particular, carp, mosquitofish, catfish, green sunfish, bluegill, inland silverside, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and striped bass have been found to be

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among the most significant predators throughout the brackish and freshwater reaches of the Delta. Of particular concern is the extent to which these introduced fish have reduced populations or contributed to the local or global extinction of native California fish. Evidence for interference, reduction, and destruction of spawning and nursery sites of native species, and the extirpation of native fish from feeding grounds, has been found for introduced carp, catfish, green sunfish and bluegill. 3. SPATIAL PATTERNS OF COMPETITION Little is known of pre-1850 Bay and Delta ecosystems by which to determine the diversity and density of the aboriginal aquatic biota, and thus assessments of whether introduced species replaced or displaced abundant native organisms are severely constrained. Stimpson (1857) implied (though he may have been speaking of echinoderms only) that the invertebrate fauna of the Bay was depauperate in both species and numbers of individuals, although it is possible that even by Stimpson's time the virtual elimination of a top level predator (the aboriginal Indian population) in the Bay Area had led to a top-down cascade of faunal changes; or that the elimination of a keystone species controlling habitat structure in the watershed (beaver), acting through effects on anadromous fish populations, could have similarly initiated a cascade effect (McEvoy, 1986). Nevertheless, despite the limitations on our knowledge of the Estuary's native fauna, it is clear that in certain habitats there were no native species in some taxonomic groups and trophic guilds. Table 5 shows the patterns of spatial relationship between native and introduced invertebrates along the marine to freshwater gradient in the Estuary. These patterns suggest that at least for some invading species, resources were available that were not being comparably utilized by native taxa, perhaps facilitating the initial invasion and establishment of the exotic species. (The terms "open niche," "empty niche" or "vacant niche," sometimes applied to such situations, are misnomers. A "niche" refers to the living conditions of an existing species, not to imaginary ecologic space, open or otherwise; see Herbold & Moyle, 1986.) The most common spatial pattern of invasion in the Estuary is for introduced species to occupy regions partially or wholly upstream of their apparent native counterpart species. These introduced and native counterparts may compete where their ranges in the Estuary overlap, but in many cases in at least part of its range, the introduced species is free from such competition. An example is the introduced Atlantic crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii which exists in the upper Bay and Delta at salinities below the 3 ppt tolerance limit of the native crab Hemigrapsus oregonensis. In turn, however, Hemigrapsus, through predation and possibly through competitive interactions, may limit Rhithropanopeus' downstream expansion (Jordan, 1989).

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Table 5. Patterns of Invasion Along the Salinity Gradient in the San Francisco Estuary and the Adjoining Coast Native species are listed in normal type. Invading species are listed in bold type. Marine Mesohaline Oligohaline Fresh

PATTERN: UPSTREAM INVADERS

Microcionid Sponges: Microciona microjoanna Microciona prolifera None None None None

Halichondriid Sponges: Halichondria panicea Halichondria bowerbanki Acontiate Anemones: Metridium senile Metridium senile ? Diadumene franciscana Diadumene ?cincta Diadumene leucolena Diadumene lineata

None

None

Tubeworms (Serpulid Polychaetes): Serpula "vermicularis" Ficopomatus enigmaticus Flattened, Nestling Slipper Shells: Crepidula nummariaa Crepidula plana a Crepidula perforans Convex Slipper Shells Crepidula adunca Muricid Snails: Ocenebra circumtexta Ocenebra lurida Crepidula convexa Urosalpinx cinerea

Ficopomatus enigmaticus

None

None

None

None None

None None

Mussels in the Genus Mytilus: Mytilus californianus Mytilus trossulus None Mytilus galloprovincialis Gem Clams: Transennella confusa Transennella tantilla Littleneck Clams: Protothaca staminea Transennella tantilla ? Gemma gemma Protothaca staminea Venerupis philippinarum None

None

None

None

None

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Table 5. Patterns of Invasion Along the Salinity Gradient - continued Marine Macoma Clams: Macoma secta Macoma inquinata Macoma nasuta Shipworms: Bankia setacea Lyrodus pedicellatus Teredo navalis Barnacles: Balanus crenatus Balanus glandula Cirolanid Isopods: Cirolana harfordi Mesohaline Macoma nasuta Macoma petalum Oligohaline Macoma petalum Fresh None

Teredo navalis

None

None

Balanus glandula Balanus improvisus Eurylana arcuata

Balanus improvisus

Balanus improvisus b

None None

None None

Hydroid-eating Idoteid Isopods: Synidotea bicuspida Synidotea Synidotea ritteri laevidorsalis Tanaids: Leptochelia dubiac Mud Crabs: Hemigrapsus nudus Hemigrapsus oregonensis Entoprocts: Barentsia gracilis

Sinelobus sp. Rhithropanopeus b harrisii

Hemigrapsus oregonensis

Rhithropanopeus harrisii

Barentsia benedeni

None None

Urnatella gracilis None

Arborescent Bryozoans in the Genus Bugula: Bugula californica Bugula neritina Bugula pacifica Bugula stolonifera Bugula neritina Phlebobranch Sea Squirts: Ascidia ceratodes Ascidia sp. Corella sp. Ciona intestinalis Chelyosoma productum Ciona savignyi Simple Stolidobranch Sea Squirts: Styela truncata Styela montereyensis Styela montereyensis Styela clava Pyura haustor Molgula manhattensis

None

None

Molgula manhattensis

None

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Table 5. Patterns of Invasion Along the Salinity Gradient - continued Marine Mesohaline Oligohaline Eucyclogobius newberryi d Lepidogobius lepidus Tridentiger bifasciatus Acanthogobius flavimanus Fresh Tridentiger bifasciatus Acanthogobius flavimanus

Gobies Clevelandia ios Clevelandia ios Coryphopterus nicholsii Eucyclogobius newberryi d Lepidogobius lepidus Tridentiger trigonocephalus Gillichthys mirabilis Acanthogobius flavimanus

PATTERN: INSERTION INVADERS

Pileworms (Nereid Polychaetes): Nereis vexillosa Nereis succinea Nereis succinea Hediste limnicola

PATTERN: DOWNSTREAM INVADERS

Tube-dwelling Corophium Amphipods: None Corophium acherusicum Corophium alienense Corophium insidiosum Corophium heteroceratum Corophium spinicorne Corophium spinicorne Corophium stimpsoni Corophium stimpsoni Corophium acherusicum Corophium alienense

OTHER PATTERNS OF INVASION

Palaemonid Shrimp: None Intertidal Mudsnails: None Palaemon macrodactylus Palaemon macrodactylus None

Cerithidea californica e None Ilyanassa obsoleta e Assiminea californica f Ovatella myosotis f

None

Intertidal Marsh Snails: None Assiminea californica f Ovatella myosotis f

None

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Table 5. Patterns of Invasion Along the Salinity Gradient - continued Marine Mesohaline Oligohaline Fresh

NO INVADERS (WITH POTENTIAL FOR INSERTION INVADERS)

Gnorimosphaeromid Isopods: Gnorimosphaeroma Gnorimosphaeroma oregonense oregonense Anisogammarid Amphipods: Anisogammarus Anisogammarus confervicolus confervicolus
a b c d e f g

None g

Gnorimosphaeroma insulare Anisogammarus ramellus

None

Crepidula nummaria and perforans may not be separate species. Regularly present but not reproducing. Cryptogenic. Formerly present, now extinct from the Estuary. Race (1982) demonstrated that competitive and other interactions sort these snails along a salinity/elevation gradient by mid-summer Berman & Carlton (1991) found little competitive interaction between these snails in Oregon marshes. The introduced Japanese estuarine isopod, Gnorimosphaeroma rayi, is reported from Tomales Bay (north of San Francisco), but is not yet known from San Francisco Bay.

Other notable "upstream invaders" include the Atlantic barnacle Balanus improvisus, the most freshwater-tolerant barnacle in the world, whose range in the Estuary extends far upstream of the Bay's native barnacles; two Japanese gobies, Acanthogobius flavimanus and Tridentiger bifasciatus, which have become abundant in the upper Bay and Delta upstream of the native estuarine gobies, and have been transported south from the Delta in freshwater irrigation canals; the Australian serpulid worm Ficopomatus enigmaticus, the only tubeworm found in the brackish parts of the Bay and extending into quite low salinity water; and the shipworm Teredo navalis, which when it was introduced in the 1910s invaded upstream portions of the Estuary not previously entered by the Bay's existing native and exotic shipworms, and caused enormous damage to wooden maritime structures. In some cases, such as that of the freshwater entoproct Urnatella gracilis, the introduced species may live in such low salinity water that it never overlaps in range with its closest native, and more marine, counterparts. A second spatial pattern, rarer and perhaps more difficult for an exotic species to successfully achieve, is that of an "insertion invader." An example was described by Oglesby (1965a), who pointed out that among nereid worms the introduced brackish water worm Nereis succinea occupies a geographic position in the estuary between the range of the native marine worm Nereis vexillosa and the range of the native freshwater worm Hediste limnicola. He argued that succinea, being more finely and narrowly

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adapted to the brackish water ecotone, may outcompete the more broadly adapted vexillosa and limnicola within this zone. A third spatial pattern in the Estuary, uncommon and somewhat unexpected, is the "downstream invader" mode exhibited by the introduced amphipods in the tubebuilding genus Corophium. John Chapman has suggested that the native Corophium species may have been adapted to a specific flow and sedimentation regime, and that the dramatic human alteration of these parameters (due to hydraulic mining, soileroding agricultural practices, construction and roadbuilding, and the leveeing of channels on the one hand, and dam construction and water diversions on the other) that has occurred since the mid-19th century may have facilitated the invasion of the Estuary by at least three species of more marine-adapted Corophium. Other spatial patterns of native-invader competition are also represented in the Estuary: In the case of the brackish-water, fouling-inhabiting Korean shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus, there are no apparent native counterparts, upstream or downstream, and thus no obvious competitors. The native marsh snail Assiminea californica and the Atlantic marsh snail Ovatella myosotis, occur in the same marsh areas and appear to be counterparts, but studies in Oregon on these two snails found little evidence of any competitive interactions between them (Berman & Carlton, 1991; while in the Estuary these snails apparently co-occur over their whole elevational range, in Oregon they cooccur only in the lower part of Ovatella's elevational range). The introduced Atlantic snail Ilyanassa obsoleta now occupies the Bay mudflat areas formerly occupied by the native snail Cerithidea californica. Each spring the two populations of these snails collide, and by mid-summer the exotic Ilyanassa restricts the native Cerithidea to high-marsh salt pannes (an environment too high in salinity for Ilyanassa and thus providing a habitat refuge for Cerithidea) through egg-string predation and direct competitive interference (Race, 1982). Along with competition, other interactions between native and introduced species may also occur, potentially leading to changes in community or habitat structure, or to the replacement, displacement or local elimination of the native taxa. Examples are reviewed in the sections below.

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4. COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS AND HABITAT ALTERATIONS At the end of the 20th century, exotic species play a major role in structuring or altering aquatic environments. We have considered above the evidence for dramatic alterations in the food webs and energy flow in the San Francisco Bay and Delta ecosystem due to individual species and species guilds. With such evidence in hand, it is easy to overlook the fact that for many abundant species in the Bay and Delta, little or nothing is known about their ecological rolestrophic or otherwisein the ecosystem. For such common introduced species as the marsh plants brass buttons (Cotula coronopifolia) and peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium), many of the freshwater fish, the mat-forming mussel Musculista, the bed-forming mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, the soft-shell clam Mya, the littleneck clam Venerupis, and many of the introduced polychaetes, crustaceans, hydroids, sea anemones, tunicates and bryozoans, little or nothing is known of their competitive and potentially regulatory interactions with native species and with each other. Certain observations and experimental data are available, however, both in the Bay and elsewhere, to gain some insight into the additional extensive community-level modifications that have taken or may be taking place through competitive and other interactions of nonindigenous species. (a) Soft-Bottom Communities In subtidal and intertidal soft-bottom communities, dense beds (> 2,000 individuals/m2) of Potamocorbula amurensis appear to have mechanisms that prevent the successful establishment of other organisms, native or introduced. These mechanisms may include predation on the larvae of these organisms, more efficient filter feeding (Nichols et al. 1990) and direct spatial competition. In the only experimental studies done to date in San Francisco Bay on the interactions between benthic native and introduced invertebrates, Race (1982) has shown experimentally that the introduced mudsnail Ilyanassa obsoleta restricts the native mudsnail Cerithidea californica to upper intertidal, high salinity habitat through egg predation and direct interference. (b) Fouling Communities Competitive interactions in Bay and Delta fouling communities can be inferred from studies of the same or similar species in other systems; the absence of such work in San Francisco Bay is notable. Working in nearby Bodega Harbor, Standing (1976) experimentally demonstrated that the hydroid Obelia "dichotoma", also present in San Francisco Bay, decreases the settlement rate of barnacles but increases the settlement rate of ascidians. By interfering with barnacle recruitment, ascidian settlement is enhanced, and dense aggregations of ascidians support a diverse associated community. Working in North Carolina, Sutherland (1977, 1978) found that the bryozoan Schizoporella sp. (identified as S. unicornis but perhaps not that species) and the seasquirt Styela plicata (introduced from the Pacific to the Atlantic, although this was not known to Sutherland) have a stabilizing role in community structure: when dense, these two dominant species exclude other species from invading, resulting in patches

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with fewer species and less change over time. On a greater time scale, however, Styela destabilizes the fouling community through annual "sloughing off" of the large summer individuals, taking the associated fouling community with it. Both Styela species and Schizoporella unicornis are common in San Francisco Bay. Sutherland's observations may further aid in explaining the apparent replacement of mussel beds (Mytilus edulis) in parts of New England by the introduced Asian seasquirt Styela clava, a species common throughout the Bay's fouling communities. (c) Marsh Communities Competitive interactions in Bay marsh systems are poorly known. At local sites, the introduced peppergrass Lepidium latifolium may compete with native pickleweed Salicornia virginica, and may also play a role in displacing rare native marsh plants such as Lillaeopsis masoni (Trumbo, 1994). At a site in San Pablo Bay, the introduced chenopod Salsola soda also appears to be competing with Salicornia. Despite existing populations of the native Spartina foliosa, three species of the cordgrass Spartina have been intentionally planted in San Francisco Bay salt marshes (Spicher and Josselyn, 1985). One of these, Spartina alterniflora, which has converted 100s of acres of mudflats in Willapa Bay, Washington into cordgrass islands, has become abundant in parts of San Francisco Bay and may be competing with the native cordgrass. Spartina alterniflora has broad potential for ecosystem alteration: its larger and more rigid stems, greater stem density, and higher root densities may substantially alter habitat for native wetland animals and infauna. Dense stands of S. alterniflora may change sediment dynamics, reduce benthic algal production because of lower light levels below the cordgrass canopy, and reduce shorebird feeding habitat through colonization of mudflats (Callaway, 1990; Callaway & Josselyn, 1992). In British estuaries, the invasion of mudflats by Spartina anglica has produced adverse effects on shorebirds (Goss-Custard & Moser, 1990). (d) Freshwater Systems The Delta today hosts large populations of exotic species: the Asian clam Corbicula can form dense beds many meters in extent, the eastern American worm Manayunkia can occur in sediments in densities of 2,000 to 5,000/m2, introduced crayfish and fish are frequently the only crayfish or fish species encountered, and meadows of floating or rooted aquatic plants may dominate areas of formerly open water. The introduced crayfish Orconectes, Procambarus and Pacifastacus, when dense, are capable of extensive local habitat alteration through burrowing activities and presumably play an important role in regulating their prey plant and animal populations. Some introduced bottom-feeding fish are similarly capable of structurally altering habitats; carp, for example, dig up the bottom, destroying rooted vegetation and rendering potentially productive areas unsuitable for use as spawning or nursery areas by other fish species. Several introduced freshwater plants can become locally abundant. These include the aquarium plant Egeria (=Elodea), which has been responsible for clogging channels and boat berths, and the water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), which manifests itself as a nuisance plant by blocking waterways, interfering with vessel operations, and fouling pumps. Both of these plants alter conditions of shading and cover and, in the case of

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water hyacinth, may become dense enough in places to interfere with fish migration (CDBW, 1994). (e) Bio-eroders: Is the Bay Margin Disappearing? Some evidence exists that bio-erosion of the Bay and Delta land margins may be occurring at the "hands" of burrowers and borers among the exotic fauna. The introduced crayfish Procambarus clarkii excavates burrows 5 cm in diameter and as much as 100 cm deep in Delta levees and banks. Muskrats similarly create extensive burrow systems in the Delta. The recently introduced Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir is known to form extensive excavations along river banks. However, the most numerous bio-eroder around the Bay margins is the New Zealand boring isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum. Carlton (1979b) has described portions of certain eastern and northern bay shores, characterized by many linear meters of fringing mud banks riddled with the one-half centimeter holes of this isopod, as "sphaeroma topography," a phenomenon illustrated by Barrows (1919) and Hannon (1976). Higgins (1956) concluded that this isopod plays "a major, if not the chief, role in erosion" of intertidal sandstone and tuff terraces along the south shore of San Pablo Bay, due to boring activity that weakens the rock and facilitates its removal by wave action. Hannon (1976) reported one estimate that Sphaeroma could "remove up to 10 meters of dike in one year", a number that appears excessive. Nevertheless, Sphaeroma has been burrowing into bay shores for over a century, and it would not be surprising to learn that the land/water margin has retreated at certain sites by a distance of at least several meters due to this isopod's activities. Exceedingly valuable would be observational and experimental studies in the Estuary that focus on the erosion rates of crayfish, muskrats, isopods and, if they become abundant along channel, stream and river banks, Chinese mitten crabs. 5. THE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL EXTIRPATION OF NATIVE SPECIES No estuarine or aquatic introduction in the San Francisco Bay region has solely or indisputably led to the extinction of a native species. Short of this, however, invasions in the Bay have led to the complete habitat or regional extirpation of species, have contributed to one global extinction of a California freshwater fish, and are now strongly contributing to the further demise of endangered marsh birds and mammals. (a) Introduced Fish and the Extirpation of Native Fish Introduced freshwater and anadromous fish have been directly implicated in the regional reduction and extinction, and the global extinction, of four native California fish. The introduced striped bass, largemouth and smallmouth bass, bluegill and green sunfish, through predation or through competition for food and breeding sites, have all been associated with the regional elimination of the native Sacramento perch from the Delta. The introduced inland silverside may be a significant predator on the larvae and eggs of the native Delta smelt. Expansion of the introduced smallmouth bass has been associated with a decline in the native hardhead. Predation by striped bass, largemouth and smallmouth bass may have been a major factor in the global extinction of the thicktail chub.

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(b) Invaders and the Endangered California Clapper Rail: Eaten by Rats and Foxes; Trapped by Marsh Mussels; Habitat Altered by Plant Invasions The California clapper rail may serve as an example of how populations of an already endangered species may be further threatened by biological invasions. Despite the interest in clapper rails in San Francisco Bay, however, there has been little quantitative investigation of the impact of introduced species, suggesting fruitful avenues for investigation. Norway rats, established in many areas of California by the mid-1880s, have long been recognized as significant predators on clapper rail, starting with early observations such as the following (de Groot, 1927): "the clapper rail has no more deadly enemy than this sinister fellow. No rail dares nest on a marsh area which has been dyked, for as surely as she does this vicious enemy will track her down and destroy the eggs. Many nests have I found bearing mute evidence of the fact that some luckless rail had gambled her skill at nest-hiding against the cunning of the Norway rat, only to have her home destroyed." Predation on both rail eggs and rail chicks is considered to be high, with as many as a third of rail eggs said to be taken by rats (Josselyn, 1983; BODC, 1994). The cordgrass zones of salt marshes support the highest clapper rail densities by providing cover and/or isolation from rats, raptors and feral predators (Josselyn, 1983), and thus the expansion of these zones by the introduced Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora could benefit rails. Alternatively, competitive replacement of native cordgrass by S. alterniflora could reduce preferred cover for the rails. Although present inland in California since the 1870s, the red fox has appeared on the margins of San Francisco Bay, adding another critical clapper rail predator to the ecosystem a century after the appearance of the Norway rat. In California the red fox has preyed on the eggs and sometimes the young or adults, and disrupted nests or colonies, of the clapper rail (as well as other birds, including least tern, snowy plover, Caspian tern, black-necked stilt and avocet) (Forester & Takekawa, 1991; Takekawa, 1993; BDOC, 1994). Reduction in clapper rail populations by exotic species through processes other than direct predation may also have occurred. De Groot (1927) reported, under the heading of "the invisible foe," the following concerning the relationship of adult rails to the Atlantic ribbed marsh mussel Arcuatula demissa: "This apparently harmless little mussel has been another of the rail's most relentless enemies, and the number of rail deaths attributable to its activities is incredible...Countless millions of these small mussels cover the edges and sometimes the entire bottoms of the gutters and creeks of the west Bay marshes. Up under the banks, where the rail so commonly feed and hide when the tide is out, these death traps are found in great numbers...Along comes a rail gingerly pecking into the soft mud (and it) rams (its) beak into the open mussel and in an instant the trap is sprung and the rail is helplessly and hopelessly trapped... shaking and scraping

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and pulling are all in vain...(and) the poor rail eventually (dies) by starvation" De Groot further believed that "at least seventy-five percent" of the adult rails of the Redwood marsh area in the South Bay had lost toes by entrapment in mussel shells. He argued that this led to the loss of juvenile birds as well: "But while the adult rail generally escapes with merely the loss of a toe or two, young birds must meet death frequently...(there is) some basis for stating that probably one or two chicks in every brood, if not more, meet an untimely end in this manner..." More recent observers note that clapper rails in the Bay are frequently missing one or more toes (Moffitt, 1941; Josselyn, 1983; Takekawa, 1993) and Josselyn (1983, p.69) includes a photograph of an adult clapper rail missing one toe and with an Arcuatula clamped to another. Unfortunately, accurate quantification of rail:mussel interactions is lacking, and thus the impact (implied by de Groot to be approaching one-third brood mortality at the valves of the mussel) on clapper rails remains unknown. That the rail/mussel interaction may not be all one sided, however, is suggested by Moffitt's (1941) study of rail feeding, wherein he found in a sample of 18 birds that 66 percent of the animal food of the rail (and 57 percent of the total food) consisted of Arcuatula. (c) Other Examples of Reductions and Extirpations Around the Bay and Delta, reduction and elimination of populations of other native species have occurred or appear to be in progress as the result of interactions with introduced species. Unfortunately, as with impacts on the clapper rail, and with the sole exception of impacts on native snails, no quantified data appear to be available. It has thus been suggested or observed that: the introduced Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa has displaced from mudflats to saltmarsh pannes and reduced the population of the native mudsnail Cerithidea; introduced green sunfish, bluegill, largemouth bass and the introduced American bullfrog may have contributed to the decline of native red-legged and yellowlegged frogs in the Bay and Delta region, largely through predation; introduced red fox, through predation, reduce or limit the recovery of populations of the endangered salt-marsh harvest mouse; introduced crayfish have displaced some native crayfish species and threaten others; introduced peppergrass (Lepidium latifolium) may displace rare native marsh plants, such as Lillaeopsis masoni.

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(B) THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY
The economic impacts of introduced marine, estuarine and aquatic organisms have been little studied and rarely quantified. It is clear, however, that these impacts have been substantial in the San Francisco Estuary. These impacts are of several interrelated and intergraded types. Positive impacts have included the value of food resources and recreational (sportfishing) resources provided by some introductions of fish and shellfish; the biological control of nuisance insect populations (e. g. by mosquitofish); and fish and wildlife enhancements such as the provision of food, habitat or other resources for valued species (Table 6). Major negative impacts have included the fouling and blocking of waterways and water delivery systems; damage to or impairment of maritime structures and vessels (e. g. damage to wharves, docks, ferry slips and ships' hulls by marine wood-boring organisms; increased fuel and maintenance requirements resulting from hull fouling); disruption or impairment of vital services; damage to populations of economically important fish and wildlife species; the costs (both direct and indirect) of control efforts; and the inability, in the face of continuous new introductions, to adequately manage the Estuary's ecosystem, resulting in restrictions on activities in and near the Estuary (Table 7). We discuss certain of these impacts below. 1. EXAMPLES OF POSITIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS FROM INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ESTUARY (a) Food and Sport Resources Skinner (1962) and Smith & Kato (1979) review the history of the fisheries in the Estuary. Although the introduced striped bass, American shad, white catfish, bullfrog, signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) and soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) all supported commercial fisheries in the Estuary in the past, only the crayfish is still commercially harvested today. These species and others, including many warm-water gamefish introduced to the Delta, continue to provide sport fisheries. Striped bass and shad supported large commercial fisheries during the late 19th and first half of the 20th century. Striped bass were introduced in 1879 and sold in San Francisco markets by 1889. The annual catch topped 500 tons by 1899, peaked at 1,000 toms in 1903, and generally stayed over 500 tons until 1918. The commercial fishery then declined and was closed in 1935 to avoid competition with sport fishing (Skinner, 1962; Smith & Kato, 1979). Shad were introduced in 1871, commercially harvested by 1874, and glutting the market by 1880 (Skinner, 1962). From 1900 to 1945 the Bay Area catch was often over 500 tons, and peaked at over 2,800 tons in 1917 (Skinner, 1962; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). The fish were mainly sold fresh until 1912, and thereafter salted and export to China, with the roe salted and canned; the size of the fishery was said to be limited by demand rather than by the abundance of shad. After 1945 the catch averaged around 300 tons until the fishery was eliminated in 1957 by a ban on gill-netting inside the Golden Gate (Shebley, 1917; Skinner, 1962; Smith & Kato, 1979).

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Table 6. Positive Economic Impacts of Marine, Estuarine and Aquatic Organisms Introduced into the San Francisco Estuary Details and references are provided in the species descriptions in Chapter 3. ORGANISMS CAUGHT FOR FOOD, FUR OR SPORT Striped bass, American shad and catfish supported commercial fisheries in the Estuary that were sometimes substantial, until commercial fishing for these species in the Estuary was banned. The above species, plus black bass, crappie, sunfish and carp support recreational fisheries in the Estuary. Crayfish are taken from the Delta both commercially and recreationally. The bullfrog Rana catesbeiana has been both raised in ponds and harvested from public waters in California. The Asian littleneck clam Venerupis philippinarum and sometimes the Atlantic soft-shell clam Mya arenaria are taken recreationally. Venerupis is harvested commercially in the Pacific northwest and sold in Bay Area markets as "Manila clams." A few other introduced molluscs are sometimes recreationally harvested from the Bay. The Asian freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea is sometimes taken recreationally from the Delta. Corbicula are harvested commercially from Lake Isabella in the southern end of the Delta's watershed. The Asian freshwater snail Cipangopaludina was imported and sold in Asian markets in the late 19th century, and was reportedly planted in the Bay Area and the Central Valley "to supply the markets of San Francisco Bay." Watercress is an edible green which no doubt is sometimes harvested recreationally. Muskrat are trapped for their fur. BAIT The golden shiner and fathead minnow are commercially raised as legally-designated freshwater bait fish in California. The yellowfin goby is commercially and recreationally harvested for use as bait, primarily for the introduced striped bass. The freshwater Asian clam Corbicula is harvested commercially and recreationally for bait. Introduced crayfish and bullfrog are caught recreationally for use as freshwater bait. Various other introduced fish (e. g. inland silverside) and invertebrates (e. g. the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis) are sometimes used for bait. B IOCONTROL The mosquitofish Gambusia affinis contributes to the control of mosquitoes. However, introductions of other species for biocontrol purposes (e. g. blue catfish to control the introduced clam Corbicula, South American Neochetina weevils to control water hyacinth) appear to have had no significant control effect, and have sometimes harmed desirable species (e. g. inland silverside Menidia beryllina). EROSION C ONTROL According to one study, the Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora may be reducing erosion at San Bruno Slough.

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Table 6. Positive Economic Impacts - continued ENHANCEMENT OF ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT FISH AND W ILDLIFE The South African brackish-marsh plant brass buttons provides food for waterfowl and refuge; marshes are sometimes managed to encourage its growth. The Atlantic cordgrass Spartina alterniflora might provide much-needed cover for the endangered California clapper rail. Threadfin shad were introduced to provide forage for sport fish, although there is doubt about how useful they are as forage; to the extent that they do provide forage they may have simply replaced native species; and some researchers believe that they may in fact compete with young sport fish and reduce the populations of sport fish. Many pelagic and benthic marine invertebrates form part of the trophic webs that support recreationally and commercially important fish, but may have simply replaced native invertebrates in this role.

White catfish were introduced in 1874. In 1875 the California Fish Commission predicted that they would support a commercial fishery by the following year, and in 1877 reported that they constituted an "important addition to the fish food supply of the city of Sacramento," further described in 1879 as "an immense supply of food" (Smith, 1896). By 1900 catfish were being exported to Mississippi. The Bay Area's reported annual catch of catfish ranged between 100 and 500 tons from 1905 to 1951 (Skinner, 1962), but the fishery was closed in 1953 due to declining numbers of fish(Miller, 1966a; Borgeson & McCammon, 1967). The soft-shell clam was first collected in the Bay in 1874 and by the 1880s was the most common clam in Bay Area markets (Stearns, 1881), and public and private softshell clam beds were established and managed throughout the Bay (Bonnot, 1932). The annual catch in the Bay Area (including bays north to Bodega) was 500 to 900 tons in 1889-1899, 50-150 tons in 1917-1935, and then declined until the fishery closed in 1948, for reasons that are now unclear but could involve a decline in the resource or market competition from other clams (Skinner, 1962; Herbold et al., 1992). Several workers have suggested that the soft-shell clams' early abundance in San Francisco Bay was due to replacement of populations of the native bent-nose clam Macoma nasuta. It is unclear when signal crayfish were introduced to California, but commercial harvest began in the Delta in 1970 to supply the Swedish market (after the native Swedish crayfish was decimated by an introduced North American crayfish disease). Initial landings of 50 tons rose to over 250 tons from 1975 to the 1980s (Osborne, 1977; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). The 1976 catch sold for a little over $300,000 (Osborne, 1978). Striped bass has been the economically most important sport fish in the Estuary, accounting for a substantial transfer of funds, variously estimated, from those who do the fishing to those who help them fish. Skinner (1962, p. 172) reported that striped bass anglers were spending about $18 million per year on the sport. McGinnis (1984) reported that anglers took about 1 million striped bass in 1980, spending about $7 million in the process. Herbold et al. (1992) reported that the industries surrounding striped bass fishing (involving boats, marinas, and fishing equipment and supplies) were estimated to inject $45 million into local economies.

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(b) Forage Fish Several small fish have been introduced to California in part to provide forage for larger sport fish, including the threadfin shad. However, there has been considerable disagreement over the value of the threadfin as forage (ranging, according to different authors, from "major" and "important" to "minor" and "inadequate"), and its overall impact on sport fish (involving competition with young sport fish for food), as reviewed in Chapter 3. 2. EXAMPLES OF NEGATIVE ECONOMIC IMPACTS FROM INTRODUCTIONS TO THE ESTUARY (a) Wood Boring Mare Island, in the upper part of San Francisco Bay, was chosen as the site for a naval base partly in order to get upstream of the Bay's marine wood-boring organisms. However, the introduction of the shipworm Teredo navalis, which tolerated much fresher water than did the Bay's existing wood borers, led to the destruction of some fifty major wharves, ferry slips and other structures in the northern part of the Estuary between 1919 and 1921, including several at Mare Island (Figure 8). Neily (1927) reported the damage to amount to $25 million, which, escalated to current (1992) dollars (based on the Engineering News Record: General Construction Cost Index; US Commerce Dept., 1975, 1984, 1993) is $616 million dollars. Although this figure does not include collateral damage (such as loaded freight cars that fell into the Bay when a railroad dock collapsed), disrupted service and lost business, or the subsequent costs of constructing, treating and maintaining structures to be resistant to Teredo, nor does it include damage from Teredo since 1921 or in other parts of the Bay, it does provide some quantification of the scale of potential economic impact from a single introduced organism. Other introduced wood-borers in the Bay are the shipworm Lyrodus pedicellatus,, and the isopods Limnoria tripunctata and L. quadripunctata, and Chelura terebrans. Although modern, chemically-treated pilings, marine timbers and marine wood products are considerably more resistant to borer infestations than untreated wood, borer damage continues to occur to the Bay's wooden pilings, docks and boat hulls. However, no current estimates of this damage are available. (b) Ship Fouling Hull fouling and other ship fouling have a large but generally little-recognized economic impact. For example, Gordon & Mawatari (1992) report estimates that a coating of slime 1 mm thick on an otherwise clean hull can increase skin friction up to 80 percent and reduce speed up to 15 percent, an estimate

Discussion Figure 8. Some Examples of Damage Caused by the Wood-boring Shipworm Teredo navalis in the San Francisco Estuary From Neily, 1927.

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(1) Failure of dock at Oleum, Contra Costa County, Oct. 8, 1919, dumping several loaded freight cars into San Francisco Bay. (2) Collapse of the South Vallejo Ferry Slip, Solano County, Nov. 4, 1920. (3) Collapse of the Benicia Municipal Wharf and House, Oct. 7, 1920.

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generally borne out by towing tests (WHOI, 1952). Ross & Emerson (1974) calculated that "a luxuriant growth of barnacles on a one-square-foot area of a ship may weigh as much as six pounds. On a large ship, the barnacles and other fouling organisms can add as much as three hundred tons to a ship's weight...a heavily fouled ship may need as much as 50 percent more fuel to move the same distance." In 1928 it was reported that U. S. shipping interests spent $100 million annually dealing with fouling (WHOI, 1952, citing Visscher, 1928). In the 1940s, the British Admiralty estimated that hull fouling on naval vessels increased fuel consumption by 35% to 50% after six months in temperate waters or after three months in tropical waters (WHOI, 1952). More recently, Haderlie (1984) reported that "all classes of [U. S.] naval ships show a ten percent average yearly increase in fuel consumption between dry dockings, and...most or all of this is due to increased drag caused by hull and propeller fouling." He further reported that in 1975 the U. S. Navy spent $15 million a year applying antifouling coatings to its vessels, but that despite this "the increased drag from hull fouling was adding over $150 million to the navy's annual fuel bill." Hull fouling can thus result in a significant loss of maximum speed and maneuverability, increased fuel consumption and decreased range, as well as necessitating increased maintenance and more frequent drydockingsissues of concern to all vessels but especially to military vessels (Haderlie, 1984). WHOI (1952) and Haderlie (1984) reported other impacts of ship fouling, including blocked fire mains; restricted or blocked flow to the main condensers serving the ship's engines, preventing the development of full power; other fouled seawater pipe systems, sometimes requiring the complete dismantling of these systems; fouled propellers causing increased vibration on board ship and loss of power; increased hull corrosion; fouled sonar domes causing degradation of performance due to reduced sound transmission and reception, increased self-noise due to turbulence, and interference with mechanical operation; and increased self-noise of the ship hull, a problem for military ships seeking to evade detection by enemy sonar. Such considerations have lead to the development and widespread use of antifouling compounds containing tributyltin (TBT), copper, mercury, arsenic and other materials which are toxic both to fouling and to nontarget marine organisms, and to those working with these compounds. The cleaning and maintenance of TBT-coated hulls has contributed to the creation of toxic "hot spots" in the Estuary. Though ships may be fouled by both native and non-native organisms, virtually all of the common fouling organisms in San Francisco Bay are introduced (e. g. Graham & Gay, 1945; Banta, 1963; ANC & JTC, pers. obs.). Thus fouling impacts for vessels spending much of their time in San Francisco Bay are largely due to introduced species. (c) Waterway Fouling The fouling of Delta waterways by water hyacinth became serious enough by the early 1980s to block ferry boats from reaching Bacon Island and prevent the island's produce reaching the market. In 1982 the California Legislature passed a bill ordering the control of water hyacinth in the Delta. Control efforts included setting up barriers to keep masses of hyacinth out of navigation channels, spraying

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Table 7. Negative Economic Impacts of Introduced Marine, Estuarine and Aquatic Organisms

A. Examples in the San Francisco Estuary Details and references are provided in the species descriptions in Chapter 3. W ATERWAY FOULING Water hyacinth Eichhornia crassipes European milfoil Myriophyllum spicatum Elodea Egeria densa

Navigational and recreational impacts include blocking passage through navigable waterways and access to marinas and berths, and fouling propellers and the water intakes of boat engines; impacts have been serious enough to shut down marinas and bar ferry boats from their routes. Interference with salmon migration. Costs of herbicide applications (including environmental and occupational health impacts). Costs of biocontrol efforts. Costs of mechanical removal and disposal.

FOULING OF VESSELS AND MARITIME STRUCTURES Many kinds of plants and Increased frictional resistance of ship and boat hulls, resulting in animals, including slower speeds, increased transit times, increased fuel costs, reduced seaweeds, sponges, maneuverability, and reduced effectiveness of military vessels. hydroids, tubeworms, Cost of anti-fouling coatings. mussels, barnacles, Costs of pollution from the use of anti-fouling compounds bryozoans and sea squirts formulated with tributyltin, copper, mercury, creosote or other toxic materials. Occupational health costs of manufacturing, applying and maintaining coatings of anti-fouling compounds formulated from toxic materials. Other increased maintenance costs, including the cost of time spent in drydock rather than in service. W OOD B ORING Shipworms Teredo navalis and Lyrodus pedicellatus Isopods Limnoria spp. and Chelura terebrans Damage to wooden maritime structures and vessels. Disruption of service. Increased maintenance costs. Increased construction costs. Impacts from the use of toxic anti-fouling compounds, as noted above.

BURROWING Muskrat Damage to levees, the walls of ditches, stream banks and Crayfish Orconectes and shorelines. Procambarus Isopod Sphaeroma Chinese mitten crab Isopod Sphaeroma Damage to styrofoam flotation of marina docks.

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Table 7. Negative Economic Impacts - continued FOULING OF W ATER SYSTEMS Corbicula , and to a Increased sedimentation in canals reducing flow rates. minor degree, Urnatella Increased maintenance costs. and Cordylophora Water hyacinth Fouled irrigation pumps and fish screens.

PREDATION ON AND COMPETITION WITH ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT SPECIES Many species of fish Reduction of populations of commercial and sport fish. Crayfish Orconectes Elimination of the Sacramento perch Archoplites interruptus, a virilis and Pacifastacus sport fish, from its native waters. leniusculus Reduction in populations of certain native fish, crayfish and frogs Bullfrog Rana contributing to their listing or potential listing as threatened or catesbeiana endangered species, resulting in: - interference with water diversions, including restrictions on the location, timing and volume of diversions and on the construction of new diversion facilities; - interference with other construction and development projects, both inside and outside the Estuary, Costs of control efforts, such as rotenone applications. Kills of nontarget sport fish from rotenone applications. Occupational and environmental health costs of rotenone use. Atlantic oyster drill Urosalpinx cinerea and odostomiid snail Boonea bisuturalis Predators or parasites on oysters, clams and mussels.

PROMOTION OF UNDESIRABLE SPECIES Parrot's feather Said to provide excellent mosquito habitat. Myriophyllum aquaticum CROP DAMAGE Crayfish Orconectes virilis and Procambarus clarkii Eat rice shoots, as apparently does the recently introduced Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in China.

INTERFERENCE WITH WATER QUALITY MONITORING Mussel Mytilus Fifteen years of estuarine water quality monitoring, based on galloprovincialis comparing contaminant levels in the same species of mussel in different bays, may have been rendered questionable by the introduction of this second and virtually indistinguishable species of mussel which may take up and metabolize contaminants at a different rate.

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Table 7. Negative Economic Impacts - continued ECOSYSTEM INSTABILITY/MANAGEMENT UNCERTAINTY Continuous high rate of New species continually being introduced into the Estuary's biota introductions resulting in unmanageable fluctuations in populations of important species, in turn resulting in added restrictions on many activities (including water diversions, wastewater discharges, dredging, levee maintenance, construction) in and near the Estuary.

B. Some Examples from Elsewhere FOULING Zebra mussel Dreissena polymorpha

The European zebra mussel was introduced to the Great Lakes in ballast water in 1986 and rapidly spread to 14 states and 3 Canadian provinces. - It has seriously fouled and in some cases caused the complete blockage of the water intakes for municipal water systems, industrial process water systems, and cooling water systems for power plants. It has incurred costs through the disruption of services; increased monitoring and maintenance requirements; changes in operations; the retrofitting of existing facilities and added costs in the construction of new facilities to make them less vulnerable to mussel fouling; the construction of redundant facilities to prevent service disruptions; the increased use of chlorine (with attendant occupational, public and environmental health costs). - It has interfered with commerce and recreation by fouling navigational buoys, maritime structures and vessels, with attendant costs. - It has fouled recreational beaches. In the past year, live zebra mussels have been found attached to boats entering California from the eastern states.

PREDATION ON ECONOMICALLY IMPORTANT SPECIES Green crab Carcinus This European crab was introduced to the eastern United States in maenas ship fouling and destroyed commercially valuable soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria) beds in New England and Maine in the 1950s. Control efforts included fencing, trapping and poisoning. The green crab became established in San Francisco Bay in the late 1980s.

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Table 7. Negative Economic Impacts - continued Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis Introduced in ballast water, this catadromous, burrowing crab became phenomenally abundant in the rivers and upper estuaries of Germany in the 1930s, causing damage to trap and net fisheries and to river banks, leading to a government-sponsored control program that, at its peak, trapped and destroyed tens of millions of crabs per year. The mitten crab became established in San Francisco Bay in the 1990s. Discovered to the Black and Azov seas in the early 1980s, this northwestern Atlantic ctenophore or 'comb jelly' became phenomenally abundant by 1988, decimating the zooplankton and virtually destroying the region's anchovy and sprat fisheries. Blooms of dinoflagellates that produce sometimes-lethal paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) have resulted from introductions of these plankton to Australia and probably other parts of the world. In China, the mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis is the second intermediate host of this debilitating human parasite; human hosts are infected by eating raw or inadequately cooked, infected crabs. With the mitten crab now established in the Bay Area, and snails available that are capable of serving as first intermediate hosts, the lung fluke could become established in California.

Mnemiopsis leidyi

DISEASE 'red tide'-forming dinoflagellates and other bloom-forming plankton Oriental lung fluke

cholera pathogen Vibrio In 1991 during the South American cholera epidemic, ships' cholerae ballast water from that continent arriving in U. S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico frequently carried the cholera pathogen, which was also found in fish and oysters in those ports.

herbicides, and releasing biocontrol agents, at a cost that reached $400,000/year (L. Thomas, pers. comm., 1994), though it only partly alleviated the problems. (d) Water System Fouling The Asian freshwater clam Corbicula fluminea plugged condenser tubes at the federal water project's pumping plant in the South Delta, colonized the bed of the project's Delta-Mendota Canal (trapping sediment and forming bars that reduced delivery capacity, requiring the dewatering of the canal and the dredging of over 50,000 cubic yards of clam-bearing material), and in southern California plugged underground pipes, turnout valves, and irrigation sprinklers (Ingram, 1959; Hanna, 1966; Eng, 1979).

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(e) Bank Burrowing As discussed earlier in this chapter under "Bio-eroders," several introduced species burrow in and damage both natural banks and man-made embankments, including muskrat, two species of crayfish and the Chinese mitten crab in fresh and brackish areas, and the isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum in the more saline waters of the Bay. In addition, we have found the styrofoam blocks that provide flotation for marina docks frequently riddled with Sphaeroma burrows, and though no quantitative data are available, it seems that this must substantially shorten their lifetime. (f) Predation and Competition Harming Economically Important Species Several intentional introductions may have had the "side effect" of reducing populations of other economically important species. Economically important species in this context include both species that are hunted or fished, and species that, because of their declining populations, become listed or become candidates for listing under the state or federal endangered species act (or otherwise become species of special concern), triggering limitations on economic activities. Examples of such "side effects" suggested by various researchers include the following. In the 19th century, the destruction of water celery, a common duck food, by introduced carp might have reduced populations of canvasback and other ducks (Smith, 1896, citing Jordan & Gilbert, 1894). Shebley (1917) reported carp to be the principal cause of destruction of the Sacramento perch, by eating its eggs and digging up its nests. Moyle (pers. comm.) has suggested that predation by striped bass and black bass may have been the major cause of the elimination of Sacramento perch from the Delta. McGinnis (1984) suggests that competition with introduced sunfish was the cause. Several workers have suggested that threadfin shad compete with the fry of gamefish, including black bass (McConnell & Gerdes, 1961; Von Geldern & Mitchil, 1975), crappie (McConnell & Gerdes (1961) and striped bass (McGinnis, 1984). Inland silverside may compete with striped bass (McGinnis, 1984) and prey on the eggs and fry of the endangered Delta smelt (BDOC, 1994; Moyle, pers. comm.). The Shasta crayfish Pacifastacus fortis was proposed for listing, in large part due to competition from the introduced crayfish Orconectes virilis and Pacifastacus leniusculus (Anon., 1987). (g) Prevention and Control Costs Substantial costs have been incurred through efforts to eradicate populations of two predaceous, nonindigenous fish present in the Delta watershedwhite bass and northern pikebefore they reach the Delta where it is feared they would reduce populations of endangered species and sport fish. For both fish, eradication efforts have centered around massive applications of the fish poison rotenone. The northern pike effort, for example, was preceded by three years of environmental review and litigation

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and a ban on fishing in the area (resulting in economic losses to the local economy), followed by the application of 12 semi-trailer loads of rotenone by 60 workers who were on site for over two weeks, with the cost of the on-site work alone totaling over a million dollars. The costs due to nontarget fish kills (which were substantial), other environmental health costs and occupational health costs are unknown. The effort failed to eradicate northern pike from the watershed. (h) Instability and Management Uncertainty The greatest impact from introductions to the Estuary may be restrictions on the operation of the California water system. In recent years a combination of litigation, new legislation, and regulatory realignment has placed increasing environmental demands on the water agencies that store and divert water from the Estuary's watershed (DWR, 1993). Specifically, the agencies' ability to withdraw water increasingly depends on whether they can restore and sustain healthy populations of anadromous and native fish. This in turn will depend on the water agencies' and regulators' level of understanding of the ecosystem and their ability to figure out the necessary habitat conditions, including the amount and timing of instream flows needed, to maintain the fish. However, the achievement of an adequate level of understanding to reliably manage the Estuary is severely hampered by a rate of introduction averaging (at least) one new species established in the Estuary every 24 weeks. For example, the arrival, growth and spread of the Asian clam Potamocorbula amurensis in 1986-87 appears to have fundamentally altered trophic relations in the northern reach of the Estuary, and perhaps made models and calculations based on pre-1987 data obsolete and irrelevant (Nichols, 1985; Cohen, 1990; Alpine & Cloern, 1992; Cohen & Carlton, 1995). A constantly changing species composition may make the ecosystem even less stable, and major functional shifts more common. Under such conditions, the reliable management of the Estuary required of (and promised by) the water agencies may be impossible. Since water from the Estuary's watershed supports much of California's population, industry and agriculture, the costs of failure could be substantial. 3. SOME EXAMPLES OF POTENTIAL IMPACTS (a) Food Resources Some organisms introduced to the Estuary might possibly be harvested and marketed. The European green crab Carcinus maenas, the Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis, and the yellowfin goby are commercially harvested for food in parts of their native range (Cohen et al., 1995). The Asian sea squirt Styela clava is harvested and eaten in Korea (Abbott & Newberry, 1980). Water hyacinth leaves are sold as a vegetable in markets in the Philippines (Ladines & Lontoc, 1983).

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(b) Disease Hallegraeff and his coworkers have demonstrated that toxic dinoflagellates that produce paralytic shellfish poisons (PSP) were introduced to Australia from Japan in ballast water sediments (Hallegraeff et al., 1989; Hallegraeff & Bolch, 1991). The introduction of toxic dinoflagellates to the northeastern Pacific could have costly impacts. In the Philippines, three outbreaks in five years of a PSP-producing dinoflagellate previously unreported from the region cost the local mussel industry about $15 million, poisoned over a thousand people and killed at least thirty-four (Corrales & Gomez, 1989). In San Francisco Bay clams and mussels are commonly collected for food in a poorly monitored and largely unregulated sport fishery (Sutton, 1981). Although there is no commercial shellfishery in the Bay, dinoflagellates that arrive there in ballast water could be readily carried by coastal currents or by coastal transport of ballast water to commercial shellfish beds to the north. In July, 1991 during the South American cholera epidemic, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration discovered the causative organism of cholera, Vibrio cholerae, in oysters and fish from Mobile Bay, Alabama. Subsequently sampling of ballast water from nine ships arriving in Alabama and Mississippi from South America revealed Vibrio cholerae in one third of them (US Federal Register, 1991). It has been suggested that cholera could have initially reached South America via ballast water (Ditchfield, 1993).

(C) FUTURE INVASIONS

Many transport vectors releasing exotic species into the San Francisco Estuary remain active, and new invasions are certain to occur. These fall into eight categories discussed below, for each of which we give examples of potential invaders. In addition, at least 36 species of introduced aquatic plants, snails, fish, and one turtle are established in regions adjacent to the greater Bay-Delta system (Table 9), some of which will undoubtedly spread into the Estuary. 1. ONGOING INOCULATIONS BY BALLAST WATER FROM OUTSIDE THE NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC Ships release in ballast water scores if not hundreds of new species on a monthly basis into the San Francisco Estuary (Table 10). That this highly successful vector remains active in the Estuary is indicated both by the number of new invasions now occurring (Table 1) and by the continual appearance but uncertain establishment of both small and large crustaceans in the Bay (Table 8). Around the world there have been a number of important invasions, linked to ballast water release, whose temperate climate biology suggest that these species could become established in the San Francisco Estuary. Ballast water from Japan could include the larvae of the carnivorous North Pacific Sea Star Asterias amurensis and several species of Japanese dinoflagellates not yet established in San

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Table 8. Recent Records of Nonindigenous Species in the San Francisco Estuary whose Establishment is Uncertain Native Range Date Collected Comments (references)

Species

INVERTEBRATES
Mollusca: Gastropoda Prosobranchia Littorina littorea ne Atlantic 1968-70, 14 collected at Alameda & Bay Farm 1976-77, islands in the northern South Bay in 19681995 70, 6 collected at Selby on the east shore of San Pablo Bay in 1976-77 (Carlton, 1969, 1979a). ANC collected one specimen on the San Francisco shore in 1995.

Arthropoda: Crustacea Isopoda Ianiropsis serricaudis Munna sp. A Sphaeroma sp. Amphipoda Ampithoe sp. Calliopiella sp. Dulichia monocantha Listriella goleta Synchelidium miraculum Decapoda Exopalaemon carinicauda Exopalaemon sp. unidentified Pandalid shrimp VERTEBRATES Fish Anguilla anguilla Anguilla rostrata

Sea of Japan ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

1977 Oakland Estuary (Carlton, 1979a). 1993/94 (J. Chapman. pers. comm., 1995). 1994 (J. Chapman. pers. comm., 1995). 1993/94 1993/94 1990s 1990s 1990s (J. Chapman. pers. comm., 1995). (J. Chapman. pers. comm., 1995). (M. Kellogg, pers. comm., 1995). (M. Kellogg, pers. comm., 1995). Collected in Los Angeles Harbor in the late 1980s. (G. Gillingham, M. Kellogg, H. Peterson, pers. comm., 1995). Collected in Los Angeles Harbor in the late 1980s. One specimen (L. Holthuis, pers. comm., 1993). One specimen, possibly E. carinicauda (K. Hieb, pers. comm., 1995). One specimen (R. Van Syoc, pers. comm., 1995).

Korea, China, Hong Kong unknown unknown

1993 1995 1995

Atlantic, Europe Atlantic, eN&S America

1969 1964, 1994

European Eel, one specimen (Skinner, 1971). American Eel, one specimen caught in each of 1964 & 1994. A fourth and unidentified eel, dated 1987, estimated 1 m length, is preserved at the Skinner Fish Facility in the Delta (Skinner, 1971; S. Walker, pers. comm., 1994). Alligator Gar, one specimen, 146 cm long (Raquel, 1992).

Lepisosteus spatula

se U S & Mississippi basin

1991

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Francisco Bay which, however, have become important invaders in southern Tasmania in a similar climatic regime (Carlton et al., 1995). Water from bays and estuaries of the American mid-Atlantic coast could include the Atlantic comb jelly Mnemiopsis leidyi, which has become a devastating zooplankton and larval fish predator in the Black and Azov Sea ecosystems (Shushkina & Musayeva, 1990; Mutlu et al., 1994) and the Japanese crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus, which was collected in 1988 in New Jersey (McDermott, 1991) and has now spread from North Carolina to Cape Cod (G. Ruiz, pers. comm., 1995; JTC, pers. obs.). The appearance of several Atlantic coast invertebrates in the San Francisco Estuary over the past 15 years (discussed under "Transport Mechanisms" in Chapter 5) suggests that the transport of additional organisms from the Atlantic is not unlikely. Ballast water from Europe could transport the freshwater-oligohaline gammarid amphipod Corophium curvispinum, a major fouling organism (Carlton et al., 1996). These are clearly only a few out of scores of examples of known invaders that have become established elsewhere and which, should they hop on the ballast water conveyor belt, would be rapidly transported to the Estuary. In addition, we expect there are many organisms which have not invaded regions outside of their native range, but which could yet become potent invaders (as was the case with the Chinese clam, Potamocorbula amurensis, which entered the Estuary in 1986). 2. INTRACOASTAL TRANSPORT WITH SHIP TRAFFIC Coastal ship traffic plays an unknown but potentially important role in transporting invasions that have established elsewhere on the Pacific coast to the Estuary. Examples include the transport of ballast water from the Columbia River (potentially transporting the Asian copepod Pseudodiaptomus inopinus, now well established there; Cordell et al., 1992) and from Pacific Northwest bays (which could include whole floating plants of the Japanese eelgrass Zostera japonica, which now occurs from Coos Bay to British Columbia). The arrival of the Atlantic oligochaete Lumbricillus lineatus in the Bay is also predictable, and should be specifically looked for in enriched sediments. Coates and Ellis (1980) have noted its establishment in pulp mill effluent sites in northern Vancouver Island, where it was introduced by international ship traffic. Ballast water transport or ship fouling could play the central role in bringing to San Francisco Bay a number of species of Asian and Atlantic seasquirts that have become established in the harbors of southern California since the 1980s (G. Lambert, pers. comm., 1995). Indeed, ship fouling from these harbors is probably how the Japanese seasquirt Ciona savignyi arrived in San Francisco Bay, having previously become established in southern California. Coastal ship traffic from the south or the north may similarly have carried the Japanese seaweed Sargassum muticum as hull fouling into the Bay. Similarly, coastal ship traffic may transport introduced organisms now established in the San Francisco Estuary, including many known in the northeastern Pacific only from the Estuary (Appendix 4), to other sites along the coast. The Estuary has likely operated in the past, and will likely continue to operate in the future, as the port of entry for many invasions of the Pacific coast.

Page 205 Table 9. Introduced Species in Adjacent Areas with the Potential to Invade the San Francisco Estuary Native Range: southwestern N - North S - South n - northern s - southern NEC SC SCC e - eastern midw - midwestern ne - northeastern nw - northwestern se - southeastern sw -

Now Present in: BA CC CV NCC Taxon

San Francisco Bay Area Central California Central Valley North Coastal California Species

Northeastern California Southern California South Coastal California

SJV San Joaquin Valley SV Sacramento Valley WSN west slope of the Sierra Nevada

Common Name

Native Range

Now Present in:

PLANTS
Vascular Plants Dicotyledones

Monocotyledones

Ludwigia peploides water primrose s S America CV var. montevidensis Nymphaea mexicana yellow waterlilly se U S & Mexico SJV Nymphaea odorata fragrant waterlilly eUS SV Polygonum hydropiper marshpepper Europe CC Polygonum pennsylvanicum pinkweed eUS SV Polygonum prolificum eUS BA Tamarix spp. tamarisk Europe, Asia or Africa BA, SV, SJV Alisma lanceolatum Eurasia & n Africa BA, SV, WSN Aponogeton distachyon cape pondweed s Africa BA Cyperus difformis Old World BA, CV Echinocloa oryzoides Eurasia SV Eleocharis pachycarpa Chile WSN Fimbristylis miliacea Old World tropics CV Heteranthera limosa midw & e U S, tropical America SV Hydrilla verticillata hydrilla Eurasia or central Africa SV Najas gracillima thread-leaved water-nymph ne U S SV Najas graminea rice-field water-nymph tropical Asia SV Ottelia alismoides Africa, India, sw Pacific SV? Peltandra virginica tuckahoe e N America SJV Scirpus mucronatus Eurasia BA, SV Scirpus tuberosus Europe BA, CV

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Table 9. Introduced Species in Adjacent Areas - continued Taxon Species Common Name Native Range Now Present in:

IN V E R T E B R A T E S
Mollusca: Gastropoda Planorbella duryi Pseudosuccinea columella Radix auricularia Seminole ram's horn mimic lymnaea big ear radix Florida eUS Europe NCC, SC CC, SC BA, CV, SC

VERTEBRATES
Fish

Esox lucius Hypomesus nipponensis Lepomis gibbosus Micropterus coosae Micropterus puntulatus Morone chrysops Notropsis lutrensis Salmo trutta Salvenius fontinalis Tinca tinca Trionyx spiniferus

northern pike wakasagi pumpkinseed redeye bass spotted bass white bass red shiner brown trout brook trout tench spiny soft-shell turtle

north-central U S & Canada Japan eUS se U S s & midw U S midw U S south-central U S Europe eUS Europe se U S & Mississippi basin

WSN CV, NCC BA, SC, NEC WSN, SCC WSN WSN, SCC SJV,SC WSN WSN BA BA

Reptiles

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3. TO 7. ONGOING INOCULATIONS BY OTHER MECHANISMS: FISHERIES PRODUCTS, FISHERIES ACTIVITIES, AQUARIA RELEASES In Table 10 we list additional evidence for five additional vectors for ongoing inoculations into the Estuary. These are (3) the live bait and lobster industries (releasing not only the subject organisms but the living seaweed used as packing material and numerous associated invertebrates); (4) the herring-roe-on-kelp fishery (transporting live Macrocystis kelp and associated invertebrates into the Bay); (5) live bait releases of bait fish; (6) private party releases of fish and shellfish; and (7) releases from home or school aquaria. Each of these mechanisms is known to have resulted in the at least temporary establishment of one or more non-native species in the Estuary. There are few regulatory mechanisms in place to manage the extent or minimize the impact of these vectors.

Table 10. Examples of Ongoing Inoculations of Nonindigenous Species into the San Francisco Estuary MECHANISM: Species Inoculated BALLAST WATER: Includes a wide variety of planktonic estuarine organisms from many parts of the globe. Common types of organisms include the adult or larvae of calanoid, cyclopoid and harpacticoid copepods, spionid, polynoid and other polychaete worms, diatoms, barnacles, bivalves, snails, flatworms, decapods, chaetognaths, tintinnids, mysid shrimp, isopods, bryozoans, phoronid worms, amphipods, dinoflagellates, hydroids and other taxa (Carlton & Geller, 1993). BAIT WORM SHIPMENTS: Includes a variety of organisms from the Maine coast, including the baitworms Nereis virens and Glycera dibranchiata; the seaweeds used for packing them, especially Ascophyllum nodosum; and epiphytic seaweeds and small intertidal and epiphytic invertebrates found on the Ascophyllum. Recent examinations of such shipments arriving at bait shops in the Bay Area found large numbers of live snails, bivalves, amphipods, isopods, harpacticoid copepods, marine mites, insect larvae, polychaetes, oligochaetes, nematodes and forams (Lau, 1995; ANC & JTC, pers. obs.). This mechanism is likely responsible for the recent establishment of one Atlantic periwinkle in the Bay and the occasional presence of another. New bait worms now beginning to be marketed in California, such as the Asian worm Namalycastis abiuma, may become established in the Estuary or carry with them additional, yet unknown, organisms. HERRING-ROE-ON-KELP FISHERY: Includes the kelp Macrocystis pyrifera collected from the Channel Islands in southern California and placed in San Francisco Bay as a substrate for herring spawning (Moore & Reilly, 1989; Oda, 1989), and organisms found on Macrocystis. Although it had been thought that M. pyrifera would not reproduce and become established in the Bay, it has been found attached, and therefore reproducing, in the Bay (L. Solarzano, pers. comm., 1994; ANC & JTC, pers. obs.). LIVE BAIT FISH: Includes probable ongoing "bait bucket" releases of the red shiner Notropis lutrensis into the fresh waters of the Estuary and its tributaries (McGinnis, 1984; Jennings & Saiki, 1990).

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Table 10. Examples of Ongoing Inoculations - continued

PRIVATE PARTY RELEASES OF FISH OR SHELLFISH TO ESTABLISH FOOD OR SPORT RESOURCES: In recent years these types of releases probably account for the white bass established in the San Joaquin River drainage and northern pike established in the Feather River drainage, both likely to spread downstream to the Delta; Chinese mitten crab established in San Francisco Bay and tributary streams and likely to spread into the Delta and Central Valley rivers; blue crab collected from the Delta, the Bay, and nearby coastal waters, but not established; and possibly the alligator gar and Atlantic eels collected but not established in the Delta. Nonindigenous organisms currently imported alive to Bay Area markets, and thus readily available for release into the Estuary along with any parasites and epizoics they carry, include green-lipped mussels from New Zealand, blue crabs from Chesapeake Bay and American lobsters from Maine. The packing materials for these shellfish, sometimes discarded into the Bay from dockside restaurants and distribution and repacking centers, may contain yet additional organisms. For example, the seaweed (Ascophyllum nodosum) used to pack Atlantic lobsters was found, on arrival in the Bay Area, to contain at least 29 other species of invertebrates and 7 other species of seaweed from the Atlantic (Miller, 1969). RELEASES FROM AQUARIA: Can introduce and establish a variety of organisms, which in the past have likely included plants (and the oligochaetes and entoprocts living on them), snails, fish and turtles.

8. INTRACONTINENTAL RECREATIONAL VESSEL TRAFFIC Recreational vessels entering the San Francisco Bay and Delta from northern or eastern states have the potential to transport with them, on their hulls or in incidental water aboard the vessel, a broad variety of aquatic pest species, including aquatic weeds (such as Hydrilla), snails (such as the New Zealand snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum, introduced to the Middle Snake River system of southern Idaho, and sometimes occurring in densities of 100s of 1,000s of snails per square meter; Carlton et al., 1996), and, especially, Eurasian zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and Dreissena bugensis), which between 1993 and 1995 have been intercepted at the California border on recreational boats coming from the Midwest and the Great Lakes. Our certainty that there will be additional invasions of the Estuary stands in contrast to our limited ability to predict exactly which species (or even which trophic guilds) will invade and when they will invade. Carlton (1996b) discusses six scenarios, none mutually exclusive, that seek to explain why invasions may occur when they do; these include changes in the donor region, new donor regions, environmental changes in the recipient region, changes in the dispersal vector, the phenomenon of invasion windows, and stochastic inoculation events. All of these pertain to potential invasions of the San Francisco Estuary. A recent example of a combination of several of these processes apparently led to the successful invasion and subsequent persistence of the Asian clam Potamocorbula amurensis in the Bay (as discussed in Chapter 3).

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Predicting specific guilds of invaders is often an elusive endeavor. However, we note as an example the absence of certain truly euryhaline-oligohaline taxa from the Estuary where native marine and freshwater counterparts exist. Oglesby's (1965a) proposal that the Atlantic worm Nereis succinea was successful in the Bay because it inserted itself in this intermediate microhabitatthat is, that it was an "insertion invader"suggests that similar opportunities may be available for other taxa. We note two such examples (Table 4) among Bay isopods and amphipods. Also to be expected are further warmer-water species as new colonists in the Bay. The Bay has had a continuous history of such southern species establishing on warm bay margins, including the barnacle Balanus amphitrite, the tubeworm Ficopomatus and the bryozoan Zoobotryon.

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CHAPTER 7. CONCLUSIONS
Consideration of the biological invasions of the San Francisco Bay and Delta ecosystem has required examination of the records and status of over 400 species. Documented plant and animal invasions in the Estuary now number 212 species. An additional 123 species are listed as cryptogenicnot clearly native or introduceda number that might represent less than half of the number of candidate cryptogenic taxa. An additional 40 nonnative species were either reported previously or have been recently discovered but are not known to have become established in the Estuary, while another 36 nonnative species are established in adjacent aquatic ecosystems.

(A) MAJOR FINDINGS

1. THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY CAN NOW BE RECOGNIZED AS THE MOST INVADED AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM IN NORTH AMERICA. Nonindigenous aquatic animals and plants have had a profound impact on the ecology of this region. No shallow water habitat now remains uninvaded by exotic species and, in some regions, it is difficult to find any native species in abundance. In some regions of the Bay, 100% of the common species are introduced, creating "introduced communities." In locations ranging from freshwater sites in the Delta, through Suisun and San Pablo Bays and the shallower parts of the Central Bay to the South Bay, introduced species account for the majority of the species diversity. 212 introduced species are now recognized in the Estuary. Sixty-nine percent of these are invertebrates, 4 percent protists, 15 percent are fish and other vertebrates, and 12 percent are vascular plants. Marine introductions are dominated by species from the Western North Atlantic (41 percent), the Western North Pacific (33 percent) and the Eastern North Atlantic (15 percent). Continental introductions are dominated by species from North America (54 percent, mostly fish) and from Eurasia (29 percent, mostly plants). In addition to the 212 introductions reported, 123 species are reported as cryptogenic (not clearly native or introduced), and the total number of cryptogenic taxa in the Estuary might well be twice that. Thus simply reporting the documented introductions and assuming that all other species in a region are nativeas virtually all previous studies have doneseverely underestimates the impact of marine and aquatic invasions on a region's biota. Despite issues related to data quality that may frustrate efforts to detect refined temporal patterns of invasions, the first collection records of over 50 non-native species in the Estuary since 1970 appear to reflect a significant new pulse of invasions. In the period since the beginning of introductions (here taken to be 1850), the Estuary has been invaded by an average of one new species every 36 weeks. Since 1970, the rate has been at least one new species every 24 weeks.

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2. A VAST AMOUNT OF ENERGY NOW PASSES THROUGH AND IS UTILIZED BY THE NONINDIGENOUS BIOTA OF THE ESTUARY. IN THE 1990S, INTRODUCED SPECIES DOMINATE MANY OF THE ESTUARY'S FOOD WEBS. The major bloom-creating, dominant phytoplankton species are cryptogenic. Because of the poor state of taxonomic and biogeographic knowledge, it remains possible that many of the Estuary's major primary producers that provide the phytoplankton-derived energy for zooplankton and filter feeders, are in fact introduced. Introduced species are abundant and dominant among the zooplankton in the northern part of the Estuary, and throughout the benthic and fouling communities of San Francisco Bay. On the intertidal and sublittoral soft-bottom floors of the Bay these include 10 species of introduced bivalves, most of which are abundant to extremely abundant. Introduced filter-feeding polychaetes and crustaceans may occur by the thousands per square meter. On subtidal hard substrates, the mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis is abundant, while sublittoral substrates (such as float fouling communities) support large populations of introduced filter feeders, including bryozoans, sponges and seasquirts. The holistic role of the entire nonindigenous filter-feeding guildincluding clams, mussels, bryozoans, barnacles, seasquirts, spionid worms, serpulid worms, sponges, hydroids, and sea anemonesin altering and controlling the trophic dynamics of the Bay-Delta system remains unknown. The potential role of just one species, the Atlantic ribbed marsh mussel Arcuatula demissa, as a biogeochemical agent in the economy of Bay salt marshes is striking. Introduced benthic clams are capable of filtering the entire volume of the South Bay and Suisun Bay once a day; indeed it now appears that the primary mechanism controlling phytoplankton biomass during summer and fall in South San Francisco Bay is "grazing" (filter feeding) by the introduced clams Gemma, Venerupis, and Musculista. This remarkable process thus has a significant impact on the standing phytoplankton stock in the South Bay, and since these stocks are now being utilized almost entirely by introduced filter feeders, passing the energy through a non-native benthic fraction of the biota may have fundamentally altered the energy available for native biota Drought year control of phytoplankton by introduced clamsresulting in the failure of the summer diatom bloom to appear in the northern reach of the Estuaryis a remarkable phenomenon. The introduced soft-shell clams (Mya) alone were estimated to be capable at times of filtering all of the phytoplankton from the water column on the order of once per day. Phytoplankton blooms occurred only during higher flow years, when the populations of Mya and other introduced benthic filter feeders retreated downstream to saltier parts of the Estuary. However, phytoplankton populations in the northern reach of the Estuary may now be continuously and permanently and controlled by introduced clams. Arriving by ballast water and first collected in the Estuary in 1986, by 1988 the Asian clam Potamocorbula reached and has since sustained

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average densities exceeding 2,000/m2. Since the appearance of Potamocorbula, the summer diatom bloom has disappeared, presumably because of increased filter feeding by this new invasion. The Potamocorbula population in the northern reach of the Estuary can filter the entire water column over the channels more than once per day and over the shallows almost 13 times per day, a rate of filtration which exceeds the phytoplankton's specific growth rate and approaches or exceeds the bacterioplankton's specific growth rate. Potamocorbula feeds at multiple levels in the food chain, consuming bacterioplankton, phytoplankton, and zooplankton (copepods), and so may substantially reduce copepod populations both by depletion of the copepods' phytoplankton food source and by direct predation. In turn, under such conditions, the copepod-eating native opossum shrimp Neomysis may suffer a near-complete collapse in the northern reach. It was during one such pattern that mysid-eating juvenile striped bass suffered their lowest recorded abundance. This example and the linkages between introduced and native species may provide a direct and remarkable example of the potential impact of an introduced species on the Estuary's food webs. As with the guild of filter feeders, the overall picture of the impact of introduced epibenthic and shallow-infaunal grazers and deposit feeders in the Estuary is incompletely known. The Atlantic mudsnail Ilyanassa is likely playing a significantif not the most importantrole in altering the diversity, abundance, size distribution, and recruitment of many species on the intertidal mudflats of San Francisco Bay. The arrival and establishment of the green crab Carcinus maenas in San Francisco Bay signals a new level of trophic change and alteration. The green crab is a food and habitat generalist, capable of eating an extraordinarily wide variety of animals and plants, and capable of inhabiting marshes, rocky substrates, and fouling communities. European, South African, and recent Californian studies indicate a broad and striking potential for this crab to significantly alter the distribution, density, and abundance of prey species, and thus to profoundly alter community structure in the Bay.

Nearly 30 species of introduced marine, brackish and freshwater fish are now important carnivores throughout the Bay and Delta. Carp, mosquitofish, catfish, green sunfish, bluegills, inland silverside, largemouth and smallmouth bass, and striped bass are among the most significant predators, competitors, and habitat disturbers throughout the brackish and freshwater reaches of the Delta, with often concomitant impacts on native fish communities. The introduced crayfish Procambarus and Pacifastacus may play an important role, when dense, in regulating their prey plant and animal populations.

Native waterfowl in the Estuary consume some introduced aquatic plants (such as brass buttons) and native shorebirds feed extensively on introduced benthic invertebrates.

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3. INTRODUCED SPECIES MAY BE CAUSING PROFOUND STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO SOME OF THE ESTUARY'S HABITATS. Spartina alterniflora, which has converted 100s of acres of mudflats in Willapa Bay, Washington, into cordgrass islands, has become locally abundant in San Francisco Bay, and is competing with the native cordgrass. Spartina alterniflora has broad potential for ecosystem alteration. Its larger and more rigid stems, greater stem density, and higher root densities may decrease habitat for native wetland animals and infauna. Dense stands of S. alterniflora may cause changes in sediment dynamics, decreases in benthic algal production because of lower light levels below the cordgrass canopy, and loss of shorebird feeding habitat through colonization of mudflats. The Australian-New Zealand boring isopod Sphaeroma quoyanum creates characteristic "Sphaeroma topography" on many Bay shores, with many linear meters of fringing mud banks riddled with its half-centimeter diameter holes. This isopod may arguably play a major, if not the chief, role in erosion of intertidal soft rock terraces along the shore of San Pablo Bay, due to their boring activity that weakens the rock and facilitates its removal by wave action. Sphaeroma has been burrowing into Bay shores for over a century, and it thus may be that in certain regions the land/water margin has retreated by a distance of at least several meters due to this isopod's boring activities.

4. WHILE NO INTRODUCTION IN THE ESTUARY HAS UNAMBIGUOUSLY CAUSED THE EXTINCTION OF A NATIVE SPECIES, INTRODUCTIONS HAVE LED TO THE COMPLETE HABITAT OR REGIONAL EXTIRPATION OF SPECIES, HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBAL EXTINCTION OF A CALIFORNIA FRESHWATER FISH, AND ARE NOW STRONGLY
CONTRIBUTING TO THE FURTHER DEMISE OF ENDANGERED MARSH BIRDS AND MAMMALS.

Introduced freshwater and anadromous fish have been directly implicated in the regional reduction and extinction, and the global extinction, of four native California fish. The bluegill, green sunfish, largemouth bass, striped bass, and black bass, through predation and through competition for food and breeding sites, have all been associated with the regional elimination of the native Sacramento perch from the Delta. The introduced inland silverside may be a significant predator on the larvae and eggs of the native Delta smelt. Expansion of the introduced smallmouth bass has been associated with the decline in the native hardhead. Predation by largemouth bass, black bass and striped bass may have been a major factor in the global extinction of the thicktail chub in California. The situation of the California clapper rail may serve as a model to assess how an endangered species may be affected by biological invasions. The rail suffers predation by introduced Norway rats and red fox; it may both feed on and be killed by introduced mussels; and it may find refuge in introduced cordgrass,

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although this same cordgrass may compete with native cordgrass, perhaps preferred by the rail. Other potential model study systems include introduced crayfish and their displacement of native crayfish; introduced gobies and their relationship to the tidewater goby; and the combined role that introduced green sunfish, bluegill, largemouth bass, and American bullfrog may have played in the dramatic decline of native red-legged and yellow-legged frogs.

5. THOUGH THE ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF INTRODUCED ORGANISMS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY ARE SUBSTANTIAL, THEY ARE POORLY QUANTIFIED. Though some of the fish intentionally introduced into the Estuary by government agencies supported substantial commercial food fisheries, these fisheries all declined after a time and are now closed. The signal crayfish from Oregon, whose means of introduction is unclear, supports the Estuary's only remaining commercial food fishery based on an introduced species. The striped bass sport fishery has resulted in a substantial transfer of funds from anglers to those who supply anglers' needs, variously estimated, between 1962 and 1992, between $7 million and $45 million per year. However, striped bass populations and the striped bass sport fishery have declined dramatically in recent years. Government introductions of organisms for sport fishing, as forage fish and for biocontrol have frequently not produced the intended benefits, and have sometimes had harmful "side effects," such as reducing the populations of economically important species. Few nonindigenous organisms that were introduced to the Estuary by other than government intent have produced economic benefits. The clams Mya and Venerupis, bothaccidentally introduced with oysters, have supported commercial harvesting in the Bay or elsewhere on the Pacific coast, and a small amount of recreational harvesting in the Bay (though these clams may have, to some extent, replaced edible native clams); the Asian clam Corbicula is commercially harvested for food and bait in California on a small scale; the Asian yellowfin goby is commercially harvested for bait; muskrat are trapped for furs; and the South African marsh plant brass buttons provides food for waterfowl. There do not appear to be any other significant economic benefits that derive from nongovernmental or accidental introductions to the Estuary. A single introduced organism, the shipworm Teredo navalis, caused $615 million (in 1992 dollars) of structural damage to maritime facilities in 3 years. The economic impacts of hull fouling and other ship fouling are clearly very large, but are not documented or quantified for the Estuary. Most of the fouling incurred in the Estuary is due to nonindigenous species. Indirect impacts due to the use of toxic anti-fouling coatings may also be substantial.

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Waterway fouling by introduced water hyacinth has become a problem in the Delta over the last fifteen years, with other introduced plants beginning to add to the problem in recent years. Hyacinth fouling has had significant economic impacts, including interference with navigation. Perhaps the greatest economic impacts may derive from the destabilizing of the Estuary's biota due to the introduction and establishment of an average of one new species every 24 weeks. This phenomenal rate of species additions has contributed to the failure of water users and regulatory agencies to manage the Estuary so as to sustain healthy populations of anadromous and native fish, resulting in increasing limitations and threats of limitations on water diversions, wastewater discharges, channel dredging, levee maintenance, construction and other economic activities in and near the Estuary, with implications for the whole of California's economy.

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(B) RESEARCH NEEDS

Much remains unknown in terms of the phenomena, patterns, and processes of invasions in the Bay and Delta, and thus large gaps remain in the knowledge needed to establish effective management plans. The following are examples of important research needs and directions: 1. EXPERIMENTAL ECOLOGY OF INVASIONS As discussed in Chapter 3, only a few of the hundreds of invaders in the Estuary have been the subject of quantitative experimental studies elucidating their roles in the Estuary's ecosystem and their impacts on native biota. Such studies should receive the highest priority. 2. REGIONAL SHIPPING STUDY Urgently required is a San Francisco Bay Shipping Study which both updates the 1991 data base available and expands that data base to all Bay and Delta ports. A biological and ecological study of the nature of ballast water biota arriving in the Bay/Delta system is urgently required. Equally pressing is a study of the fouling organisms entering the Estuary on ships' hulls and in ships' seachests, in order to assess whether this mechanism is now becoming of increasing importance and in order to more adequately define the unique role of ballast water. A Regional Shipping Study would provide critical data for management plans. 3. INTRAREGIONAL HUMAN-MEDIATED DISPERSAL VECTORS Studies are required on the mechanisms and the temporal and spatial scales of the distribution of introduced species by human vectors after they have become established. Such studies will be of particular value in light of any future introductions of nuisance aquatic pests. 4. STUDY OF THE BAITWORM AND LOBSTER SHIPPING INDUSTRIES Our work has identified a major, unregulated vector for exotic species invasions in the Bay: the constant release of invertebrate-laden seaweeds from New England in association with bait worm (and lobster) importation. In addition a new trade in exotic bait has commenced, centered around the importation of living Vietnamese nereid worms, and both the worms and their substrate deserve detailed study. These studies are urgently needed to address the attendant precautionary management issues at hand. 5. MOLECULAR GENETIC STUDIES OF INVADERS The application of modern molecular genetic techniques has already revealed the cryptic presence of previously unrecognized invaders in the Bay: the Atlantic clam Macoma petalum, the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis, and the Japanese jellyfish Aurelia "aurita." Molecular genetic studies of the Bay's new green crab (Carcinus) population may be of critical value in resolving the crab's geographic origins

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and thus the mechanism that brought it to California. Molecular genetic studies of worms of the genus Glycera and Nereis in the Bay may clarify if New England populations have or are becoming established in the region as a result of ongoing inoculations via the bait worm industry. Molecular analysis of other invasions will doubtless reveal, as with Macoma and Mytilus, a number of heretofore unrecognized species. 6. INCREASED UTILIZATION OF EXOTIC SPECIES Fishery, bait, and other utilization studies should be conducted on developing or enlarging the scope of fisheries for introduced bivalves (such as Mya, Venerupis, and Corbicula), edible aquatic plants, smaller edible fish (such as Acanthogobius), and crabs (Carcinus and Eriocheir). 7. POTENTIAL ZEBRA MUSSEL INVASION Studies are needed on the potential distribution, abundance and impacts of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha and/or D. bugensis) in California, to support efforts to control their introduction and to design facilities (such as water intakes and fish screens) that will continue to function adequately should the mussels become established. 8. ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF WOOD BORERS AND FOULING ORGANISMS The economic impacts of wood-boring organisms (shipworms and gribbles) and of fouling organisms (on commercial vessels, on recreational craft, in ports and marinas, and in water conduits) are clearly very large in the San Francisco Estuary, but remain largely undocumented and entirely unquantified. A modern economic study of this phenomenon, including the economic costs and ecological impacts of control measures now in place or forecast, is critically needed. 9. ECONOMIC, ECOLOGICAL AND GEOLOGICAL IMPACTS OF BIOERODING NONINDIGENOUS SPECIES Largely qualitative data suggest that the economic, ecological, and geological impacts of the guild of burrowing organisms that have been historically and newly introduced have been or are forecast to potentially be extensive in the Estuary. Experimental, quantitative studies on the impacts of burrowing and bioeroding crustaceans and muskrats in the Estuary are clearly now needed to assess the extent of changes that have occurred or are now occurring, and to form the basis for predicting future alterations in the absence of control measures. 10. POST-INVASION CONTROL MECHANISMS While primary attention must be paid to preventing future invasions, studies should begin on examining the broad suite of potential post-invasion control mechanisms, including biocontrol, physical containment, eradication, and related strategies. A Regional Control Mechanisms Workshop for past and anticipated invasions could set the foundation for future research directions.

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APPENDIX 1(A).

INTRODUCED TERRESTRIAL PLANTS, BIRDS AND MAMMALS REPORTED FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY.
n - northern s - southern e - eastern w - western

Native Range: Listed in:

N - North S - South

D1 Madrone Assoc. (1980), reported in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta D2 Herbold & Moyle (1989), Appendix A: Vascular Plants of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta TM Atwater et al. (1979), Table 3: Common Introductions in Tidal Marshes of the San Francisco Bay Area GL HR Mills et al. (1993), nonindigenous aquatic plants and algae of the Great Lakes Mills et al. (1995), nonindigenous organisms in the Hudson River Common Name Native Range Listed in:

Species

PLANTS
Vascular Plants Dicotyledones Apium graveolens Atriplex semibaccata Carpobrotus edulis Chenopodium album Cirsium vulgare Conium maculatum Cotula australis Dipsacus fullonum Foeniculum vulgare Melilotus alba Mentha arvensis Mentha x piperita Phyla nodiflora Plantago major Rumex crispus Solanum dulcamara Solanum nigrum or americanum Tetragonia tetragonioides Veronica anagallis-aquatica Monocotyledones Arundo donax Bromus diandrus Bromus hordeaceus Cortaderia selloana Echinocloa crus-galli Festuca pratensis Hordeum murinum Polypogon monspeliensis celery Australian salt bush iceplant lambs' quarters bull thistle poison hemlock wild teasel fennel white sweetclover peppermint mat-grass common plantain curly dock bittersweet nightshade New Zealand spinach water speedwell giant reed ripgut grass soft chess pampas grass barnyard grass meadow fescue hare barley rabbit's-foot grass Eurasia Australia s Africa Europe Europe Europe Australia Europe s Europe Eurasia Europe? e N America? Europe S America Europe Eurasia n Eurasia Eurasia or S America New Zealand, Australia Europe Europe Eurasia Eurasia e S America Eurasia and Africa Europe Europe s & w Europe TM D2, TM D2 TM D1, D2, TM D1, D2, TM (GL) TM TM D1, D2, TM D1, D2, TM TM (GL, HR) D1, D2, TM TM D1, D2, TM (HR) TM (GL, HR) D2, TM (HR) D2 D1, D2 D1,D2,TM TM D1, D2, TM D1 (GL, HR) TM TM D1, D2, TM

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Species VERTEBRATES Birds Columba livia Passer domesticus Phasianus colchicus Sturnus vulgaris Mammals Felis felis Mus musculus Rattus norvegicus Vulpes vulpes

Common Name

Native Range

pigeon, rock dove house sparrow ring-necked pheasant starling cat house mouse Norway rat red fox

Eurasia Eurasia Asia Eurasia Eurasia Eurasia Eurasia e & midw N America

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APPENDIX 1(B). DESCRIPTIONS OF INTRODUCED TERRESTRIAL PLANTS REPORTED FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY
Dicotyledones Apium graveolens Linnaeus [APIACEAE] CELERY Celery is a native of Eurasia, widely cultivated and commonly naturalized in wet places at low elevations in California (Jepson, 1951; Munz 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary. Atriplex semibaccata R. Br. [CHENOPODIACEAE] AUSTRALIAN SALTBUSH Australian saltbush, drought-resistant and adapted to alkaline soils, was introduced to the United States as a forage plant according to Robbins et al. (1941), although Spicher & Josselyn (1985) say that it was introduced in ships' ballast. It is commonly found in waste places, shrubland and woodland throughout most of California (except for parts of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada), to Utah, Texas and northern Mexico (Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in tidal marshes in all parts of the San Francisco Estuary, and it is reported as occasional in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). We've observed it just above and occasionally below the highest tidemarks in San Francisco Bay saltmarshes, on dikes and on riprapped banks. Carpobrotus edulis (Linnaeus) N. E. Br. [AIZOACEAE] SYNONYMS: Mesembryanthemum edule ICEPLANT, SEA FIG Native to South Africa, iceplant was introduced into the United States in the early 1900s for erosion control along railroad tracks and has been extensively planted along highways, on sand dunes and in high fire-risk areas. Its fruits have been widely dispersed from planted areas by several native mammals, and it is now common and naturalized along much of the California and Mexican coasts, where it may compete with native species, including several threatened or endangered plants (Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; D'Antonio, 1993; Hickman, 1993; Albert, 1995). We have often seen it at the margins of salt marshes, with some plants occasionally below the level of the highest tides.

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Chenopodium album Linnaeus, 1753 [CHENOPODIACEAE] LAMB'S QUARTERS, PIGWEED A native of Europe, lamb's quarters is a common weed in waste and fallow places and along roadsides, widely distributed over North America and other temperate regions of the world (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993), and reported in California by Robbins et al. (1941) as an important host plant of the beet leafhopper. In Suisun Marsh it was found at 8 of 48 sites in a 1989 survey. In 1987, pickleweed, saltgrass and lamb's quarters comprised the principal vegetation at one site in the marsh (Herrgesell, 1990). Atwater et al. (1979) listed it as a common introduction in the tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary. Cirsium vulgare (Savi) Ten. [ASTERACEAE] BULL THISTLE, COMMON THISTLE Bull thistle is native to Europe, and is an aggressive weed in North America common in waste places (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary, and is reported as common in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Conium maculatum Linnaeus [APIACEAE] POISON HEMLOCK Poison hemlock is a native of Europe and was established in North America by 1818 (Nuttall, 1818). It is common in moist, disturbed ground at low elevations in California (Jepson, 1951; Munz 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary, and is reported as occasional in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Cotula australis (Sieber) Hook. f. [ASTERACEAE] This Australian plant was initially reported in California as occurring "along the streets of many of our towns and cities" including Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco (Robbins et al., 1941; Jepson, 1951). Munz (1959) describes it as a "very common and troublesome weed about gardens, city lots, etc." Hickman (1993) reports it as a common weed at low elevations "in urban coastal areas." Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary.

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Dipsacus fullonum Linnaeus[DIPSACACEAE] WILD TEASEL, FULLER'S TEASEL A native of Europe, wild teasel is commonly found at roadsides and in pastures, old fields and other waste places, and occasionally at moist sites, more-or-less throughout cismontane California including the San Francisco Bay Area (Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary. Foeniculum vulgare Miller [APIACEAE] FENNEL, SWEET FENNEL Fennel is native to southern Europe and widely escaped from cultivation in the western hemisphere. It is commonly found on roadsides and in waste places at low elevations (Jepson, 1951; Munz 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary, and is reported as common in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Melilotus alba Medikus [FABACEAE] WHITE SWEETCLOVER SYNONYMS: Melilotus albus This native of Eurasia is abundantly naturalized in disturbed sites in the northern United States and southern Canada. It is locally abundant in damp places in much of California (Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary, and is reported as common in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Mentha arvensis Linnaeus [LAMIACEAE] Munz (1959) reported this plant as occurring in California in "several forms that are questionable as to whether native here," Hickman (1993) states "some plants sterile; some plants naturalized from Europe," while Mills et al. (1995) describe it as a native North American mint. Jepson (1951) called Mentha arvensis the "tule-mint," common in marshes and meadows, and Hickman (1993) reports it from moist areas, stream banks and lake shores through much of California. Atwater (1980) reported it from the bank of an islet at Sand Mound Slough in the Delta.

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Mentha x piperita Linnaeus [LAMIACEAE] PEPPERMINT SYNONYMS: Mentha piperita Mentha citrata Hickman (1993) describes this plant as a generally sterile hybrid of M. aquatica and M. spicata, which propagates asexually via underground shoots (Mills et al., 1993). A native of Europe, peppermint was reported in New York by 1843 (Torrey, 1843). It is widely cultivated for its oil and is commonly escaped in Canada, the eastern United States, and California, where it is found in fields and wet places (Jepson, 1951; Mason, 1957; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary. Phyla nodiflora (Linnaeus) Greene var. nodiflora [VERBENACEAE] MAT-GRASS, GARDEN LIPPIA SYNONYMS: Phyla nodiflora var. reptans Lippia nodiflora var. rosea Lippia nodiflora var. canescens Lippia nodiflora var. reptans Lippia filiformis Zappania nodiflora var. reptans Naturalized from South America, mat-grass has been planted as groundcover and to resist erosion on levees. It is well established in low elevation wet places, ditches and fields in many parts of California including the Central Valley and the Bay Area (Jepson, 1951; Mason, 1957; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). In the Delta it has been variously listed as especially common in the region (Robbins et al., 1941), common in tidal marshes (Atwater et al., 1979), and uncommon (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). Plantago major Linnaeus [PLANTAGINACEAE] COMMON PLANTAIN, WHITE MAN'S FOOT Naturalized from Europe, common plantain is a weed of damp waste places (Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary.

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Rumex crispus Linnaeus [POLYGONACEAE] CURLY DOCK, YELLOW DOCK Native to Eurasia, curly dock was reported from New York by 1843 (Torrey, 1843) and is now an abundant weed throughout North America including California (Jepson, 1951; Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It was apparently introduced to California prior to 1769, as it is found embedded in the adobe bricks of buildings of that age (Crosby, 1986, p. 152). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in San Pablo and Suisun Bay tidal marshes in 1975 but not in 1977. Madrone Assoc. (1980) list it as common in most moist or seasonally ponded habitats in the Delta, and Herbold & Moyle (1989) list it as common in the Delta. Solanum dulcamara Linnaeus [SOLANACEAE] BITTERSWEET, CLIMBING NIGHTSHADE This member of the nightshade genus is native to northern Eurasia and was imported to North America from Europe as a remedy for rheumatism and scurvy (Torrey, 1843). It escaped and become established by 1818 (Nuttall, 1818) and is now found through much of the United States and Canada. In California it grows in moist places and marshes at low elevations along the central coast and in the Bay Area (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary. Solanum americanum or Solanum nigrum Miller [SOLANACEAE] SMALL-FLOWERED NIGHTSHADE or BLACK NIGHTSHADE SYNONYMS: see below The plant listed by Herbold & Moyle (1989) as Solanum nodiflorum, present in the Delta, and by Atwater et al. (1979) as Solanum nodifolium (possibly a typographic error), common in tidal marshes of the San Francisco Estuary, might refer to either or both of S. americanum or S. nigrum. Munz (1959) lists S. nigrum of authors as a synonym of S. nodifolium. Hickman (1993) lists S. nigrum as a native of Eurasia, found in low elevation disturbed sites and damp fields in cismontane California, including the Bay Area, and "expected elsewhere." It was reported from New York by 1843 (Torrey, 1843), where it may have either escaped from cultivation or been transported in solid ballast, as it was found on ballast dumping grounds in New York City (Brown, 1880). It is now reported as common in the eastern United States and from California to Washington. Although treating S. americanum as a native, Hickman (1993) states that it might be an early introduction from South America, listing S. nodiflorum Jacq. as a synonym.

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Tetragonia tetragonioides (Pallas) Kuntze [AIZOACEAE] SYNONYMS: Tetragonia expansa Murray NEW ZEALAND SPINACH Kozloff (1983) reported this plant as well established in California and southern Oregon, "found at the edges of salt marshes and bay shores, but decidedly above the high-tide mark." We have found it at and above the high-tide line in San Francisco Bay, often growing in among riprap, and rarely on bare soil below the high-tide line. Hickman (1993) reports it common on sand dunes, bluffs and the margins of coastal wetlands throughout coastal California. It's native range includes New Zealand, Australia and possibly other locations in Southeast Asia. It reportedly can be cooked & eaten like spinach. Veronica anagallis-aquatica Linnaeus [SCROPHULARIACEAE] WATER SPEEDWELL A native of Europe and widely naturalized in North and South America, water speedwell is occasionally found in wet meadows, on stream banks or in slow streams in California (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Herbold & Moyle (1989) report it from the Delta. Sterile hybrids with chain speedwell, Veronica catenata, have been found in some mixed populations (Hickman, 1993).

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Monocotyledones Arundo donax Linnaeus [POACEAE] GIANT REED, CARRIZO Giant reed is native to Europe (it is the reed from which reed instruments are made) and is found at moist sites, such as ditches, streams or seeps, at low elevations in cismontane and desert California (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Jepson (1951) reported it "escaped along irrigation ditches" in central and southern California. It is reported as occasional on herbaceous banks in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989), and Atwater (1980) recorded it from the bank of an islet at Sand Mound Slough in the Delta. Although it has been planted along river banks for erosion control, it is an invasive weed in some riparian areas in California and the Nature Conservancy has organized a pilot project to control it with herbicides in Riverside County (Sullivan, 1994). Bromus diandrus Roth [POACEAE] SYNONYMS: Bromus rigidus Roth. Bromus diandrus var. gussonei RIPGUT GRASS Ripgut grass is native to Eurasia. It is widely distributed in open, generally disturbed places and fields in California, and is also known from British Columbia and South America (Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list Gussone's ripgut grass as common in the landward fringes of tidal marshes around San Pablo and Suisun bays, and Madrone Assoc. (1980) and Herbold & Moyle (1989) report it as from the Delta. Bromus hordeaceus Linnaeus [POACEAE] SYNONYMS: Bromus mollis Linnaeus SOFT CHESS Soft chess is native to Eurasia, and widely distributed in the western hemisphere in open, often disturbed places (Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in the landward fringes of tidal marshes around San Pablo and Suisun bays.

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Cortaderia selloana (Schultes) Asch. & Graebner [POACEAE] PAMPAS GRASS Pampas grass is a native of eastern South America, escaped from cultivation in coastal California and the southern U. S. and common in disturbed places at low elevation, including the Bay Area (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in tidal marshes, mainly in the Delta, and others report it as common in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). The somewhat similar C. jubata, also reported from the Bay Area, is highly invasive. Echinocloa crusgalli (Linnaeus) Beauv. [POACEAE] BARNYARD GRASS, WATER GRASS Native to Eurasia and Africa, this plant is now found worldwide in fields, on roadsides and in wet sites (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It was reported from New York by 1803, possibly having escaped from cultivation as livestock fodder and grain (Mills et al., 1993). Robbins et al. (1941) reported it as "the most troublesome weed in California rice fields," present since the start of the rice industry, and found in all agricultural sections of the state and along streams and ditches. Madrone Assoc. (1980) described it as a typical member of the nontidal freshwater marsh community in the Delta, and Atwater (1990) found it on the banks of 4 out of 6 islets surveyed in the Delta. A single plant may produce as many as 40,000 seeds (Robbins et al., 1941). Festuca pratensis Hudson [POACEAE] SYNONYMS: Festuca elatior Linnaeus MEADOW FESCUE Native to Europe, meadow fescue is grown for forage and is found escaped from cultivation in fields and waste places in the eastern U. S. and most of California. (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in the landward fringes of tidal marshes around San Pablo and Suisun bays. Hordeum murinum Linnaeus ssp. lepinorum (link) Arcang. [POACEAE] SYNONYMS: Hordeum lepinorum Link HARE BARLEY Hare barley is native to Europe and is found in moist, generally disturbed sites in eastern U. S., northern Mexico, British Columbia, and California (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Atwater et al. (1979) list it as common in the landward fringes of tidal marshes around San Pablo and Suisun bays.

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Polypogon monspeliensis (Linnaeus) Desf. [POACEAE] RABBIT'S-FOOT GRASS, ANNUAL BEARD GRASS Rabbit's-foot grass is native to southern and western Europe and widespread and common in North America including California, along streams and ditches and in other moist places (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). It is listed by Atwater et al. (1979) as common in the landward fringes of tidal marshes around San Pablo and Suisun bays, and it is reported as common in the Delta (Madrone Assoc., 1980; Herbold & Moyle, 1989).

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APPENDIX 1(C). DESCRIPTIONS OF INTRODUCED TERRESTRIAL MAMMALS REPORTED FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY
Felis felis HOUSE CAT In the South Bay, feral cats have frequently been observed foraging in salt marshes, along salt pond levees, and wading at the edge of tidal sloughs (Foerster & Takekawa, 1991). Feral cats may be a major predator of small birds and mammals. An analysis of stomach contents of feral cats in the Sacramento Valley found occasional remains of waterfowl including pintail ducks, mallard or closely related ducks, coot, and a green heron (Hubbs, 1951). They have killed adult light-footed clapper rails (Foerster & Takekawa, 1991) and at least one California clapper rail (Takekawa, 1993). The San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in the South Bay began a predator management program in May, 1991 that includes the removal of feral cats. (Takekawa, 1993). Mus musculus HOUSE MOUSE The house mouse is native to Europe. It is common in the Delta in riparian habitats (Herbold & Moyle, 1989), and in salt and brackish marsh in San Francisco Bay (Josselyn, 1983; Harvey et al., 1992; BDOC, 1994). Rattus norvegicus NORWAY RAT The Norway rat is native to Europe, and was established in many areas in California by the mid-1880s (BDOC, 1994). It is common in the Delta in riparian and marsh areas (Herbold & Moyle, 1989), and in San Francisco Bay in salt and brackish marsh and diked areas (de Groot, 1927; Foerster & Takekawa, 1991; Harvey et al., 1992). Norway rats will feed in salt marshes, where they are often observed during the highest winter tides (Josselyn, 1983; Foerster & Takekawa, 1991). De Groot (1927) listed the Norway rat as the third most important factor in the decline of the California clapper rail (after the destruction of marshes and hunting), stating that "the Clapper Rail has no more deadly enemy than this sinister fellow. No rail dares nest on a marsh area which has been dyked, for as surely as she does this vicious enemy will track her down and destroy the eggs. Many nests have I found bearing mute evidence of the fact that some luckless rail had gambled her skill at nesthiding against the cunning of the Norway rat, only to have her home destroyed." Foerster & Takekawa (1991) report that "rats have been identified as clapper rail egg predators by several investigators." Josselyn (1983) suggests that cordgrass may

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support higher densities of clapper rail in part because of the greater protection it provides against Norway rats, which is "probably the most significant predator" of rail chicks. Norway rats reportedly take about a third of the clapper rail eggs laid in the southern part of the Estuary (BDOC, 1994). Vulpes vulpes regalis RED FOX SYNONYMS: Vulpes fulva The red foxes in California are probably descended from Iowa or Minnesota stock. They were either intentionally introduced into California by hunters or they escaped from commercial fox farms in the Central Valley in the last half of the 19th century, with a population reported from the southern Sacramento Valley in the 1870s (BDOC, 1994). Red foxes subsequently spread to the coast, reaching the east Bay area by the early 1970s (Harvey et al., 1992), and are now common in the Central Valley and in coastal counties from Sonoma south. They were first observed at the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in the South Bay in 1986, and have continued to expand their range around the Bay, invading Bair Island by 1992 (Harvey et al., 1992). They are regularly seen in the South Bay in all habitat types, and dens have been found in levee banks and salt marshes (Foerster & Takekawa, 1991). Impacts from this predator could be substantial, as it has been estimated "that a family of two adults and five pups would require about 317 pounds of food during the 12-week whelping period" (Harvey et al., 1992). In San Francisco Bay the red fox has preyed on the eggs and sometimes the young or adults, and disrupted nests or colonies, of endangered California clapper rail, least tern and snowy plover, and of Caspian tern, black-necked stilt and avocet. It may also prey on endangered salt-marsh harvest mouse, the salt marsh wandering shrew, and California black rail in the Estuary. In southern California the red fox has preyed on endangered light-footed clapper rail and California least tern (Foerster & Takekawa, 1991; Harvey et al., 1992; Takekawa, 1993; BDOC, 1994). The San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge began a predator management program in May, 1991 that includes the trapping and killing of red foxes. Red foxes control has been practiced at Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge to protect least tern and light-footed clapper rail since 1986 (Foerster & Takekawa, 1991, Takekawa, 1993).

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APPENDIX 2. EARLIER INOCULATIONS INTO THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY AND NEARBY WATERS
Species Native Range Date Planted or Collected Comments (references)

INVERTEBRATES
Porifera Tetilla sp. Cnidaria Hydrozoa Campanularia gelatinosa Halocordyle disticha n Atlantic early 1950s (C. Hand, pers. comm.; W. Hartman, pers. comm., 1977).

? n Atlantic

1859-1912 <1925, 1944-47

Turritopsis nutircola

n Atlantic

<1925

(Agassiz, 1865; Torrey, 1902; unpublished NMNH records). Reported by Fraser in 1925 (as Pennaria tiarella) without giving a date of collection. Reported on fouling panel (as Pennaria sp.) at Mare Island Naval Base in 1944-47 (US Navy, 1951). Reported by Fraser in 1925 without giving a date of collection. Undated material at NMNH labeled "probably from Oakland." Listing by Light (1941) and Rees & Hand (1975) probably based on these earlier, undated records.

Annelida Polychaeta Sabellaria spinulosa Mollusca: Bivalvia Anadara transversa, Lunarca ovalis, Aequipecten irradians, Anomia simplex Crassostrea gigas JAPANESE OYSTER

n Atlantic

1932-37

Collected by Olga Hartman between Point Richmond and Alameda (Carlton, 1979a).

Crassostrea virginica ATLANTIC OYSTER Mercenaria mercenaria QUAHOG Ostrea angasi

Ostrea chilensis

Ostrea edulis EUROPEAN OYSTER

Dead shells of these bivalves collected in the Bay were probably brought in with Atlantic oysters either as dead shells or as living organisms that failed to become established. Japan 1932-39 Planted in large numbers in the Bay during this period but, despite occasional reproductive success, never became established. Some experimental plantings since the late 1950s. (Carlton, 1979a). nw 1869-1940s Planted in large numbers in the Bay during this Atlantic period but never became established. Some experimental plantings since. (Carlton, 1979a). nw 1901, 1968 Dead valves and living specimens collected in Atlantic the Bay (Keep, 1901; Carlton, 1969). Australia about 1891, On at least two occasions small quantities of this New before 1963 oyster were imported to and possibly planted in Zealand the Bay. (Carlton, 1979a). Mexico 1868-70, This or another species of southern oyster was 1897-99 imported to and possibly planted in the Bay. (Skinner, 1962; Carlton, 1979a). Europe 1962 Experimental planting of less than 300 oysters from Milford, CT (Carlton, 1979a).

nw Atlantic

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Species Arthropoda: Crustacea Decapoda Callinectes sapidus BLUE CRAB

Native Range

Date Planted or Collected Comments (references)

nw Atlantic

1897

Homarus americanus AMERICAN LOBSTER

nw Atlantic

1874-88

Limulus polyphemus HORSESHOE CRAB

nw Atlantic

1880s?, 1917

Upogebia affinis MUD SHRIMP

n Atlantic

1912

162 crabs planted in the Bay (Vogelsang & Gould, 1900). Sporadic reports of blue crabs from Bay Area waters in recent decades. In 1994, one crab reported at the Tracy pumping plant in the Delta (S. Siegfried, pers. comm., 1994). 1873 shipment lost in train wreck. In 1874 four egg-bearing females (of 150 shipped) from Massachusetts were planted in the Bay. Four other shipments planted from San Francisco to Monterey Bay; several lobsters later caught by Monterey fishermen (Shebley, 1917). Single specimen collected from Bay in 1917. In 1995 we received a report of 2 crabs caught and released in the Central Bay whose description matched that of L. polyphemus (Scofield, 1917; Carlton, 1979a). 2 males and 2 females of this common Atlantic species were dredged by the Albatross in the Central Bay (Williams, 1986).

VERTEBRATES
Fish Ambloplites rupestris ROCK BASS Anguilla rostrata COMMON EEL Four adults from Vermont planted in Napa Creek (Shebley, 1917). nw 1873, 1879, In 1873, 12 freshwater eels from Hudson River Atlantic 1882 planted in Sacramento River, and 1500 saltwater eels from New York Harbor planted near Oakland. In 1879, 500 eels planted in Sacramento River. In 1882, 10 eels from Shrewsbury River, NY planted in Suisun Bay (Smith, 1895; Shebley, 1917). In 1964 and 1994 , one specimen caught in Delta in each year (Skinner, 1971; S. Walker, pers. comm., 1994). Hawaii 1877 100 fish planted in tributary stream in Solano County (Shebley, 1917). midw U S 1893 93,000 fry from Chatauqua Lake, NY planted in Lake Merced, San Francisco to control carp (Shebley, 1917). midw U S 1891-1950s Fish planted in rivers tributary to the Delta in & 1891 and 1908; were widely distributed by 1918; Canada extinct in the Delta by 1950s; are today present in Klamath River and Tule Lake systems in northern California (Shebley, 1917;McGinnis, 1984; Herbold & Moyle, 1989). eUS 1874

Chanos cyprinella AWA Lucius masquinongy MUSKELLUNGE Perca flavescens YELLOW PERCH

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Species Salmo salar ATLANTIC SALMON

Native Range nw Atlantic

Date Planted or Collected Comments (references) 1874, 1891, In 1874, 305 fish from Penobscot River, ME 1931 planted in Sacramento River near Redding. In 1891, 194,000 fry planted in Trinity River. In 1931, 55,000 fish planted in Smith and Klamath Rivers (Anon., 1932). 1874 16 adult pike from Vermont planted in Sacramento River near Sacramento (Goodson, 1966). 1874, 1897 A few hundred fish planted in the Bay (Shebley, 1917). 1904 and 600 grayling from Montana washed into the later Sacramento River when a pond wall at the Sisson Hatchery burst. Additional plants were made in the Sierra Nevada, but never became established (Shebley, 1917; McGinnis, 1984).

Stizostedion vitreum WALLEYED PIKE Tautoga onitis TAUTOG Thymallus articus ARCTIC GRAYLING

eUS& Canada nw Atlantic n central US& Canada

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APPENDIX 3. DESCRIPTIONS OF INTRODUCED PLANTS AND INVERTEBRATES IN AREAS ADJACENT TO THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY PLANTS
VASCULAR PLANTS Dicotyledones Ludwigia peploides var. montevidensis (Spreng.) Raven [ONAGRACEAE] WATER PRIMROSE, FALSE LOOSESTRIFE SYNONYMS: Jussiaea repens var. montevidensis Jussiaea montevidensis Ludwigia uruguayensis Native to southern South America and introduced to Europe, Australia and the southeastern U. S., water primrose is found on low elevation lake shores and stream banks in much of cismontane California including the Central Valley (Hickman, 1993). Nymphaea mexicana Zucc. [NYMPHAEACEAE] YELLOW WATERLILY, BANANA WATERLILLY Native to the southeastern U. S. and Mexico, the yellow waterlily is found in lakes, ponds and slow streams in the San Joaquin Valley. It is officially listed as a noxious weed (Hickman, 1993). Nymphaea odorata Aiton [NYMPHAEACEAE] FRAGRANT WATERLILY, WHITE WATERLILY The fragrant waterlily is native to the eastern United States and is found in quiet waters, in ponds and at the edges of lakes at widely scattered locations in California including Butte County in the Sacramento Valley, Lake Tahoe, and the San Bernardino Mountains area, and is "expected elsewhere." It is widely cultivated as an ornamental, and is officially listed as a noxious weed (Hickman, 1993).

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Polygonum hydropiper Linnaeus [POLYGONACEAE] COMMON SMARTWEED, MARSHPEPPER, WATERPEPPER Native to Europe, common smartweed was reported from New York by 1843, where it was used to make a yellow dye (Torrey, 1843). It is uncommon in wet places from central and northern California to Washington (Munz (1959; Hickman, 1993). Polygonum pennsylvanicum Linnaeus [POLYGONACEAE] PINKWEED Native to the eastern United States, where its flowers are an important waterfowl food, pinkweed is found in moist disturbed areas and drying ponds in the eastern Sacramento Valley, where it may be planted, and is "expected elsewhere" (Hickman, 1993). Polygonum prolificum (Small) Robinson [POLYGONACEAE] Native to the eastern United States, Polygonum prolificum is found in wet salty places in Napa County and in the Lake Tahoe area, and "expected elsewhere" (Hickman, 1993). Tamarix spp. [TAMARICACEAE] TAMARISK, SALT CEDAR Jepson (1951) lists one species of tamarisk in California, Munz (1959) lists four species, Munz (1968) lists seven species, and Hickman (1993) lists five species. All of these are native to Europe, Asia or Africa. Jepson (1951) reported French tamarisk, Tamarix gallica, from White Sulphur Creek in the Napa Valley; Munz (1959) reported athel, Tamarix aphylla, planted in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. Dudley & Collins (1995) describe an infestation of tamarisk covering several thousand acres of riparian and upland areas near the Kern National Wildlife Refuge in the Central Valley, and note T. chilensis, T. ramosissima, T. gallica and T. parviflora as introduced species posing a serious, documented threat to sensitive species or ecosystems in California.

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Monocotyledones Alisma lanceolatum With. [ALISMATACEAE] Native to Eurasia and northern Africa, this member of the water plantain family has been introduced to Chile, Australia, Oregon and California. It is reported from ponds, rice fields, ditches and slow streams at low elevations in northwestern California, Sonoma and Marin counties, the northern Sierra Nevada Foothills, and the Sacramento Valley (Munz, 1968; Hickman, 1993). Aponogeton distachyon Linne [APONOGETONACEAE] SYNONYMS: Aponogeton distachyus CAPE PONDWEED Cape pondweed, native to southern Africa, is widely cultivated for aquaria, often escaping but rarely becoming established. It is reported from low elevation ponds in the southern Coast range and the Bay Area, and is "expected elsewhere" (Munz, 1968; Hickman, 1993).

Cyperus difformis Linnaeus [CYPERACEAE] This plant is native to the Old World and has been introduced to Mexico and Virginia. It is found in low elevation ditches, rice fields (where it is a serious pest) and pond shores in southwestern California, in the Coast Range in Sonoma, Napa, Marin and San Francisco counties, and in the Central Valley (Munz, 1959, 1968; Hickman, 1993). Echinocloa oryzoides (Ard.) Fritsch [POACEAE] SYNONYMS: Echinocloa oryzicola var. mutica Native to Eurasia, this plant is reported from rice fields in Butte County (Munz, 1968) and rice fields and wet places in the southern Sacramento Valley (Hickman, 1993). Eleocharis pachycarpa Desv. [CYPERACEAE] Native to Chile, this plant is found in Nevada, in coastal salt marsh in Humboldt County, and in vernal pools in Amador and El Dorado counties in the Sierra Nevada (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993).

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Fimbristylis miliacea Linnaeus [CYPERACEAE] This is a widespread alien that is native to the Old World tropics. It is found in low elevation rice fields in the Central Valley, and was collected in the Bay Area in 1866 (Hickman, 1993). Heteranthera limosa (Schwartz) Willd. [PONTEDERIACEAE] Native to central and eastern U. S. and tropical America, this plant is reported as uncommon in rice fields at low elevations in the Sacramento Valley. It is an annual, generally growing emergent in water or on wet ground, and submerged as a seedling (Hickman, 1993). Hydrilla verticillata (Linne) Caspary [HYDROCHARITACEAE] HYDRILLA Native to Eurasia or central Africa, hydrilla is a highly invasive aquatic plant that clogs waterways, interferes with navigation, and displaces native plants. It was first observed in the U. S. in western Florida in 1958 or 1959, presumably introduced as discarded material from aquaria or escaped from cultivation for the aquarium trade (Joyce, 1992), became established in the southern United States and Central America, and has been found in Texas and Iowa. It was first collected in California in October 1976 at Lake Ellis in Marysville, and by 1977 was reported from two small ponds in Santa Barbara and Riverside counties, from Lake Murray near San Diego, and from the All American Canal in the Imperial Valley (Yeo & McHenry, 1977; IESP, 1991). Only female hydrilla plants have been found in North America, which propagate by stem fragments, buds and tubers. Dormant propagules may survive in the water or mud for several years. Hydrilla's use in aquaria may account in part for its rapid spread, and it may also be spread by boat trailers and possibly by waterfowl (Yeo & McHenry, 1977). Hickman (1993) reports hydrilla from ditches, canals, ponds, reservoirs and lakes at low elevations throughout much of cismontane California, including the Sacramento Valley and the Delta. Thomas (pers. comm., 1994), however, reports that hydrilla is not in the Delta waterways, and it was not found in the Delta in surveys conducted by the California Department of Water Resources and Department of Food and Agriculture (IESP, 1991). In 1977, the California Department of Food and Agriculture classified hydrilla as a Class A noxious weed. Hydrilla may have been eradicated from Lake Ellis and Lake Murray, and there are current efforts to control it at Redding on the Sacramento River (Thomas, pers. comm., 1994). In the 1970s, the state of Florida spent $6 to $8 million a year on hydrilla control (Yeo & McHenry, 1977).

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Najas gracillima (A. Braun) Magnus [HYDROCHARITACEAE] THREAD-LEAVED WATER-NYMPH Native to the northeastern U. S., this plant is reported as rare in low elevation rivers in the northern Sacramento Valley, but "expected elsewhere" (Hickman, 1993). Najas graminea Del. [HYDROCHARITACEAE] RICE-FIELD WATER-NYMPH Native to tropical Asia, this plant is reported as very uncommon in low elevation irrigation ditches and rice fields in Butte and Colusa counties in the Sacramento Valley (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993). Ottelia alismoides (Linnaeus) Pers. [HYDROCHARITACEAE] Native to Africa, India and the southwestern Pacific, this plant is described as a potentially noxious weed. It was found in low elevation ditches and rice fields in Butte County in the eastern Sacramento Valley, and is presumed to be eradicated (Hickman, 1993). Peltandra virginica (Linnaeus) Schott & Endl. [ARACEAE] TUCKAHOE, GREEN ARROW ARUM Tuckahoe is native to eastern North America, and is uncommon in low elevation ponds and reservoirs in southwestern San Joaquin Valley (Hickman, 1993). Scirpus mucronatus Linnaeus [CYPERACEAE] This plant is native to Eurasia and introduced to central and eastern U. S. and California, where it is a weed in rice fields and wet places at low elevations in the Sacramento Valley, the Bay Area and the Coast Ranges (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993).

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Scirpus tuberosus Desf. [CYPERACEAE] SYNONYMS: Scirpus maritimus var. tuberosus Native to Europe, this plant is cultivated for waterfowl food and has been introduced to eastern North America and the Pacific coast from California to Oregon. In California it is reported from low elevation ditches, marshes and rice fields in the Central Valley and Bay Area (Munz, 1959; Hickman, 1993).

INVERTEBRATES
MOLLUSCA: GASTROPODA Planorbella duryi (Wetherby, 1879) [PLANORBIDAE] SEMINOLE RAMS-HORN SYNONYMS: Seminolina duryi This snail is native to Florida and has been spread by the aquarium trade, with the albino form sold as the "red ramshorn." It is common in southern California and north near the coast to Humboldt County, reported especially from artificial ponds, drainage and irrigation ditches, and the outflow from warm springs. The first California record is from San Bernardino County in 1931. It is unclear whether it occurs in the study zone (Taylor, 1981). Pseudosuccinea columella (Say, 1817) [LYMNAEIDAE] MIMIC LYMNAEA SYNONYMS: Lymnaea columella This snail, native to the eastern United States, is common in artificial and natural ponds, irrigation ditches, creeks and rivers in central and southern California. The earliest California record is from an irrigation ditch in Calaveras County in 1921. It is unclear whether it occurs within the study zone (Taylor, 1981).

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Radix auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758) [LYMNAEIDAE] SYNONYMS: Lymnaea auricularia Hanna (1966) reported this European snail, which is now widespread in the United States, from irrigation systems and natural bodies of water from Sacramento to Los Angeles counties, including Napa, Santa Clara and Alameda counties. It is unclear whether it occurs within the study zone. It apparently has spread from artificial ponds in metropolitan areas. The first California records are from ornamental ponds in Los Angeles, where Gregg (1923) first noticed them in 1922 and was told they first occurred about 1920, and from the Japanese tea garden in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco and the fountain pool at Byron Hot Springs, Contra Costa County in 1924 (Hanna & Clark, 1925). It has been suggested that it may have been introduced as snails or eggs on ornamental aquatic plants, or through the aquarium trade, where it was sold as the "African or Paper-shelled Snail" (Gregg, 1923; Hanna & Clark, 1925).

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APPENDIX 4. INTRODUCED ORGANISMS IN THE NORTHEASTERN PACIFIC KNOWN ONLY FROM THE SAN FRANCISCO ESTUARY OR ITS WATERSHED

Dates are marked as in Table 1. Species Dates of First Records Comments

PLANTS
Seaweeds Bryopsis sp. Codium fragile tomentosoides Vascular Plants Salsola soda 1951 1977 1968 but none in 1995 1946* {1894} 1927* {1913} 1946* {1894} 1927* {1871} 1991* a few plants found in Bodega Bay in 1994,

PROTOZOANS
Ancistrum cyclidioides Boveria teredinidi Sphenophyra dosiniae Mirofolliculina limnoriae Trochammina hadai

INVERTEBRATES
Porifera Prosuberites sp. Cnidaria Blackfordia virginica Cladonema uchidai Clava multicornis Corymorpha sp. Garveia franciscana Maeotias inexspectata Aurelia "aurita" Annelida Branchiura sowerbyi Potamothrix bavaricus Tubificoides apectinatus Varichaetadrilus angustipenis Ficopomatus enigmaticus Marenzelleria viridis Potamilla sp. Sabaco elongatus 1953* 1970 1979 1895 1955-56 1901 1992 1989?* 1963* [1950*] 1965 1961-62* 1982 1920 1991 1989 1950s* Napa River only

Napa & Petaluma rivers only South Bay only? limited to watershed limited to watershed

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Species Mollusca: Gastropoda Busycotypus canaliculatus Crepidula convexa Littorina saxatilis Boonea bisuturalis Cuthona perca Eubranchus misakiensis Sakuraeolis enosimensis Mollusca: Bivalvia Potamocorbula amurensis Arthropoda: Crustacea Eusarsiella zostericola Acartiella sinensis Limnoithona sinensis Limnoithona tetraspina Oithona davisae Pseudodiaptomus forbesi Sinocalanus doerrii Tortanus sp. Epinebalia sp. Acanthomysis aspera Acanthomysis sp. Deltamysis holmquistae Dynoides dentisinus Eurylana arcuata Paranthura sp. Gammarus daiberi Leucothoe sp. Melita sp. Paradexamine sp. Transorchestia enigmatica Eriocheir sinensis Orconectes virilis Arthropoda: Insecta Anisolabis maritima Neochetina bruchi Neochetina eichhorniae Trigonotylus uhleri Entoprocta Urnatella gracilis Bryozoa Victorella pavida

Dates of First Records 1938 1898 1993* 1977* 1979 1962 1972 1986 1953* 1993 1979 1993 1979 1987 1978 1993 1992 1992 1992 1977 1977 1978 1993* 1983 1977* 1993* 1993* 1962* 1992 1959 [1939-41] 1935 [1921] (1920) 1982 1982-83 1993* 1982-84 [1972] 1967*

Comments

Emeryville Marina only Lake Merritt only

Lake Merritt only limited to watershed? reports elsewhere probably in error

Lake Merritt only?

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APPENDIX 5. INTRODUCED MARINE, ESTUARINE AND AQUATIC ORGANISMS IN FOUR REGIONAL STUDIES
Mills et al., 1993 Great Lakes Jansson, 1994a Baltic Sea & Swedish Coast 0 9 ( 18%) 8 ( 16%) 2 ( 4%) 0 Mills et al., 1995 Hudson River 0 0 0 97 ( 63%) 0 This Studyb San Francisco Estuary 0 0 5 ( 2%) 49 ( 20%) 8 ( 3%)

PLANTS
Bacteria Phytoplankton Seaweeds Vascular Plants 1 17 7 59 ( ( ( ( 1%) 12%) 5%) 42%)

PROTOZOA INVERTEBRATES
Porifera Cnidaria Platyhelminthes Nematoda Annelida Mollusca Arthropoda: Crustacea Arthropoda: Insecta Entoprocta Bryozoa Chordata: Tunicata

2 ( 1%)

0 2 ( 1%) 1 ( 1%) 0 3 14 6 2 0 0 0 ( ( ( ( 2%) 10%) 4%) 1%) -

0 2 ( 4%) 0 1 ( 2%) 2 ( 4%) 6 ( 12%) 11 ( 22%) 0 0 1 ( 2%) 0 -

0 2 ( 1%) 0 0 1 ( 1%) 19 ( 12%) 6 ( 4%) 0 0 0 0 -

5 ( 2%) 17 ( 7%) 0 0 21 30 49 4 ( ( ( ( 9%) 13%) 20%) 2%)

2 ( 1%) 11 ( 5%) 8 ( 3%)

VERTEBRATES
Fish Amphibians Reptiles Birds Mammals SUBTOTAL: Plants SUBTOTAL: Protozoa SUBTOTAL: Invertebrates SUBTOTAL: Vertebrates TOTAL *
a b

25 ( 18%) 0 0 0 0 84 2 28 25 ( 60%) ( 1%) ( 20%) ( 18%)

4 ( 8%) 0 0 2 ( 4%) 2 ( 4%) 19 ( 38%) 0 23 ( 46%) 8 ( 16%) 50 (100%)

29 ( 19%) 0 0 0 0 97 ( 63%) 0 28 ( 18%) 29 ( 19%) 154 (100%)

28 ( 12%) 1 * 1 * 0 1 * 54 8 147 31 ( ( ( ( 23%) 3%) 61%) 13%)

139 (100%)

240 (100%)

Less than 0.5%. Jansson did not report specific criteria for inclusion on the list of introduced species within her study zone, but reported only two vascular plants, both of them submersed aquatic plants. Based on the expanded list, as explained in the "Taxonomic Groups" section of Chapter 5.