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Chapt. 8. Summary <strong>of</strong> NIS, page 8- 6<br />

TABLE 8.2 Highly Suspicious Cryptogenic Species<br />

* Found by this project<br />

Species Common Name Probable AK Regions Date 1st Invasion Population Ecological References<br />

Region <strong>of</strong> Origin Record Status Status Impacts<br />

Echinodermata - Asteroidea<br />

* Asterias amurensis<br />

Asian Sea Star<br />

NW Pacific; Bering<br />

Sea<br />

Homer Spit 1999 Suspicious<br />

Range<br />

extension<br />

Established<br />

Predator on Baranova 1976; Ward and<br />

molluscs & Andrew 1995; Foster et al.<br />

other inverts 1999 (Chapt 9, this report)<br />

Chordata - Ascidiacea<br />

* Distaplia sp. nov.<br />

a tunicate unknown Homer, Prince William<br />

Sound (Cordova)<br />

1998 Suspicious<br />

New<br />

Established Fouling G.Lambert 1999 pers. comm.

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