The Asian red seaweed Grateloupia turuturu (Rhodophyta) invades the Gulf of Maine

• Published in: Biological Invasions
• Main Authors: Mathieson, Arthur C., Dawes, Clinton J., Pederson, Judith, Gladych, Rebecca A., Carlton, James T.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 2008
• Subjects: Scientific Contribution Number 2339; Marine Biology; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/nhaes/18; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-007-9176-z; https://scholars.unh.edu/context/nhaes/article/1017/viewcontent/10.1007_2Fs10530_007_9176_z.pdf

We report the invasion of the Gulf of Maine, in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, by the largest red seaweed in the world, the Asian Grateloupia turuturu. First detected in 1994 in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, south of Cape Cod, this alga had expanded its range in the following years only over to Lon...