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Watersipora subtorquata - a bay invader

Scoop a handful of critters out of the San Francisco Bay and you’ll find tourists from far away shores. Invasive kinds of mussels, fish and more are choking out native species, challenging experts around the state to change the human behavior that brings them here.



QUEST TV segment air date: 5/29/07

View the companion KQED TV piece on the QUEST website and discuss it in the QUEST Science Blog.

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items are from between 27 May 2004 & 04 Jun 2007.

Watersipora subtorquata - a bay invader by kqedquest
New Zealand Sea Slug (Philine auriformis) by kqedquest
Japanese Bubble Snail egg cases by kqedquest
Crust-of-bread Sponge and friends by kqedquest
Beneath the fishing pier at Fruitvale Bridge, Oakland by kqedquest
Atlantic Oyster Drill (Urosalpinx cinerea) by kqedquest
Japanese wireweed (Sargassum muticum) by kqedquest
Musculista senhousia mat by kqedquest
Green Bagmussel by kqedquest
Orange Striped Green Anenome (Diadumene lineata) by kqedquest
Red Beard Sponge by kqedquest
European Green Crab by kqedquest
Chain sea squirt (Botrylloides diegensis) by kqedquest
Channeled Welk (Busycotypus canaliculatus) by kqedquest
Treating Spartina alterniflora - an exotic cordgrass species by kqedquest
Producer Amy Miller and scientist Andrew Cohen by kqedquest
Cameraman Tomas Tucker and Sound Recordist Bill Stefanacci by kqedquest
Exotic Cell Phone (Cellular fonatis) by kqedquest
Native Grocery Cart (Comida transportatis) by kqedquest
Pile worms (Nereis virens) packed in seaweed by kqedquest
Treated invasive Spartina (Atlantic cordgrass). by kqedquest
North Atlantic Sea Squirt (Molgula manhattensis) by kqedquest
Meeting of the invasives at High St. Bridge, Oakland by kqedquest
Native SF Bay and exotic isopods by kqedquest
Atlantic cordgrass invasion by kqedquest
Overbite Clam, or Asian Clam (Corbula amurensis) by kqedquest

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