Links to Species ID Resources

Marine Introduced Species Monitoring Resource Center

Guide to Marine Invaders in the Gulf of Maine is a set of 20 ID cards. They are full color, laminated, 8.5 x 5 inch field cards. Great as a learning tool in the classroom or on the shore.
To obtain a set, go to www.salemsound.org/chimp.htm

MIT Sea Grant Hitchhikers Guide to Exotic Species is a field guide for beachcombers, students and other interested citizens. Printed on waterproof paper, it contains color photographs and information on introduced species and a few native species for comparison. massbay.mit.edu/exoticspecies/hitchhikers/index.html

Identifying the crabs of New England is outlined with photos at Dave Delaney's Invasive Tracers web site.
www.invasivetracers.com

Guide to Exotic Species by Andrew Cohen (2005) of San Francisco Bay provides detailed species idenification (includes species found in New England). Check out as well as the story of how the San Francisco Estuary is changing due to exotic species and the San Francisco Estuary Institute Bioinvasion Programl.
www.exoticsguide.org

Gateway to federal and state invasive species activities and programs www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov

USGS page on NAS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species
nas.er.usgs.gov

More information on tunicates at Charles and Gretchen Lambert’s Ascidian home page depts.washington.edu/ascidian

Didemnum species Woods Hole Science Center woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/stellwagen/didemnum/index.htm

Learn more about the Rapa Whelk from the Molluscan Ecology Program at Virginia Institute of Marine Science www.vims.edu/mollusc/research/merapven.htm