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Potamopyrgus antipodarum

Creators

  • 1. Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile; & Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile

Description

Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) Description

Collado (2014).

Distribution

Native to New Zealand and its adjacent islands and invasive in North America and Europe (Winterbourn 1970; Kerans et al. 2005). In Chile this species has been recorded in the city of Santiago in the Parque O’ Higgins (33°28 ′ S, 70°39 ′ W), and Estero La Dehesa (33°22 ′ S, 70°15 ʹ W), and in the city of Salamanca, central Chile, in the Chalinga River (31°46 ′ S, 70°59 ′ W) and in the Estero Consuelo (31°46 ′ S, 70°37 ʹ W) (Collado 2014).

Possible mechanism of introduction/Status

Unknown/established (Collado 2014).

Remarks

Generalist species, feeding on aquatic plants, green algae and detritus (Haynes and Taylor 1984). Invasive, ovoviviparous species. EA, I.

Notes

Published as part of Araya, Juan Francisco, 2015, Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774), pp. 1731-1761 in Journal of Natural History 49 (29) on page 1738, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703, http://zenodo.org/record/3997965

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/933C3E2EFFE2FF8DFE5F01C2FD37529E

Is part of
Journal article: 10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/3997965 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/6F054656FFE5FF8AFFD6012AFFDB5147 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/933C3E2EFFE2FF8DFE5F01C2FD37529E (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/167307576 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/21137/taxon/933C3E2EFFE2FF8DFE5F01C2FD37529E.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Hydrobiidae
Genus
Potamopyrgus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Littorinimorpha
Phylum
Mollusca
Scientific name authorship
Gray
Species
antipodarum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) sec. Araya, 2015

References

  • Gray JE. 1843. Catalogue of the species of Mollusca and their shells, which have hitherto been recorded as found at New Zealand, with the description of some lately discovered species. In: Dieffenbach E, editor. Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country. Vol. 2. London: John Murray; pp. 228 - 265; iv + 392 p.
  • Collado GA. 2014. Out of New Zealand: molecular identification of the highly invasive freshwater mollusk Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) in South America. Zool Stud. 53: 70.
  • Winterbourn MJ. 1970. The New Zealand species of Potamopyrgus (Gastropoda: Hydrobiidae). Malacologia. 10: 283 - 321.
  • Kerans BL, Dybdahl MF, Gangloff MM, Jannot JE. 2005. Potamopyrgus antipodarum: distribution, density, and effects on native macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. J N Am Benthol Soc. 24: 123 - 138.
  • Haynes A, Taylor BJR. 1984. Food finding and food preference in Potamopyrgus jenkinsi (E. A. Smith) (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia). Arch Hydrobiol. 100: 479 - 491.