Expansion of the marbled crayfish in Slovakia: beginning of an invasion in the Danube catchment?

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/16:10326917

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1313" target="_blank" >10.4081/jlimnol.2016.1313</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Expansion of the marbled crayfish in Slovakia: beginning of an invasion in the Danube catchment?

Original language description

The marbled crayfish, Procambarus fallax f. virginalis, is a taxon widely available in the aquarium pet trade, which has been introduced to open waters in several European countries and in Madagascar. Recent studies confirmed this parthenogenetically reproducing crayfish as a high-risk invasive species, and vector of the crayfish plague pathogen, Aphanomyces astaci. It has been first discovered in Slovakia in 2010, but the status of the local population was not studied since then. Due to enlarged sampling area around the first report and one locality, where we presupposed the crayfish occurrence, we identified three new marbled crayfish populations in Slovakia. Two populations are located critically close to the Vah River, a major tributary of the Danube River; one of them being directly connected to the Vah River via a side channel during occasional floods. The third established marbled crayfish population was found at the mouth of a thermal stream flowing into the Nitra River, a tributary of the Vah River. In this stream, crayfish coexist with exotic fish and gastropod species of aquarium origin. We presume that the reported localities may serve as a source for further expansion of the marbled crayfish in the mid-part of the Danube catchment. Floods, active dispersal (including overland), passive dispersal by zoochory or anthropogenic translocations are among the major drivers facilitating the marbled crayfish colonization. We have not detected the crayfish plague pathogen in any of the studied populations. However, if spreading further, the marbled crayfish will encounter established populations of crayfish plague carriers in the Danube River, in which case they may acquire the pathogen by horizontal transmission and contribute to spread of this disease to indigenous European crayfish species.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

GL - Fishery

OECD FORD branch

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Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Limnology

ISSN

1129-5767

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

75

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

IT - ITALY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

305-312

UT code for WoS article

000383780200012

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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