Aquarium hitchhikers: attached commensals imported with freshwater shrimps via the pet trade
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41210/16:71844 RIV/60076658:12520/16:43890368
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1018-9" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1018-9</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-1018-9" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10530-015-1018-9</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Aquarium hitchhikers: attached commensals imported with freshwater shrimps via the pet trade
Original language description
The keeping of home aquaria is one of the most popular hobbies globally. In contrast to the ornamental fish trade, decapod crustaceans such as shrimps, crayfish and crabs are relatively new to the pet trade. Nevertheless, the popularity of ornamental shrimp in freshwater aquaria has rapidly increased in recent years. Indonesia is one of the leading producers and exporters of ornamental aquatic animals globally and the Czech Republic is a gateway for these animals into the European Union territory. The pathway for introductions of organisms unintentionally moved in association with ornamental shrimps via the international trade has to date not been evaluated. We examined a small number of shrimps imported from Indonesia into the Czech Republic in May 2015 and found large numbers of the protozoan Vorticella sp., one species of scutariellid temnocephalidan (Caridinicola sp.), and one species of bdelloid rotifer, associated with two species of atyid shrimps, indicating an invasion risk from fauna carried unintentionally by this vector. Although our observations were limited in scale, we estimate the total number of commensal fauna imported into the Czech Republic with ornamental shrimps via the pet trade to be in the order of hundreds of thousands per month. As attached organisms can directly or indirectly cause diseases in certain species of decapod crustaceans, we recommend five steps to reduce risks of introduction of “hitchhikers to aquaria and wildlife.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Biological Invasions
ISSN
1387-3547
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
18
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
457-461
UT code for WoS article
000370066200012
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84957432860