Marine hitchhikers: a preliminary study on invertebrates unintentionally transported via the international pet trade

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/57682/" target="_blank" >https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/57682/</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.61.57682" target="_blank" >10.3897/neobiota.61.57682</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Marine hitchhikers: a preliminary study on invertebrates unintentionally transported via the international pet trade

Original language description

The pet trade in aquatic organisms is a significant source of non-indigenous species introductions. In comparison with ornamental animals, unintentionally transported invertebrate assemblages are easily overlooked by traders and keepers. Moreover, hitchhiking species detection and identification is difficult even for experts. The densities of hitchhikers in aquaria may be relatively higher than those in the wild. These phenomena are known in freshwater aquaria but poorly studied in marine ones. We found 17 species of non-ornamental marine invertebrates in one of the leading importers of aquarium species in the Czech Republic in November 2017. The set comprised six gastropods, two bivalves, three cnidarians, two echinoderms, two crustaceans, and two polychaete worms. In one case, a symbiont was also detected, associated with the host hitchhiker. No live rocks are traded by the surveyed wholesaler. Thus, the found animals were not imported together with this item as larvae or eggs. Contrary to the tran

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

NeoBiota

ISSN

1619-0033

e-ISSN

1314-2488

Volume of the periodical

N

Issue of the periodical within the volume

61

Country of publishing house

BG - BULGARIA

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

33-46

UT code for WoS article

000577174300002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85096374465