| Species: Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) |
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| Synonyms: Physa acuta (Draparnaud, 1805) |
| Common name: bladder snail |
| Taxonomy: |
| Family: Physidae |
| Order: Basommatophora |
| Class: Gastropoda |
| Phylum: Mollusca |
| Native range: North America |
| Date of introduction/first record: The first record was published by Naumova et al. (1983), with no exact date of finding indicated. |
| Vector: Because Physella acuta is present in Poland (Alien Species in Poland Database) and absent in Lithuania (Lithuanian National Invasive Species Database), it is likely that this snail has naturally colonized Belarus from Poland. |
Records in Belarus: Several rivers and marches in the Pripyat River drainage basin (Naumova et al. 1983), Neman River (Semenchenko et al. 2008).
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| Potential ecological impacts: No data. |
References:
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Naumova LA, Stavinskaya AM and Igumnova LV (1983) Species composition peculiarities and biotopic distribution of freshwater molluscs of Pripyat Polesye. In: Likharev IM (ed) Proceedings of the 7th All Union workshop on molluscan studies ‘Molluscs, taxonomy, ecology and peculiarities of distribution'. Nauka Press, Leningrad, pp 105-107
- Semenchenko VP, Laenko T, Razlutskij V (2008) A new record of the North American gastropod Physella acuta (Draparnaud 1805) from the Neman River basin, Belarus. Aquatic Invasions 3(3): 359-360
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