Invasion
Invasion Description
1st record: Dublin/Ireland/River Liffey estuary (Irish Sea) (1842, Allman 1844)
Geographic Extent
River Foyle Marina, Londonderry/Northern Ireland/River Foyle (2012, Nunn and Minchin 2013); Dublin/Ireland/River Liffey estuary (Irish Sea) (1842, Allman 1844); Commercial and West Indian Docks/London/Thames River (Allman 1872); Netherlands/Rhine Delta (Vervoort 1964; Roos 1979); Nieuwpoort/Belgium/Ijzer River (1905, Kerckhof et al. 2007); Cuxhaven/Germany/Wadden Sea (Buschbaum et al. 2012); Germany/Elbe Estuary (1858, limnetic-polyhaline, Nehring 2006); Denmark/Ringkøbing Fjord (1895, Jensen and Knudsen 2005)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Probable | Hull Fouling |
Regional Impacts
| Economic Impact | Industry | |
| Fouling by C. caspia was reported in power plants from the Moselle River, Luxembourg (Massard et al. 1990) and the Netherlands (Jenner and Jannsen-Mommen 1993). | ||
| Ecological Impact | Food/Prey | |
| Extensive feeding by the introduced amphipod Gammarus tigrinus on C.caspia was reported in Dutch freshwaters by Roos (1979). | ||