Species Regional Summary
Bithynia tentaculata
_CDA_L103 (Chautauqua-Connaut) ( L103 )

Invasion History Vectors Impacts References

Invasion

Invasion Description

1st Record: Ashatabula/OH/Lake Erie (1888, Dundee 1974)

Geographic Extent

Ashatabula/OH/Lake Erie (1888, Dundee 1974; Krieger et al. 1985); Erie/PA/Lake Erie and city water system (Sterki 1911. cited by Mills et al. 1993);

Vectors

Level Vector
Alternate Hull Fouling
Alternate Packing Material
Alternate Dry Ballast

Regional Impacts

Economic ImpactHealth
'In Erie, Pennsylvania, the water supplies became so infested that 'wagon loads' of snails were removed from municipal water pumping stations' (Sterki 1911, cited by Mills et al. 1993).
 

References

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