Check List 11(4): e19319, doi: 10.15560/11.4.1720
Bivalvia, Cyrenidae, Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774): new record, density, and population structure in the Teles Pires River, northern Mato Grosso, Brazil
Michele Poleze‡, Claudia Tasso Callil‡‡ Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, Brazil
Corresponding author: Michele Poleze ( polezemichele@gmail.com ) © 2017 Michele Poleze, Claudia Callil. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Poleze M, Callil C (2015) Bivalvia, Cyrenidae, Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774): new record, density, and population structure in the Teles Pires River, northern Mato Grosso, Brazil. Check List 11(4): 1720. https://doi.org/10.15560/11.4.1720 |  |
Abstract
Corbicula fluminea is a very prolific invasive species around the world. In order to document the dispersal of this species in the Midwest Region of Brazil, we sampled 10 sites in the Teles Pires River in September 2006 and September 2012. We standardized the sampling effort by the number of drags, distance and size of the sieve. The average density of C. fluminea in 2006 was 6.36 individuals/m2 and 26.42 individuals/m2 in 2012. Corbicula fluminea is adapted to regional environmental characteristics such as climate, temperature and rainfall, and could become a problem in new hydroelectric dams that are setting up on site.
Keywords
bioinvasion; Mollusca; Corbiculidae; environmental problems; invasive species; freshwater invasions