Exotic molluscs in State of Paraíba, Northeast Brazil: a bibliographic survey

Autor: Luciano de Brito Junior, Marilia Carolina Pereira da Paz, Ronilson José da Paz
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences. 1:11
ISSN: 2358-2731
DOI: 10.21472/bjbs.010102
Popis: The control of alien species is the main challenge for the maintenance the integrity of biodiversity. We present a list of exotic mollusc species recorded in the literature from State of Paraiba (PB), Northeast Brazil, as of April 2014. The total number of species of exotic mollusc recorded is seven, two Bivalvia and five Gastropoda. The Class Bivalvia's species was represented by Isognomon bicolor (Adams, 1845) and Corbicula fluminea (Muller, 1774), and Class Gastropoda's species by Achatina fulica (Bowdich, 1822), Melanoides tuberculata (Muller, 1774), Physella acuta (Draparnaud, 1805), Aplexa marmorata (Guilding, 1828) and Lymnaea columella (Say, 1817).
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