{"title":"The first record of the invasive Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana (Lea, 1834) (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the African continent","authors":"Y. Mabrouki, A. F. Taybi","doi":"10.20302/nc.2022.31.28","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana s.l., is a successful global invader. We report its first finding in Morocco, which represents the first record of the species in the African continent. Measures are needed to increase monitoring and management of its invasion process.","PeriodicalId":36013,"journal":{"name":"Natura Croatica","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Natura Croatica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20302/nc.2022.31.28","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Chinese pond mussel Sinanodonta woodiana s.l., is a successful global invader. We report its first finding in Morocco, which represents the first record of the species in the African continent. Measures are needed to increase monitoring and management of its invasion process.
期刊介绍:
Natura Croatica is a scientific journal of the Croatian Natural History Museum in Zagreb. It publishes papers that bring original insight into zoology, botany, geology, palaeontology, mineralogy and petrography, with emphasis on systematics, morphology, ecology. The journal welcomes papers related to research carried out in the Croatian Natural History Museum, as well as in other Natural History museums, departments and collections.