Invasion
Invasion Description
1st Record: NY/Erie Canal (1880, Mills et al. 1993; Mills et al. 1997)
Geographic Extent
NY/Erie Canal (1880, Mills et al. 1993; Mills et al. 1997); Ashatabula/OH/Lake Erie (1888, Dundee 1974); Erie/PA/Lake Erie and city water system (Sterki 1911. cited by Mills et al. 1993); Beaver Island/NY/Niagara River (2010, Karatayev et al. 2013); Sandusky/OH/Lake Erie (1911, Dundee 1974); Toledo/OH/Lake Erie (1911, Dundee 1974); Monroe/MI/Lake Erie (1935, (# 188676, University of Michigan Zoology Museum 2013)
Vectors
| Level | Vector |
|---|---|
| Alternate | Dry Ballast |
| Alternate | Packing Material |
Regional Impacts
| Ecological Impact | Parasite/Predator Vector | |
| Bithynia tentaculata, here, was found to carry the trematodes Cyathocotyle bushiensis (exotic) Leyogonimus polyoon (exotic), and Sphaeridiotrema sp., (S. pseudoglobulus, exotic, or S. globulus, cryptogenic) which can cause mass mortalities in waterfowl (Karatayev et al. 2012). | ||
| Economic Impact | Health | |
| '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). | ||