TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent Evaluation of Corbicula Form D Distribution in the Midwest, U.S.A.
AU - Douglass, Sarah
AU - Reasor, Emily
AU - Tiemann, Jeremy
AU - Stodola, Alison
AU - McMurray, Stephen
AU - Poulton, Barry
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments.—This work was supported in part through an internship to Emily Reasor provided by the National Great Rivers Research & Education Center through grant #NGRRE-IP2017-7. We sincerely thank Allison Sieja and Samantha Barratt for assisting in field work, and Rachel Vinsel for Illinois Natural History Survey Mollusk Collection database support. We also thank three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions that greatly improved the manuscript. Any use of trade, firm, or product names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.
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PY - 2020/1/21
Y1 - 2020/1/21
N2 - The genus Corbicula contains one of the most common and successful aquatic invasive species to North America. Prior to 2015 two predominant species of Corbicula were known from the United States-C. fluminea and C. largillierti, referred to as Forms A and B, respectively. Form A has spread throughout most of the U.S., while Form B is mainly contained in the Midwest and southern U.S. In 2015 a novel Corbicula, known as Form D, was discovered in the Illinois River, at Marseilles, Illinois, and was later reported from the Ohio River. Our primary objective for this study was to report additional records of Form D, with a focus on the upper Illinois River watershed. Surveys during summer 2017 verified the presence of Form D in the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, as well as multiple new locations in the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, where all three Corbicula forms co-exist.
AB - The genus Corbicula contains one of the most common and successful aquatic invasive species to North America. Prior to 2015 two predominant species of Corbicula were known from the United States-C. fluminea and C. largillierti, referred to as Forms A and B, respectively. Form A has spread throughout most of the U.S., while Form B is mainly contained in the Midwest and southern U.S. In 2015 a novel Corbicula, known as Form D, was discovered in the Illinois River, at Marseilles, Illinois, and was later reported from the Ohio River. Our primary objective for this study was to report additional records of Form D, with a focus on the upper Illinois River watershed. Surveys during summer 2017 verified the presence of Form D in the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, as well as multiple new locations in the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers, where all three Corbicula forms co-exist.
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U2 - 10.1637/19-034
DO - 10.1637/19-034
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85078495286
SN - 0003-0031
VL - 183
SP - 136
EP - 142
JO - American Midland Naturalist
JF - American Midland Naturalist
IS - 1
ER -