Invasive zebra mussel colonisation of invasive crayfish : a case study

Abstract

We investigated the interaction between two invasive invertebrate species in a shallow Central European flooded sandpit: the epibiosis of Ponto-Caspian zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha on the American crayfish Orconectes limosus.

Keywords

• Zebra mussel
• Dreissena polymorpha
• spiny-cheek crayfish
• Orconectes limosus
• body colonisation
• epibiosis