Invasive american crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus (Decapoda : Astacidae) in the Morava River (Slovakia)

Abstract

The signal crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus, was recorded in the Slovak-Austrian stretch of the Morava (March) River in the Zahorie region in 2006. This is the first confirmed record of an invasive crayfish species of American origin in Slovakia.

Keywords

• Pacifastacus leniusculus
• signal crayfish
• invasive species
• crayfish plague
• Slovakia
• first record
• Aphanomyces astaci
• orconectes-limosus
• plague
• crustacea
• diseases
• spread