An old menace is back: crayfish plague in Czechia

Abstract

Description of recent mass mortalities of indigenour craifh in Czech republic, caused by crayfish plague; alert of its probably widespread presence in Central Europe

Keywords

• biological invasion
• crayfish plague
• Aphanomyces astaci
• noble crayfish
• Astacus astacus
• spiny-cheek crayfish
• Orconectes limosus
• pathogen carrier
• Central Europe