Specimen Information

Physella acuta
Physella acuta
(Acute bladder snail)
Mollusks-Gastropods
Native Transplant

Specimen ID1524538
GroupMollusks-Gastropods
GenusPhysella
Speciesacuta
Common NameAcute bladder snail
StateCO
CountyChaffee
Locality[hot springs on the Chalk Creek near]Farmers Ditch, trib of Boulder Creek (Mt. Princeton Hot Springs)
Mapping AccuracyApproximate
HUC8 NameArkansas Headwaters
HUC8 Number11020001
Map
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Collection Year2004
Year AccuracyPublication Year
Potential Pathwayreleased aquarium | hitch hiker on aquatic plants
Statusestablished
Reference 1
Ref. Number:32447
Author:Wethington, A.R., and R. Guralnick
Date:2004
Title:Are populations of physids from different hot springs discinctive lineages?
Journal:American Malacological Bulletin
Volume:19
Issue:1/2
Pages:135-144
Reference 2
Ref. Number:31765
Author:Ebbs, E.T., E.S. Loker, and S.V. Brant
Date:2018
Title:Phylogeography and genetics of the globally invasive snail Physa acuta Draparnaud 1805, and its potential to serve as an intermediate host to larval digenetic trematodes
Journal:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Volume:18
Issue:103
Pages:1-17
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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