Current status of the non-indigenous molluscs in Chile, with the first record of Otala punctata (Müller, 1774) (Gastropoda: Helicidae) in the country and new records for Cornu aspersum (Müller, 1774) and Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774)
Author
Araya, Juan Francisco
Laboratorio de Invertebrados Acuáticos, Departamento de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile; & Laboratorio de Química Inorgánica, Departamento de Química, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Ñuñoa, Chile
text
Journal of Natural History
2015
2015-02-28
49
29
1731
1761
journal article
21137
10.1080/00222933.2015.1006703
ed406cdc-dbc5-4841-8221-917c3d346274
1464-5262
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Gastrocopta pediculus
(
Shuttleworth, 1852
)
Description
Pilsbry
1916
–
1918
.
Distribution
Widely distributed among tropical Pacific islands, probably native to
Indonesia
and the tropical western Pacific (
Brook et al. 2010
). In
Chile
, this species has been reported only from Easter Island (
39°48
ʹ
S
,
73°14
ʹ
W
),
Región de Valparaiso
(
Boyko and Cordeiro 2001
).
Possible mechanism of introduction/Status
Human transportation/unestablished (
Boyko and Cordeiro 2001
).
Remarks
Detritivore (
Brodie and Barker 2011
). UA, I.