First record of the brackish water dreissenid bivalve Mytilopsis leucophaeata in the northern Baltic Sea

Aquatic Invasions

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 38-41

  Laine, Ari O ^a   Mattila, Jukka ^b   Lehikoinen, Annukka ^b  

^a FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b STUK RADIATION AND NUCLEAR SAFETY AUTHORITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Cooling waters; Dreissenidae; Invasions; Mytilopsis leucophaeata

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748501807     PISSN: 17986540     EISSN: 18185487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3391/ai.2006.1.1.9     Document Type: Article

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