The effect of chemical treatments on red-rim melania Melanoides tuberculata, an exotic aquatic snail that serves as a vector of trematodes to fish and other species in the USA

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1287-1293

  Mitchell, Andrew J ^a   Hobbs, Melissa S ^a,c   Brandt, Thomas M ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center   (United States)

^c Williams Baptist College   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENDANGERED SPECIES; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FLATWORM; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STOCKING DENSITY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CENTROCESTUS FORMOSANUS; GASTROPODA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATA; MELANOIDES TUBERCULATUS; TREMATODA;

EID: 37749029640     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M06-252.1     Document Type: Article

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