Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit

 

Date of this Version

2013

Citation

Journal of Freshwater Ecology, 2013 Vol. 28, No. 3, 439–444; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02705060.2013.769127

Abstract

The Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) is a non-indigenous, invasive species in freshwater ecosystems of North America. We provide fecundity estimates for a population of these snails in a Nebraska reservoir. We dissected 70 snails, of which 29 were females. Nearly all female snails contained developing young, with an average of 25 young per female. Annual fecundity was estimated at between 27.2 and 33.3 young per female per year. Based on an estimated adult population and the calculated fecundity, the annual production for this reservoir was between 2.2 and 3.7 million young.

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