Aliens just a click away: the online aquarium trade in Italy

Mazza, Giuseppe; Aquiloni, Laura; Inghilesi, Alberto Francesco; Giuliani, C.; Lazzaro, Lorenzo; Ferretti, Giulio; Lastrucci, Lorenzo; Foggi, Bruno; Tricarico, Elena

doi:10.3391/mbi.2015.6.3.04

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“…Although pet trade has been considered one of the most important sources of non-native species (Padilla and Williams, 2004;Duggan, 2010), risk assessment of decapod crustaceans introduced via this pathway had been marginalized for a long time. The situation began to change in recent years (see Soes and Koese, 2010;Chucholl, 2013;Faulkes, 2014;Papavlasopoulou et al, 2014;Patoka et al, 2014a;Mazza et al, 2015;Kotovska et al, 2016). Since mitigation and eradication are difficult and mostly impossible when non-native species become established (Aquiloni et al, 2009), the importance of prevention is obvious (Souty-Grosset et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk assessment of pet-traded decapod crustaceans in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the leading country in Central Asia

Uderbayev¹,

Patoka

Beisembayev³

et al. 2017

Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst.

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-The pet trade with decapod crustaceans has been considered one of the main pathway of introduction of these animals worldwide. As the leading markets in this regards are the Czech Republic, Germany and the USA. Central Asia is not perceived as an important market with ornamental decapod crustaceans. Despite this assumption, we found at least 16 species of freshwater shrimp, crayfish and crab species pet-traded in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the largest country in this region. Considering computed risk assessment, the origin of particular species, their availability on the market, the probability of establishment and further aspects, we identified two crayfish Procambarus clarkii and Procambarus fallax f. virginalis being the seriously hazardous taxa with high potential to threaten native crayfish species as well as inhabited ecosystems. To prevent their introductions and to minimize the risks of mentioned species, similarly as in the case of European Union, we recommend the total ban of import, trade and keeping of these high-risk taxa within Central Asia.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risk assessment of pet-traded decapod crustaceans in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the leading country in Central Asia

Uderbayev¹,

Patoka

Beisembayev³

et al. 2017

Knowl. Manag. Aquat. Ecosyst.

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“…An appropriate tool to avoid invasions already at the earliest stage is certainly the application of trade restrictions, as proposed e.g. for the pet trade (Hidalgo-Vila et al 2008, Moutou andPastoret 2010), but as highlighted in Mazza et al (2015), online trade is poorly regulated and some species, such as the Indo-Pacific lionfish Pterois volitans, are sold despite being potentially harmful to humans. A crucial role for guiding European policy on invasive alien species will be exerted by the new European Regulation 1143/2014 (EU 2014), which entered into force in 2015; this legislation, however, focuses on biodiversity impacts and human health will only be considered as aggravating factor.…”

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confidence: 99%

Alien species and public health impacts in Europe: a literature review

Schindler¹,

Staska²,

Adam³

et al. 2015

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Impacts of alien species on human health have recently become a major issue in medical research and invasion ecology, but comprehensive assessments of this subject are largely lacking. Here, we provide a literature review of alien species with public health impacts in Europe based on a systematic search in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. We detected 77 relevant articles, of which 21 were reviews and 56 were original research articles. The taxonomic focus was on vascular plants (n=31 articles) and dipterans (n=25 articles). The original research articles mainly covered the spread of the study species, while early invasion stages (introduction, establishment) as well as impact and management were less investigated. Alien species of health concern in Europe are mostly introduced as contaminants, and mostly originate from climatically similar regions of the Northern Hemisphere. In those cases (36% of all articles) when information on the trend in range and abundance was provided, this trend was mostly increasing. We detected little information on the severity of the impacts (two articles) and the interaction with climate change (three articles). In 15 original articles (28%) specific management measures were suggested, in only one article the socioeconomic costs were assessed. We conclude that European research on human health impacts of alien species is biased towards few species, and that several important aspects such as early invasion stages, severity of impact and its temporal trends, and the scale of the socioeconomic costs caused are poorly understood. Interdisciplinary projects bridging gaps between ecologists medical researchers, socioeconomists and public health authorities are required to link alien species to severity and trends of impacts, which is a crucial requisite for risk assessment and decision making.

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“…Gymnocoronis spilanthoides is a novelty to the flora of Italy and S Europe, but the presence of this aquarium plant in the study area was not to-266 Ardenghi & al. : Gymnocoronis spilanthoides in S Europe tally unexpected: the aquarium and aquatic ornamental species trade is emerging as a major pathway for the introduction of new alien taxa (Padilla & Williams 2004;Hussner 2012), enhanced in recent times by online commerce, which is poorly regulated and accessible to a large number of users (Padilla & Williams 2004;Derraik & Philipps 2010;Mazza & al. 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…2006;Celesti-Grapow & al. 2009;Banfi & Galasso 2010;Mazza & al. 2015), were originally introduced for ornamental purposes and, like G. spilanthoides, found rice fields and related irrigation infrastructures to be a suitable artificial freshwater ecosystem to establish and spread.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%