Aquatic Invaders of Belarus Database

Species: Chelicorophium robustum (Sars,1895)
Synonyms: -
Common name: -
Taxonomy:
Family: Corophiidae
Order: Amphipoda
Class: Malacostraca
Phylum: Arthropoda
Native range: Ponto-Caspian.
Date of introduction/first record: First was sighted in summer 2008 (Semenchenko et al. 2008).
Vector: Likely, natural spread from the territory of Ukraine (Semenchenko et al. 2009).
Records in Belarus: Dnieper River, near Nizhnie Zhary (Semenchenko et al. 2009).
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Potential ecological impacts: Unknown.
References: Semenchenko VP, Rizevsky VK, Mastitsky SE, Vezhnovets VV, Pluta MV, Razlutsky VI and Laenko T (2009) Checklist of aquatic alien species established in large river basins of Belarus. Aquatic Invasions 4(2): 337-347. DOI: 10.3391/ai.2009.4.2.5