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Exceeding its own limits: range expansion in Argentina of the globally invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata

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Pomacea canaliculata is a freshwater snail native to southern South America. The aims of this work are to update its distribution in Argentina and to analyze through niche models whether the environmental conditions from its original distribution can anticipate its recently expanded range. Almost all records of P. canaliculata before 1958 (original records) belong to del Plata or connected basins. A quarter of the new present records are located in basins not connected to del Plata, indicating a recent expansion of the distribution range of P. canaliculata in Argentina. Recently colonized areas are mostly environmentally suitable according to the projection of the original distribution model, thus natural barriers were probably the main limits to its distribution in the past. According to the model, many regions outside its original range, including several not yet colonized, are suitable for the establishment of P. canaliculata. Consequently, it is likely that this species will continue establishing new populations in Argentina, especially if fishermen and aquarists continue to move snails to new locations. Our study revealed that an extensive but overlooked invasion is in process in its native range, where the impacts on diversity and ecosystems functioning may differ from those already described elsewhere.

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Acknowledgments

This work was funded with grants from UNS (‘Universidad Nacional del Sur’, PGI 24/B232) and CONICET (‘Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas’, PIP 11220170100236CO). The authors are researchers in CONICET. We are thankful to Alejandro Tablado for providing us the information of the malacological catalogs from Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences (MACN Bernardino Rivadavia, Buenos Aires). We also would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments, which helped us to improve the manuscript.

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Seuffert, M.E., Martín, P.R. Exceeding its own limits: range expansion in Argentina of the globally invasive apple snail Pomacea canaliculata. Hydrobiologia 848, 385–401 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-020-04447-z

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