Live periwinkle snails on display in a live food market in Texas
Detailed Description
Many hundreds of live periwinkle snails on display in a live food market in Texas. Those in photograph were tentatively identified as Littorina littorea, a species native to Europe and now widespread in USA and Canada.
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Public Domain.
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Survey and Assessment of Live Food Markets as an Invasion Pathway
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Survey and Assessment of Live Food Markets as an Invasion Pathway
Live food markets may be a source of the increasing number of non-native wild invertebrate and fish species, like Asian swamp eels and snakeheads. USGS is surveying such markets around the United States to identify and document species that might be of concern if released live into the wild to assess if the live food market is a possible invasion pathway.