WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)

Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894)
AphiaID: 148586

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Amphipoda (Order) > Senticaudata (Suborder) > Gammarida (Infraorder) > Gammaridira (Parvorder) > Gammaroidea (Superfamily) > Gammaridae (Family) > Dikerogammarus (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Dikerogammarus Stebbing, 1899

Source

basis of record: Faasse, M.; Van Moorsel, G. (2000). Nieuwe en minder bekende vlokreeftjes van sublitorale harde bodems in het Deltagebied (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea) [New and lesser-known amphipods of hard substrates in the Delta area of the Netherlands (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Gammaridea)]. Ned. Faunist. Meded. 11: 19-44 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	reuzenvlokreeft	[details]
English	killer shrimp	[details]
Ukrainian	Бокоплав опушений	[details]

Environment

brackish, fresh

Distribution

Bergse Diepsluis [details]
Elbe [details]
Haringvliet [details]
Hellevoetsluis [details]
Millingen [details]
Ooltgensplaat [details]
Rijn [details]
Speelmansplaten [details]
Stellendam [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Volkerak [details]
Zuiderdiep [details]

Feedingtypes

omnivore [details]
predator [details]
scavenger [details]

Links

Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 11 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI

Notes

Alien species: The killer shrimp Dikerogrammarus villosus original distribution was in the Ponto-Caspian region. After the opening of the canal between Danube and the Rhine in 1992 the species found its way to Western Europe. This killer shrimp distributed itself both actively and passively - via ships - through the European water-network and in 1997 the shrimp was found in the Belgian Albert canal. Since then, the species has advanced to brackish and freshwater in both East and West Flanders. Quickly the species became notorious as an aggressive omnivore that feeds on other shrimps. Together with its high adaptability and short generation time, this causes the killer shrimp to exclude other shrimps, affecting local food webs and biodiversity. These characteristics make of the killer shrimp a successful exotic invasive species. [details]

Distribution: Dikerogammarus villosus is an immigrant of the Black Sea. This species is expected to occur in all fresh and weakly brackish water. [details]

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