Aliens and Returnees: Review of Neobiotic Species of Freshwater Mollusks in Siberia from the Kazakhstan Steppe to the Arctic Tundra
Babushkin E.S. Nekhaev I.O. Vinarski M.V. Yanygina L.V.
March 2023MDPI
Diversity
2023#15Issue 3
This article reviews all available information on the species composition, current distribution, and origins of the neobiotic (non-indigenous and restoring the lost range) freshwater mollusks in Siberia. An extensive literary search has been carried out, and virtually all existing publications of recent decades on the findings of freshwater mollusk species new to Siberia were taken into account. We examined extensive malacological collections of some of Russia’s and Kazakhstan’s scientific organizations. The core of the examined material is our own observations and collections made in various parts of Siberia and adjacent areas. An annotated checklist of neobiotic species of mollusks reliably recorded in Siberia is presented, and probable mechanisms and “corridors” of infiltration of these species into the region are discussed. Most of the discovered snail species belong to a group popular among aquarists, and their source of introduction is obvious. Another large portion of species infiltrate into the region with the development of fish farming. A classification of species of neobiotic freshwater mollusks of Siberia was proposed and a forecast was made for changes in the Siberian freshwater malacofauna for the coming decades. In our opinion, at present it is possible to accept the newest stage in the genesis of the freshwater malacofauna of Siberia, occurring in conditions specific to the Anthropocene.
continental water bodies , dispersal , Eurasia , Mollusca , non-indigenous species , range restoration
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Scientific and Educational Center of the Institute of Natural and Technical Sciences, Surgut State University, Lenina Ave. 1, Surgut, 628403, Russian Federation
Tyumen Scientific Center, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Malygina St. 86, Tyumen, 625026, Russian Federation
Laboratory of Macroecology & Biogeography of Invertebrates, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 7/9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
Institute of Zoology, Al-Farabi Ave. 93, Almaty, 050060, Kazakhstan
Department of Applied Ecology, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya Emb. 7/9, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation
Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Molodezhnaya St. 1, Barnaul, 656038, Russian Federation
Department of Zoology and Physiology, Altai State University, Lenina St. 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russian Federation
Scientific and Educational Center of the Institute of Natural and Technical Sciences
Tyumen Scientific Center
Laboratory of Macroecology & Biogeography of Invertebrates
Institute of Zoology
Department of Applied Ecology
Institute for Water and Environmental Problems
Department of Zoology and Physiology
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