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Invasion of the flatworms : easily hidden in imported plants, some land flatworms are conquering the world |
Type de document : |
Électronique |
Auteurs : |
Ronald Sluys |
Année de publication : |
2016 |
Article en page(s) : |
288-295 |
Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
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[CBNPMP-Thèmes] Plantes subspontanées, naturalisées, envahissantes
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Résumé : |
"Probably a million more Americans have heard the word flatworm because of me,” says my colleague Jean-Lou Justine, who is an expert on these organisms at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, as he wrote in an email to me last year. In 2014, Justine announced the discovery in France of a land flatworm originally from New Guinea, Platydemus manokwari , which is considered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature to be one of the 100 worst invasive species. It was the first time that P. manokwari had been seen on the European continent. This land flatworm is particularly notorious because it spreads easily and eats native earthworms and snails, thereby affecting local ecosystems. In 2015, Justine reported finding P. manokwari in the United States. Before these two major continental introductions, the New Guinea flatworm had been a problem on a smattering of Indo-Pacific islands but had not reached any mainland, at least not to anyone’s knowledge. But now they seem to be popping up everywhere, and they are not the only species doing so. |
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DOI : 10.1511/2016.122.288 ![link https://doi.org/10.1511/2016.122.288](./styles/zen_one/images/globe.gif) |
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https://biblio.cbnpmp.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=143267 |
in American scientist > 104 (5) (September-October 2016) . - 288-295
Sluys, R.
2016.
Invasion of the flatworms : easily hidden in imported plants, some land flatworms are conquering the world.
American scientist, 104(5): 288-295.
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