Table 1 Ponto-Caspian AIS invertebrate taxa having populations in freshwater (0–0.5 ppt), brackish (0.5–30 ppt), and marine (30–35+ ppt) environments (scientific nomenclature with authors according to WoRMS—World Register of Marine Species 2022), based on GRIIS (Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species 2022)
Taxonomic group | Species and naming authority | Countries where the species is present (based on GRIIS and personal collections) | Salinity regime (based on GRIIS and GLANSIS) | References that confirm presence in freshwater and saline adaptive zones |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Crustacea Arthropoda | Amathillina cristata Sars, 1894 | HU, UA | Freshwater/brackish | |
Cardiophilus marisnigrae Miloslawskaya, 1931 | HU | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Caspiocuma campylaspoides (Sars, 1897) | MD, HU | Freshwater/brackish/marine | ||
Cercopagis pengoi (Ostroumov, 1891) | CA, DK, EE, DE, LV, LT, PL, RU, SE, US, FI, UA | Freshwater/brackish/ marine; also, in freshwater Great Lakes (GLANSIS) | ||
Chelicorophium chelicorne (Sars, 1895) | HU, UK | Freshwater/brackish | Uryupova and Mugue (2007) | |
Chelicorophium curvispinum (Sars, 1895) | AT, BY, BE, HR, EE, DE, HU, IE, Lit, PL, RU, RS, CH, NL, FR, U, GB, CR, LV | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Chelicorophium maeoticum (Sowinsky, 1898) | HU, RM | Freshwater/brackish | Ozbek (2004) | |
Chelicorophium mucronatum (Sars, 1895) | HU, UA | Freshwater/brackish | Uryupova and Mugue (2007) | |
Chelicorophium nobile (Sars, 1895) | HU, UA | Freshwater/brackish | Uryupova and Mugue (2007) | |
Chelicorophium robustum (Sars, 1895) | BY, DE, HU, FR, NL, SK, UA | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Chelicorophium sowinskyi (Martynov, 1924) | NL, HU, RU | Freshwater/brackish | Uryupova and Mugue (2007) | |
Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwald, 1841) | AT, BY, HR, FR, DE, HU, PL, RU, CH, GB, SK, MD, NL, UA, SE | Freshwater/brackish | Bij de Vaate et al. (2002), Dobrzycka-Krahel and Rzemykowska (2010) | |
Dikerogammarus villosus (Sowinsky, 1894) | AT, BY, BE, HR, CR, FI, FR, DE, HU, PL, RU, RS, SK, ES, CH, GB, NL, IT, MD, SE, UA | Freshwater/brackish | Bij de Vaate et al. (2002), Dobrzycka-Krahel and Rzemykowska (2010) | |
Echinogammarus berilloni (Catta, 1878) | BE, CH, DE, FR | Freshwater/brackish/marine | Schmidt-Drewello et al. (2016) | |
Echinogammarus ischnus (Stebbing, 1899) | AT, DE, HU, SK, CH, BY, GB, LT, PL, SE, U, BE, FR, NL | Freshwater/brackish and also in freshwater Great Lakes (GLANSIS) | ||
Echinogammarus warpachowskyi (Sars, 1894) | SE | Freshwater/brackish | Bij de Vaate et al. (2002) | |
Echinogammarus trichiatus (Martynov, 1932) | AT, BE, DE, HU, PL, SK, CH, BY, FR, NL, UA, SE, BY | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Evadne anonyx Sars, 1897 | FI, PL, SE | Freshwater/brackish/marine | ||
Hemimysis anomala Sars, 1907 | AT, BE, HR, FI, FR, DE, HU, IE, LT, PL, RU, MX, RS, SK, SE, CH, UA, GB, EE, NL | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Obesogammarus crassus (Sars, 1894) | BY, DE, LT, PL, RU, HU, UA | Freshwater/brackish | Bij de Vaate et al. (2002), Dobrzycka-Krahel and Rzemykowska (2010) | |
Pontogammarus robustoides (Sars, 1894) | BY, FI, DE, LT, PL, RU, SE, MD, EE, HU, UA | Freshwater/brackish | Bij de Vaate et al. (2002), Dobrzycka-Krahel and Rzemykowska (2010) | |
Stenogammarus carausui Derzhavin and Pjatakova, 1962 | HU | Freshwater/brackish | WoRMS (2022) | |
Stenogammarus compressus (Sars, 1894) | HU | Freshwater/brackish | Soheil et al. (2018) | |
Stenogammarus macrurus (Sars, 1894) | HU | Freshwater/brackish | Copilaș-Ciocianu and Sidorov (2021) | |
Stenogammarus similis (Sars, 1894) | HU | Freshwater/brackish | WoRMS (2022) | |
Uroniphargoides spinicaudatus (Carausu, 1943) | HU | Freshwater/brackish | Copilaș-Ciocianu and Sidorov (2021) | |
Yogmelina limana Karaman and Barnard, 1979 | HU | Freshwater/brackish | Copilaș-Ciocianu and Sidorov (2021) | |
Bivalvia, Mollusca | Dreissena polymorpha (Pallas, 1771) | AT, BY, BE, BG, CA, HR, CR, DK, EE, FI, FR, DE, GR, HU, IE, IQ, JM, LV, LT, NL, PL, PT, KR, RU, RS, SI, ES, SE, CH, U, GB, US, AZ, ID, IT, LU, MX, NL | Freshwater/brackish; also, in freshwater Great Lakes (GLANSIS) | |
Dreissena rostriformis (bugensis) Andrusov 1897 | CA, DE, PT, MD, RO, HU, RU, UA, US, ES, FR, AZ, BE, BG, GB, NL, SE | Freshwater/brackish; also, in freshwater Great Lakes (GLANSIS) | ||
Hypanis glabra (Ostroumoff, 1905) | UA | Freshwater/brackish | WoRMS (2022) | |
Lithoglyphus naticoides (Pfeiffer, 1828) | BE, BY, DE, FR, HU, LT, PL, RS, UA, RU, SE | Freshwater/brackish | Falniowski and Szarowska (2012) | |
Cnidaria | Cordylophora caspia (Pallas, 1771) | AT, AU, BE, CA, CL, DK, FI, DE, LT, LU, MX, NO, PA, PL, PT, RU, ES, SE, TR, GB, US, EE, FR, HU, NL, NZ, UA, IT | Freshwater/brackish; also, in freshwater Great Lakes (GLANSIS) | |
Annelida | Caspiobdella fadejewi (Epshtein, 1961) | NL, AT, BY, CH, DE, FR, PL, RU | Freshwater/brackish/marine | Bielecki (1990) |
Hypania invalida (Grube, 1960) | AT, BY, BA, DE, PL, RU, RS, CH, UA, GB, NL | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Isochaetides michaelseni (Lastockin, 1937) | EE | Freshwater/brackish | Borkhanuddin et al. (2014) | |
Potamothrix bavaricus (Oschmann, 1913) | BY, EE, PL, US | Freshwater/brackish | Timm (2013) | |
Potamothrix hammoniensis (Michaelsen, 1901) | PL | Freshwater/brackish | Timm (2013) | |
Potamothrix heuscheri (Bretscher, 1900) | RU, SE, BY, EE, PL | Freshwater/brackish | ||
Potamothrix moldaviensis (Vejdovskỳ and Mrázek, 1903) | BY, IE, PL, SE, EE, US | Freshwater/marine | ||
Potamothrix vejdovskyi (Hrabě, 1941) | BY, IE, PL, RU, US, SE | Freshwater/brackish |