caa a22 4500 463168070 CHVBK 20180406164805.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10530-006-9076-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10530-006-9076-7 A predatory land snail invades central-western Argentina [Elektronische Daten] [Claudio De Francesco, Humberto Lagiglia] The pulmonate land snail, Rumina decollata, is a highly invasive gastropod adapted to arid conditions, and native from the Mediterranean area. It was recorded for the first time in Argentina in 1988, in the northeastern Pampas of the Buenos Aires Province, a region characterized by a humid mesothermal climate with no water deficit. In the present contribution, we report the finding of populations of this species in the semiarid region of La Pampa and Mendoza provinces in central-western Argentina. The present findings extend the invasive distributional range of R. decollata westwards through more than 1000km from the site where it was detected in 1988. Although no damages to agricultural areas have been reported to the moment in Argentina, the presence of R. decollata in semiarid areas warns us about its potential as an important plague in the future. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Argentina nationallicence Rumina decollata nationallicence Terrestrial snail nationallicence La Pampa nationallicence Mendoza nationallicence De Francesco Claudio Centro de Geología de Costas y del Cuaternario, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC 722, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina aut Lagiglia Humberto Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, Parque Mariano Moreno, 5600, San Rafael, Argentina aut Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/7(2007-10-01), 795-798 1387-3547 9:7<795 2007 9 10530 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9076-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9076-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Francesco Claudio Centro de Geología de Costas y del Cuaternario, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, CC 722, 7600, Mar del Plata, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lagiglia Humberto Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael, Parque Mariano Moreno, 5600, San Rafael, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Biological Invasions Springer Netherlands 9/7(2007-10-01), 795-798 1387-3547 9:7<795 2007 9 10530 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer