Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad 1831) – Conrad’s false mussel

Information in Alien Species in Poland database are purely scientific and not legally binding.

Status

The species is alien in whole area of its current or past occurrence in Poland

Currently present in the environment

Reproducing in the environment

Numbers or/and range increasing

No data available to assess invasiveness in Poland

Occurrence

Map of occurrence

Areas on the map correspond to pemanent occurrence of the species. Points on the map indicate introduction places and/or single records of the species; they do not always correspond to current presence of the species in a given locality.

Information that could update the map of occurence of the species can be sent to ias@iop.krakow.pl

Earliest introduction/record

in 2010

Types of transport

• Unintentional transport to Poland

Pathways of introduction

• Transport – no further details

Type of release into natural environment

• Transport- Contaminant or Stowaway

References

• Brzana, R., Janas, U., Borecka, A. 2017. New records of Conrad’s false mussel Mytilopsis leucophaeata (Conrad, 1831) in the Vistula Delta Oceanological and Hydrobiological Studies 46: 231-236. link
• Dziubińska A. 2011. Mytilopsis leucophaeata, an alien dreissenid bivalve discovered in the Gulf of Gdańsk (southern Baltic Sea). Oceanologia 651–655. link

Life form: Aquatic mollusc

Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Bivalvia
Order: Veneroida
Family: Dreissenidae