Invasive Crustaceans of Concern in Georgia

10 Species

Subject Name	Scientific Name
European green crab	Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Indo Pacific swimming crab	Charybdis hellerii (A. Milne-Edwards)
Chinese mitten crab	Eriocheir sinensis H. Milne Edwards, 1853
titan acorn barnacle	Megabalanus coccopoma (Darwin, 1854)
gray-speckled crayfish	Orconectes palmeri creolanus (Creaser, 1933)
northern crayfish	Orconectes virilis (Hagen, 1870)
isopod	Paradella dianae (Menzies, 1962)
green porcelain crab	Petrolisthes armatus (Gibbes, 1850)
veined rapa whelk	Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846)
isopod	Synidotea laticauda J. E. Benedict, 1897

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Last updated on Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 02:14 PM