Sungha Cho‡, Inho Yang‡, Jong Seong Khim§, Jinsoon Park‡Corresponding author: Jinsoon Park ( jpark@kmou.ac.kr ) © Sungha Cho, Inho Yang, Jong Seong Khim, Jinsoon Park. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Cho S, Yang I, Khim JS, Park J (2023) First reliable report of the Nassarius sinarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda) from Korea as an invasive species. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e99672 |  |
Two live specimens of the mud snail, Nassarius sinarum, was collected from the Yeongsan River estuary in Jeollanam-do, Korea, during June 2022. The species was identified based on its morphology and DNA barcoding.
Morphological descriptions and photographs of N. sinarum were used to verify its occurrence in Korean waters as an invasive species. The species is characteristic in its axial ribs, which weaken towards the outer lip. Molecular analysis of the mitochondrial DNA cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene showed that the specimen belonged to N. sinarum with 98.48–99.69% sequence similarity. The new Korean name of “No-lan-jul-job-ssal-mu-nui-go-dung; 노란줄좁쌀무늬고둥” was proposed for the species.