EPPO Global Database

Pomacea maculata(POMAIN)

Distribution details in Spain

Situation
Current pest situation evaluated by EPPO on the basis of information dated 2023: Present, restricted distribution
First recorded in: 2010
Pest status declared by NPPO: Present, under eradication, only in some parts of the Member State concerned (2020-01)
Comments
EPPO Reporting Service (2012/039) : first found in Cataluna in July 2010, under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2016/203) : an outbreak was found in Cataluña in August 2015 in the rice-growing area of Pals (Girona province), under eradication.

EPPO Reporting Service (2020/036) : Eradicated in province of Girona. Phytosanitary measures are ongoing in the province of Tarragona.

EPPO Reporting Service (2023/233) : found in 2017 in the municipality of Miravet (province of Tarragona, Cataluña), 40 km upstream of the demarcated area. Considered eradicated there in 2023.
References
* Anonymous (2016) Incidencia de plagas y enfermedades en las Comunidades Autónomas en 2015. Phytoma-España no. 278, 16-52 and Phytoma-España no. 279, 16-40.

* Castillo-Ruiz M, Canon-Jones H, Schlotterbeck T, Lopez MA, Tomas A, San Martin R (2018) Safety and efficacy of quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) saponins derived molluscicide to control Pomacea maculata in rice fields in the Ebro Delta, Spain. Crop Protection 111, 42-49.

* Liu X, Zhou Y, Ouyang S, Wu X (2019) Phylogeographic patterns and demographic history of Pomacea canaliculata and Pomacea maculata from different countries (Ampullariidae, Gastropoda, Mollusca). Nature Conservation 36, 71-92.

* NPPO of Spain (2011-10, 2020-01, 2023-08).

* ORDRE ACC/107/2023, de 2 de maig, per la qual es modifica l'Ordre AAR/404/2010, de 27 de juliol, per la qual es declara oficialment l'existència d'un focus del cargol poma a l'hemidelta esquerre de l'Ebre. Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya 8910. https://dogc.gencat.cat/ca/document-del-dogc/?documentId=959366