page_title: List of invasive species in Europe
section_title: Marine
hierarchical_section_title: List of invasive species in Europe / Animals / Molluscs / Marine
caption_attribution_description: Latina: Rapana venosa (Valenciennes, 1846) Русский: Рапана, Черное море, 2008 г. (Rapana venosa) English: Veined rapa whelk (Rapana venosa). The Black Sea, 2008 Français&#160;: Rapana venosa, un muricidé perceur invasif prélevé dans la mer noire. Photo prise en 2008. Українська: Рапана Polski: Rapana Български: Рапан 日本語: アカニシ
context_page_description: This is a list of invasive species in Europe. A species is regarded as invasive if it has become introduced to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally and becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location. An invasive species will be one that thrives in its new environment and negatively influences the ecology and biodiversity of that ecosystem. Negative effects can affect also humans, by compromising human health or socioeconomic systems.
  The term invasive species refers to a subset of those species defined as introduced species. If a species has been introduced but remains local, and is not problematic to human systems or to the local biodiversity, then it cannot be considered to be invasive, and does not belong on this list.
context_section_description: Arcuatula senhousia (Asian date mussel)
  Brachidontes pharaonis (variable mussel)
  Crassostrea gigas (Pacific oyster)
  Crepidula fornicata (Common slipper shell)
  Ensis directus (American jack-knife clam)
  Petricolaria pholadiformis (false angel wing)
  Pinctada radiata (Atlantic pearl-oyster)
  Rapana venosa (Veined rapa whelk)
caption: The veined rapa whelk, Rapana venosa
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