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Table 3 Number of snails collected, and size of specimens used in the present study; all specimens collected were females

From: Out of New Zealand: molecular identification of the highly invasive freshwater mollusk Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) in South America

Locality

Specimens observed

Shell size of the smallest specimen (length-wide)

Shell size of the largest specimen (length-wide)

Parque O'Higgins

20

3.5 × 1.7 mm

4.4 × 2.2 mm

Estero La Dehesa

15

2.8 × 1.5 mm

5.1 × 2.6 mm

Chalinga River

39

2.7 × 1.4 mm

4.2 × 1.9 mm

Estero Consuelo

24

2.5 × 1.3 mm

4.4 × 1.9 mm