Abstract
Sampling in May 2008 by the author in the Main-Danube canal (Germany) as well as earlier sampling by Van der Velde and Platvoet (2007) indicated that the quagga mussel introduction into Western Europe was not the result of range expansion from its native range through the River Danube and subsequently the Main-Danube canal and River Rhine, as previously suggested.Ballast water transport and release in the Hollandsch Diep, a section of one of the distributaries in the Rhine delta (The Netherlands), is now considered the most likely vector and dispersal source.
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