An invasive flatworm from Argentina, Obama nungara, found across France and Europe

Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 07:10 in Biology & Nature

One of the consequences of globalization is the inadvertent human-mediated spread of invasive species. The presence of a new invader, named Obama nungara, is reported in France by an international team led by Jean-Lou Justine of ISYEB (Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France). This is the first study of this invasion, reported in an article published in the open-access journal PeerJ.

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