Predation by blue crabs, Callinectes sapidus, on rapa whelks, Rapana venosa: possible natural controls for an invasive species?

By J. Harding. 2003

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Gorging on gobies: beneficial effects of alien prey on a threatened vertebrate (2006, background): “There are a number of examples of predators that now consume introduced prey species (Adams and Mitchell 1995; Penchaszadeh et al. 2000; Harding 2003; Flueck 2004; Gregory and Isaac 2004; Kelly and Dick 2005; Maerz et al. 2005), but we know of just one other case for which quantitative data are avai”
Impacts of Invasive Species on Food Webs: A Review of Empirical Data (2017, background): “For example, the predatory native blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, controls populations of invasive green crabs, Carcinus maenas (DeRivera et al., 2005), and possibly also of invasive whelks (Harding, 2003) and zebra mussels (Molloy et al., 1994) in North America.”
Can Invasive Species Facilitate Native Species? Evidence of How, When, and Why These Impacts Occur (2006, background): “Nonindigenous Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas) fall prey to native herring gulls (Larus argentatus) in the Wadden Sea (Cadee 2001), and blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus) in the Chesapeake Bay prey upon the invasive rapa whelk, Rapana venosa (Harding 2003).”