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ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

The driving effect of water immersion on Pomacea canaliculata eggs

Jie Li1 ,  Xiaohua Bai1* ,  Zhiwei Tan1 ,  Leilin Yang1
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1 Yunnan Key Laboratory for Pollution Processes and Control of Plateau Lake-Watersheds, Yunnan Academy of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China
AJWEP, 026210152 https://doi.org/10.36922/AJWEP026210152
Received: 18 May 2026 | Revised: 6 June 2026 | Accepted: 12 June 2026 | Published online: 8 July 2026
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Bioremediation of Environmental Pollutants)
© 2026 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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Abstract

Pomacea canaliculata poses a significant threat to agricultural wetlands, yet chemical control measures raise environmental concerns. This study aims to evaluate timed water submersion as a non-chemical strategy for suppressing egg hatching of this invasive species. Controlled inundation was tested as a non-chemical strategy to suppress egg hatching of the invasive P. canaliculata, and egg abundance was estimated using morphometric egg-mass parameters under laboratory conditions. Short-term immersion (1–2 days) produced no significant reduction in hatching rate, while immersion for 4–5 days significantly delayed embryonic development and reduced final hatching success. Complete hatching failure was observed for eggs subjected to continuous five-day submersion under standardized laboratory settings. Visual observations of 10-day prolonged flooding, which triggered extensive egg detachment and embryonic necrosis, were only auxiliary qualitative recordings and were not included in the formal quantitative hatching trial spanning 0–5 immersion days. Morphometric analysis confirmed a significantly positive linear correlation between egg number and egg-mass longitudinal length (p < 0.05), enabling non-destructive egg-quantity prediction based on egg-mass length. Our results confirm that timed water submersion serves as an eco-friendly alternative for controlling golden apple snail proliferation, yet further field validations are required before large-scale agricultural application.

Keywords
Driving effect
Pomacea canaliculate
Water immersion
Hatching rate
Hatching time
Funding
This work was supported by the Science and Technology Plan Project of Yunnan Province, “Research and application demonstration of key technologies for regime shift monitoring, early warning, and multi-dimensional ecological restoration of Dianchi Lake” (202603AC100014), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China- Yunnan Joint Fund (U2202209).
Conflict of interest
The authors declare they have no competing interests.
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