Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
| Autor: | Martin Haase, Susan Zielske |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Species complex
Tateidae Truncatelloidea Zoology Conservation Littorinimorpha Critically endangered South Pacific New Caledonia IUCN Caenogastropoda IUCN Red List Animalia Colonization Wiwaxia Hygrophila Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics integrative taxonomy spring snails cryptic species biology Ecology Genetic data Cephalornis biology.organism_classification Hemistomia Animal Science and Zoology endemic Research Article |
| Zdroj: | ZooKeys 523: 63-87 ZooKeys |
| ISSN: | 1313-2970 1313-2989 |
| Popis: | During the course of a project aiming at the reconstruction of the colonization of the South Pacific islands by tateid gastropods based on molecular data we discovered five new species on New Caledonia belonging to the genera Hemistomia and Leiorhagium, respectively. We describe these species based on morphological, anatomical and genetic data. All five species are morphologically cryptic as they closely resemble or are even indistinguishable from known species stressing the importance of a comprehensive taxonomic approach integrating several methods. As a consequence of their small and fragmented geographic ranges and the rapidly progressing anthropogenic land cover changes on New Caledonia, all five species qualify as critically endangered according to the criteria of the IUCN. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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