A5009053401- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Mollusks and Parasites Studies
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
2021-2024
The freshwater snail genus Mercuria is widely distributed in lowland waters across Western Europe, Northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Approximately two-thirds of currently recognised species are described based on their shell morphology, which may vary within due to biotic abiotic factors. Recent molecular phylogenies that included numerous previously documented populations recovered 14 clades, nine correspond nominal five, undescribed taxa. Here, we formally describe five taxa...
Dispersal is known to play an important role in shaping the diversity and geographic range of freshwater gastropods. Here, we used phylogenetic methods test for influence dispersal other biogeographic processes (such as vicariance) on speciation distribution patterns Mercuria Boeters, 1971, a snail genus widely distributed western Palaearctic. The 25 extant species traditionally thought comprise genus, which were described mainly basis morphology, have been recorded from lowland waters both...
ABSTRACT Multilocus phylogenies have shown that soft-part anatomy alone is insufficient for the systematics of valvatiform- and trochiform-shelled springsnails subfamily Islamiinae (family Hydrobiidae) due to morphological similarities between taxa are not closely related. However, a solid knowledge their species boundaries crucial conserve this highly imperilled group. Here, we inferred molecular based on two mitochondrial nuclear gene fragments from representatives three Iberian genus...
The genus Pyramidula presents a Palearctic geographical distribution, being described in Spain four species not distinguishable from an anatomical point of view.In the present study, we compare our samples along with previously recognized P. rupestris, saxatilis, pusilla, cephalonica; jaenensis, and chorismenostoma by means molecular studies.Also, compared jaenensis studied locality rupestris according to shell shape geometric morphometric methods.The analysis Thin-Plate Spline graph showed...