Journalartikel

Jahr der Veröffentlichung: 2012

Seiten: 55-79

Zeitschrift: ZooKeys

Bandnummer: 190

ISSN: 1313-2989

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.190.2555

Verlag: Pensoft Publishers

Abstract: 
Several Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) populations of the central and eastern Iberian Peninsula have been ascribed to P (C.) tutieri (Dupuy, 1851), though recent evidence demonstrates the species could be endemic to the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes in France. Through the identification of cryptic species using a combined morphological and phylogenetic approach, this paper provides a detailed morphological description oil? (C.) astieri, clarifying its taxonomic boundaries and confirming it as a French endemic. In parallel, by comparing Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) populations from the provinces of Castellon and Valencia in Eastern Spain, it was observed that rather than I? (C.) astieri they represented a new species here described as P (C.) hauffei sp. n. Among other characters, the two species show marked differences in shell shape, male and female genital systems, radular formula and concentration of the nervous system. P (C.) hauffei sp. n. was also compared morphologically to another two Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) species living in nearby areas (P. (C.) hinzi Boeters, 1986 and P (C.) navasiana (Fagot, 1907)), molecularly to P (C.) falkneri (Boeters, 1970), the type species of the subgenus, and to the rest of the Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) species described so far. Morphological differentiation between the species is supported by a genetic divergence of 7.4% inferred from a partial sequence (658 bp) of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI). On the basis of an average 8% (5.39 to 11.15%) divergence estimated for the COI gene in other P (Corrosella) species reported in GenBank, the existence of two specific entities is here proposed, which will have impact on conservation policies both in France and in Spain.

Harvard-Zitierstil: Delicado, D. and Ramos, M. (2012) Morphological and molecular evidence for cryptic species of springsnails [genus Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae)], ZooKeys, 190, pp. 55-79. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.190.2555

APA-Zitierstil: Delicado, D., & Ramos, M. (2012). Morphological and molecular evidence for cryptic species of springsnails [genus Pseudamnicola (Corrosella) (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae)]. ZooKeys. 190, 55-79. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.190.2555