Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)

Abstract. 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 spec...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Haase, Martin, Zielske, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pensoft Publishers 2015
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26478699
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.523.6066
_version_ 1782394692986470400
author Haase, Martin
Zielske, Susan
author_facet Haase, Martin
Zielske, Susan
author_sort Haase, Martin
collection PubMed
description Abstract. 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.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4602297
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2015
publisher Pensoft Publishers
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-46022972015-10-16 Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae) Haase, Martin Zielske, Susan Zookeys Research Article Abstract. 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. Pensoft Publishers 2015-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4602297/ /pubmed/26478699 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.523.6066 Text en Martin Haase, Susan Zielske http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Research Article
Haase, Martin
Zielske, Susan
Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title_full Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title_fullStr Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title_full_unstemmed Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title_short Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae)
title_sort five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from new caledonia (caenogastropoda, truncatelloidea, tateidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602297/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26478699
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.523.6066
work_keys_str_mv AT haasemartin fivenewcrypticfreshwatergastropodspeciesfromnewcaledoniacaenogastropodatruncatelloideatateidae
AT zielskesusan fivenewcrypticfreshwatergastropodspeciesfromnewcaledoniacaenogastropodatruncatelloideatateidae