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A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists

BACKGROUND: Despite their large size, striking colouration and genital extravagance, the taxonomy of the European giant keelback slugs of the genus Limax is still poorly understood. Preliminary morphological and molecular data suggest that many unnamed or unrecognised species exist, especially in th...

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Autores principales: Schilthuizen, Menno, Thompson, Cameron Graham, de Vries, Rick, van Peursen, Anthonie D. P., Paterno, Marta, Maestri, Simone, Marcolongo, Luca, Esposti, Chiara Degli, Delledonne, Massimo, Njunjić, Iva
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9848616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761626
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e69685
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author Schilthuizen, Menno
Thompson, Cameron Graham
de Vries, Rick
van Peursen, Anthonie D. P.
Paterno, Marta
Maestri, Simone
Marcolongo, Luca
Esposti, Chiara Degli
Delledonne, Massimo
Njunjić, Iva
author_facet Schilthuizen, Menno
Thompson, Cameron Graham
de Vries, Rick
van Peursen, Anthonie D. P.
Paterno, Marta
Maestri, Simone
Marcolongo, Luca
Esposti, Chiara Degli
Delledonne, Massimo
Njunjić, Iva
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description BACKGROUND: Despite their large size, striking colouration and genital extravagance, the taxonomy of the European giant keelback slugs of the genus Limax is still poorly understood. Preliminary morphological and molecular data suggest that many unnamed or unrecognised species exist, especially in the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Balkans. NEW INFORMATION: We organised a citizen science expedition to Durmitor National Park in Montenegro and discovered a new species, genetically distinct, but morphologically similar to the sympatric L.cinereoniger Wolf 1803 and describe it as L.pseudocinereoniger.
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spelling pubmed-98486162023-02-08 A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists Schilthuizen, Menno Thompson, Cameron Graham de Vries, Rick van Peursen, Anthonie D. P. Paterno, Marta Maestri, Simone Marcolongo, Luca Esposti, Chiara Degli Delledonne, Massimo Njunjić, Iva Biodivers Data J Single Taxon Treatment BACKGROUND: Despite their large size, striking colouration and genital extravagance, the taxonomy of the European giant keelback slugs of the genus Limax is still poorly understood. Preliminary morphological and molecular data suggest that many unnamed or unrecognised species exist, especially in the Alps, the Mediterranean and the Balkans. NEW INFORMATION: We organised a citizen science expedition to Durmitor National Park in Montenegro and discovered a new species, genetically distinct, but morphologically similar to the sympatric L.cinereoniger Wolf 1803 and describe it as L.pseudocinereoniger. Pensoft Publishers 2022-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC9848616/ /pubmed/36761626 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e69685 Text en Menno Schilthuizen, Cameron Graham Thompson, Rick de Vries, Anthonie D. P. van Peursen, Marta Paterno, Simone Maestri, Luca Marcolongo, Chiara Degli Esposti, Massimo Delledonne, Iva Njunjić https://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 Single Taxon Treatment
Schilthuizen, Menno
Thompson, Cameron Graham
de Vries, Rick
van Peursen, Anthonie D. P.
Paterno, Marta
Maestri, Simone
Marcolongo, Luca
Esposti, Chiara Degli
Delledonne, Massimo
Njunjić, Iva
A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title_full A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title_fullStr A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title_full_unstemmed A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title_short A new giant keelback slug of the genus Limax from the Balkans, described by citizen scientists
title_sort new giant keelback slug of the genus limax from the balkans, described by citizen scientists
topic Single Taxon Treatment
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9848616/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36761626
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e69685
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