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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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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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