Major shortfalls impairing knowledge and conservation of freshwater molluscs

M Lopes-Lima, N Riccardi, M Urbanska, F Köhler… - Hydrobiologia, 2021‏ - Springer
Molluscs are among the most diverse and widespread animal groups in freshwater habitats.
Unfortunately, like most freshwater taxa, they are decreasing dramatically and are now …

Freshwater Mollusca of the Circumpolar Arctic: a review on their taxonomy, diversity and biogeography

MV Vinarski, IN Bolotov, OV Aksenova, ES Babushkin… - Hydrobiologia, 2021‏ - Springer
Since the end of the 19th century, the circumpolar fauna of freshwater Mollusca has not
been reviewed despite the substantial increase of knowledge on this subject. A review of the …

Coexisting cryptic species as a model system in integrative taxonomy

C Fisˇer, K Koselj - Cryptic species: Morphological stasis …, 2022‏ - books.google.com
The term 'cryptic'species refers to pairs of species with no clear morphological differences
that could have been delimited from one another only with molecular tools (Knowlton 1993; …

Selected wildlife trematodes

MG Bolek, JT Detwiler, HA Stigge - Digenetic Trematodes, 2019‏ - Springer
The trematodes are a species-rich group of parasites, with some estimates suggesting that
there are more than 24,000 species. However, recent interests on the biology of trematodes …

Two new pseudocryptic species in the medium-sized common European land snails, Fruticicola Held, 1838; as a result of phylogeographic analysis of Fruticicola …

S Hofman, RAD Cameron, M Proćków, I Sîrbu… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Fruticicola fruticum (OF Müller, 1774), a medium-sized helicoid snail in the Camaenidae,
has a wide range in Europe, reaching from the Urals and the Caucasus to the Balkans, and …

Individual small in‐stream barriers contribute little to strong local population genetic structure five strictly aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa

M Weiss, H Weigand, F Leese - Ecology and evolution, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Water flow in river networks is frequently regulated by man‐made in‐stream barriers. These
obstacles can hinder dispersal of aquatic organisms and isolate populations leading to the …

Isolation and endemism in subterranean aquatic snails: unexpected case of Montenegrospeum bogici (Pešić et Glöer, 2012) (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea …

A Falniowski, V Pešić, B Lewarne, J Grego… - Hydrobiologia, 2021‏ - Springer
The subterranean aquatic snails may serve as a model of endemism and isolation vs.
migration in subterranean habitats. The aim of the present paper is to verify the hypothesis …

Population genetics and geometric morphometrics of the freshwater snail Segmentina nitida reveal cryptic sympatric species of conservation value in Europe

CS Hobbs, R Vega, F Rahman, GJ Horsburgh… - Conservation …, 2021‏ - Springer
Segmentina nitida Müller 1774 is a rare European freshwater snail of drainage ditches and
marshland, which has seen a marked decrease in range (~ 80%) over the last 100 years in …

Crenobiont, stygophile and stygobiont molluscs in the hydrographic area of the Trebišnjica River Basin

A Falniowski, B Lewarne, A Rysiewska… - ZooKeys, 2021‏ - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In the paper the crenobiont, stygophile and stygobiont malacofauna of the karst area of
Popovo Polje around Trebinje (Eastern Herzegovina, BiH) is presented. The materials were …

Distribution patterns and habitat requirements of freshwater snails in man-made ponds

A Spyra - Annales Zoologici Fennici, 2018‏ - BioOne
The study was carried out to understand the factors that affect community structure and
generate heterogeneity in gastropod species diversity in various types of man-made ponds …