Camaenid land snails are the subject of this study, the object of which is the historical
biogeography of eastern Australia, with phylogenetic diversity the modus operandi. The …

Excellently preserved fossils often provide important insights into evolutionary histories and
adaptations to environmental change in Earth's biogeologic record. Mid-Cretaceous …

Aim Camaenidae are amongst the most diverse land snail groups in Southeast Asia and
Australasia, but their phylogeny and biogeography are poorly understood. The monophyly …

Background Partulid tree snails are endemic to Pacific high islands and have experienced
extraordinary rates of extinction in recent decades. Although they collectively range across a …

Discussion Tropical land snails are known to possess high allopatric and sympatric diversity,
especially those inhabiting limestone karsts (as discussed in Chapters 2 and 3). The spatial …

Thanks to the Early Career Research Grant and other grants, we developed an integrative
approach combining morphological observations with molecular markers (microsatellites …

Three species of camaenid land snails occur on Barrow Island: Quistrachia barrowensis and
two previously unassigned species of Rhagada. Based on morphological re-evaluation and …

We re-assess the value of morphological specific descriptors within the spring-snail genus
Bythinella by sequencing mitochondrial COI and nuclear ITS1 gene fragments. Taxonomic …

Five land snails and the borings of marine bivalves are reported from Hkamti (Khamti) amber
whose age was recently uranium-lead dated to be ca. 110 Ma, in contrast to the nearby …

Mountains are considered island-like systems often characterized by exceptional
biodiversity and endemism. There are many highly isolated mountain ranges in Africa that …