Cryptic diversity in a widespread land snail: revision of the genus Xanthomelon Martens, 1860 from the Australian Monsoon Tropics (Pulmonata, Camaenidae)

F Köhler, I Burghardt - Zoologica Scripta, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… The land snail fauna of northern Australia is dominated by members of one family, the … and
ecologically most diverse land snail family in Australia. Camaenid snails occupy a wide range …

Cryptic diversity in a chirally variable land snail

MV Modica, P Colangelo, A Hallgass… - Italian Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Jaminia quadridens (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Pulmonata: Stylommatophora:
Enidae) is a land snail living up to 2400 m above sea level on calcareous meadow slopes. It …

When is a “cryptic” species not a cryptic species: a consideration from the Holarctic micro-landsnail genus Euconulus (Gastropoda: Stylommatophora)

V Horsáková, JC Nekola, M Horsák - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… We present a Holarctic-scale phylogenetic study of the land snail genus Euconulus. … “fully
cryptic” species, additional criteria should be met to propound a cryptic species hypothesis, …

Cryptic diversity, molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the rock-and leaf litter-dwelling land snails of Belau (Republic of Palau, Oceania)

RJ Rundell - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The endemic diplommatinid land snails (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) of Belau (Republic of
Palau, Micronesia) are an exceptionally diverse group of largely undescribed species …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptic diversity of limestone karst inhabiting land snails (Cyclophorus spp.) in northern Vietnam, their evolutionary history and the description of four new …

KCM von Oheimb, PV von Oheimb, T Hirano, TV Do… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
… , the presence of undetected cryptic species can pose severe problems. The present study
focuses on cryptic diversity among karst-inhabiting land snails of the genus Cyclophorus in …

[HTML][HTML] … and species delimitations of the operculated land snail Cyclophorus volvulus (Gastropoda: Cyclophoridae) reveal cryptic diversity and new species in …

N Nantarat, C Sutcharit, P Tongkerd, CM Wade… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
… Notably, similar genetic distances were inferred to be indicative of distinct species in studies
of other land snails 7,21 . Generally, cryptic diversity is common among land snails that are …

[HTML][HTML] Slow and steady saves the race: molecular and morphological analysis of three new cryptic species of Iberus land snails from the Iberian Peninsula

J Liétor, AR Tudela, PA Jódar, MJ Jowers… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2024 - Springer
… ortizi and three new cryptic species that are described herein… into the evolution of land snails
in southeastern Spain, with … study of the evolution of land snails, including the sampling of …

Discordance between morphological and taxonomic diversity: land snails of oceanic archipelagos

KA Triantis, F Rigal, CE Parent… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… record as fossils or empty shells, nor about cryptic species that might have been discovered
had … The number of indigenous species, genera and families of land snails, and the range of …

Barcoding of South African forest‐dwelling snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) reveals widespread cryptic diversity

EM Raphalo, ML Cole, SR Daniels - Invertebrate Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… The majority of land snails in South Africa are litter dwelling, and these were found by
scratching through the leaf litter on the forest floor and turning over fallen logs. The current study …

Cryptic genetic divergence and associated morphological differentiation in the arboreal land snail Satsuma (Luchuhadra) largillierti (Camaenidae) endemic to the …

Y Kameda, A Kawakita, M Kato - Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2007 - Elsevier
… During the past decades, land snails have been extensively … Because most land snails are
hermaphrodite, researches … of unique situations that land snails provide, they have become …