How to describe a cryptic species? Practical challenges of molecular taxonomy

KM Jörger, M Schrödl - Frontiers in zoology, 2013 - Springer
cryptic species traditional lines of evidence in taxonomy need … serve as the backbone of a
taxonomic description. The present … taxonomy novel diagnoses based on molecular data. The …

Cryptic species as a window into the paradigm shift of the species concept

C Fišer, CT Robinson, F Malard - Molecular Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… ) and (Amphipoda/Amphipods * phylogeography) and (Amphipoda/Amphipods * molecular
taxonomy). The search before the year 2000 yielded no results; hence, we analysed the …

Molecular taxonomy and naming of five cryptic species of Alviniconcha snails (Gastropoda: Abyssochrysoidea) from hydrothermal vents

SB Johnson, A Warén, V Tunnicliffe… - Systematics and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Cryptic species (distinct evolutionary lineages with a common morphological phenotype) …
in underestimates of species diversity at local scales and overestimates of species overlap at …

Finding evolutionary processes hidden in cryptic species

TH Struck, JL Feder, M Bendiksby, S Birkeland… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
… Regardless, our literature survey (Box 2) revealed that many cryptic species have been
defined based on molecular data and taxonomic history, with little regard for actually quantifying …

How many coral reef fish species are there? Cryptic diversity and the new molecular taxonomy

BC Victor - Ecology of Fishes on Coral Reefs. Cambridge …, 2015 - books.google.com
… up into parapatric complexes of cryptic species. On the vastly greater … species do have
relatively large and/or longlived larvae. Future research on sympatric cryptic lineages and species

Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation

D Bickford, DJ Lohman, NS Sodhi, PKL Ng… - Trends in ecology & …, 2007 - cell.com
molecular studies has motivated the collection of new specimens of many species, and the
discovery of cryptic species … Thus, taxonomic favouritism in the literature does not necessarily …

Cosmopolitan versus cryptic meiofaunal polychaete species: an approach to a molecular taxonomy

W Westheide, H Schmidt - Helgoland Marine Research, 2003 - Springer
… As a result of longterm research in these animals, we find much evidence that the majority
of these cosmopolitan species are actually pairs or complexes of cryptic species (Schmidt and …

The importance of naming cryptic species and the conservation of endemic subterranean amphipods

T Delić, P Trontelj, M Rendoš, C Fišer - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
… importance of cryptic species in conservation by scrutinizing the South European cryptic
complex of … of cryptic species by molecular taxonomic methods do not culminate in naming those …

DNA barcoding of Cuban freshwater fishes: evidence for cryptic species and taxonomic conflicts

A Lara, JL Ponce de León, R Rodriguez… - Molecular ecology …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
… in these species, our result strongly suggests that the taxonomy of this genus deserves
further attention, particularly the possible assignment of the Jamaican species to a new genus. …

Nomenclature for the nameless: a proposal for an integrative molecular taxonomy of cryptic diversity exemplified by planktonic foraminifera

R Morard, G Escarguel, AKM Weiner, A Andre… - Systematic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
cryptic species. … molecular ecology has added a layer of cryptic diversity to the classically
described morphospecies. MOTUs often correspond better to biological (reproductive) species