ABSTRACT 2,604 names at the rank of subtribe, tribe, subfamily, family and superfamily
have been proposed for Recent and fossil gastropods, and another 35 for …

Museomics, a term coined by Drs. Stephan Schuster and Webb Miller in∼ 2009, refers to
“the large-scale analysis of the DNA content of museum collections”(http://mammoth. psu …

Many taxonomic groups successfully exploit groundwater environments and have adapted
to a subterranean (stygobiotic) existence. Among these groups are freshwater gastropods …

Biodiversity studies are commonly conducted using 18S rRNA genes. In this study, we
compared the inter-species divergence of variable regions (V1–9) within the copepod 18S …

The fifth mass extinction event (MEE) at the Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) boundary 66
million years ago (Ma) led to massive species loss but also triggered the diversification of …

To what extent is the relative biodiversity of some flagship conservation sites a result of
differential attention? Knysna estuarine bay is the topmost ranked South African estuary for …

Abstract William Henry Benson (1803–1870) made extensive collections of Mollusca,
particularly land snails, from South Africa, Mauritius, and especially from the Indian …

Valvatiform gastropods of the family Hydrobiidae are frequently found in European spring-
fed systems. Their simplified and sometimes convergent morphological structures and …

Abstract Background The New Zealand mud snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843)
is among the most widespread non-indigenous mollusk in the world. Based on a …

The freshwater snail genus Mercuria is widely distributed in lowland waters across Western
Europe, Northern Africa and the Mediterranean islands. Approximately two-thirds of the …