Much of what we know about speciation comes from detailed studies of well‐known model
systems. Although there have been several important syntheses on speciation, few (if any) …

Nonmarine molluscs are the major animal group with the greatest number of recorded
extinctions due to anthropogenic impacts, and that number is certainly a serious …

Abstract The Malay Archipelago and the tropical South Pacific (hereafter the Indo-Pacific
region) are considered biodiversity hotspots, yet a general understanding of the origins and …

The fascinating and often unlikely shell shapes in the terrestrial micromollusc family
Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda) provide a particularly attractive set of …

Other than hard bones and shells, it is rare for soft tissues to fossilize, but occasionally they
are well-preserved in amber. Here, we focus on both modern and fossilized species of the …

Abstract The Diplommatinidae (Gastropoda: Cyclophoroidea) from Java is revised based on
507 lots, both from recently collected materials and museum's collections. Twenty-three …

A high degree of intraspecific variation, both genetic and in shell morphology, of the
operculate land snail Cyclophorus fulguratus (Pfeiffer, 1854) suggests that its classification …

Studies on the diversity of land molluscs raise a number of crucial questions that remain
unanswered, or in some cases have not been asked. At the most fundamental level, we …

The micro land snail genus Diplommatina (family Diplommatinidae) is widely distributed in
Southeast Asia and includes many endemic species. Three new species of Diplommatina …

The Bornean representatives of the genus Georissa (Hydrocenidae) have small, dextral,
conical, calcareous shells consisting of ca. three teleoconch whorls. Our recent study on the …