Major shortfalls impairing knowledge and conservation of freshwater molluscs

M Lopes-Lima, N Riccardi, M Urbanska, F Köhler… - Hydrobiologia, 2021 - Springer
Molluscs are among the most diverse and widespread animal groups in freshwater habitats.
Unfortunately, like most freshwater taxa, they are decreasing dramatically and are now …

A DNA barcode reference library for endemic Ponto-Caspian amphipods

D Copilaş-Ciocianu, T Rewicz, AF Sands, D Palatov… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Ponto-Caspian region is an endemicity hotspot that harbours several
crustacean radiations, among which amphipods are the most diverse. These poorly known …

A widespread Ponto-Caspian invader with a mistaken identity: integrative taxonomy elucidates the confusing taxonomy of Trichogammarus trichiatus …

D Copilaș-Ciocianu, D Palatov… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Amphipods have diversified greatly in the Ponto-Caspian region. Although many of these
species are prominent invaders their systematics remains unclear. Taking an integrative …

An integrative insight into the diversity, distribution, and biogeography of the freshwater endemic clade of the Ponticola syrman group (Teleostei: Gobiidae) in the …

F Zarei, HR Esmaeili, R Sadeghi… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater habitats of the Caucasus biodiversity hotspot represent a center of endemism for
the gobiid genus Ponticola Iljin, 1927. Hitherto, large‐scale molecular studies, owing to …

Molecular markers and SEM imaging reveal pseudocryptic diversity within the Ponto-Caspian low-profile amphipod invader Dikerogammarus bispinosus

H Morhun, D Copilas-Ciocianu, T Rewicz… - The European …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The Ponto-Caspian amphipod Dikerogammarus bispinosus was originally
described from the Black Sea basin. Its recent discovery in the Caspian Sea basin was …

[PDF][PDF] A revision of the extant species of Theodoxus (Gastropoda, Neritidae) in Asia, with the description of three new species

AF Sands, P Glöer, ME Gürlek, C Albrecht… - Zoosystematics and …, 2020 - zse.pensoft.net
Asia contains a high species diversity of the freshwater gastropod genus Theodoxus. Recent
molecular and morphological reviews of this diversity have uncovered a number of yet …

A review of species of the genus Theodoxus (Gastropoda: Neritidae) of the Ponto-Caspian region, with considerations on available type materials

VV Anistratenko, TY Sitnikova, PV Kijashko… - Ruthenica, Russian …, 2020 - biotaxa.org
An illustrated overview of the type series of nominal taxa of the gastropod genus Theodoxus
(Neritidae) inhabiting the Ponto-Caspian region is presented. It is made on the basis of a …

[PDF][PDF] Caspian invaders vs. Ponto-Caspian locals-range expansion of invasive macroinvertebrates from the Volga Basin results in high biological pollution of the …

MO Son, AA Prokin, PG Dubov… - … of Biological Invasions, 2020 - academia.edu
Until the 2000s, faunal exchange between endemic faunas of the Caspian Sea basin and
the Azov-Black Sea (aka Pontic) basin was asymmetrical, with fauna heading towards the …

Keyhole into a Lost World: The First Purely Freshwater Species of the Ponto-Caspian Genus Clathrocaspia (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

VV Anistratenko, DM Palatov, EM Chertoprud… - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
The species of the Ponto-Caspian gastropod genus Clathrocaspia Lindholm, 1930 have
been recorded so far from the Caspian Sea Basin only from marine waters, whereas they …

Ponticola hircaniaensis sp. nov., a new and critically endangered gobiid species (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the southern Caspian Sea basin.

F Zarei, HR Esmaeili, M Kovai, UK Schliewen, K Abbasi - Zootaxa, 2022 - europepmc.org
Ponticola hircaniaensis sp. nov. is described as a new gobiid species from the Kaboudval
Stream, southern Caspian Sea basin. The new species is diagnosed among Caspian Sea …