Decline of unique Pontocaspian biodiversity in the Black Sea Basin: A review

A Gogaladze, MO Son, M Lattuada… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The unique aquatic Pontocaspian (PC) biota of the Black Sea Basin (BSB) is in decline. The
lack of detailed knowledge on the status and trends of species, populations, and …

Morphology and taxonomic assessment of eight genetic clades of Mercuria Boeters, 1971 (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae), with the description of five new species

JP Miller, D Delicado… - European …, 2023 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
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 …

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 …

Hidden species diversity of Corrosella Boeters, 1970 (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea) in the Moroccan Atlas reveals the ancient biogeographic link between …

K Boulaassafer, M Ghamizi, A Machordom… - Organisms Diversity & …, 2021 - Springer
Despite the high species richness of freshwater gastropods in the western Mediterranean,
the evolutionary patterns of the North African taxa are poorly understood. In a recent survey …

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 …

Old lake versus young taxa: a comparative phylogeographic perspective on the evolution of Caspian Sea gastropods (Neritidae: Theodoxus)

AF Sands, TA Neubauer, S Nasibi… - Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Caspian Sea has been a highly dynamic environment throughout the Quaternary and
witnessed major oscillations in lake level, which were associated with changes in salinity …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent founder-event speciation across the Mediterranean likely shaped the species diversity and geographic distribution of the freshwater snail genus …

JP Miller, D Delicado, F García-Guerrero… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Dispersal is known to play an important role in shaping the diversity and geographic range
of freshwater gastropods. Here, we used phylogenetic methods to test for the influence of …

[HTML][HTML] Mollusc biodiversity in late Holocene nearshore environments of the Caspian Sea: A baseline for the current biodiversity crisis

S van de Velde, FP Wesselingh, TA Yanina… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Caspian Sea is an evolutionary island whose rich and endemic fauna have
evolved in partial isolation over the past two million years. Baseline studies of pre-20 th …