We review the diversity of freshwater organisms in the Mediterranean Basin (hereafter Med),
particularly from streams and rivers. We present available information on the richness …

Background The major islands of the Western Mediterranean--Corsica, Sardinia, and the
Balearic Islands--are continental terrenes that drifted towards their present day location …

Our comprehension of the phylogeny and diversity of most inland–water crustaceans is
currently hampered by their pronounced morphological bradytely, which contributed to the …

Deciphering the timing of lineage diversification and extinction has greatly benefited in the
last decade from methodological developments in fossil-based analyses. If these advances …

Zwicknia Murányi, gen. n. is erected for the Capnia bifrons species group sensu Zhiltzova,
2001 with the description of three new species based on morphology, mating call, and the …

Background The hemi-metabolous aquatic order Plecoptera (stoneflies) constitutes an
indispensable part of terrestrial and aquatic food webs due to their specific life cycle and …

Aim We infer the evolutionary history of the land snail genus Allognathus from a molecular
phylogeny. An approximate temporal framework for its colonization of the Balearic Islands …

Archaeolacerta bedriagae is a rock-dwelling lizard endemic to the Corso-Sardinian insular
system. We investigated the phylogeography of the species by using the mitochondrial ND4 …

Molecular phylogenies of extant species are considered effective tools to infer mechanisms
of speciation. Here, we benefit from this utility to investigate the evolutionary history of an …

The Mediterranean Sea comprises a wide array of insular systems. Sardinia and Corsica are
respectively the second and forth-largest islands of the Mediterranean Sea and they are …