Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

Methodological and biological considerations are intertwined when studying cryptic species.
A potentially large component of modern biodiversity, the frequency of cryptic species …

Understanding the mechanisms which determine the capacity of any species to adapt to
changing environmental conditions is one of the foremost requirements in accurately …

Abstract Aim The Antarctic Circumpolar Current imparts significant structure to the Southern
Ocean biota. The Antarctic Polar Front is a major barrier to dispersal, with separate species …

Current knowledge about the performance of floating seaweeds as dispersal vectors comes
mostly from mid latitudes (30–40), but phylogeographic studies suggest that long-distance …

Abstract The Southern Ocean (SO) is among the regions on Earth that are undergoing
regionally the fastest environmental changes. The unique ecological features of its marine …

Aims Some biogeographical regions act primarily as donors of colonists to other regions,
while others act predominantly as recipient areas. How some biotas become dominant while …

The marine gastropod genus Laevilitorina is exclusive to the Southern Hemisphere, with 21
species from southern South America, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand, and sub-Antarctic …

Members of the trochoidean genus Margarella (Calliostomatidae) are broadly distributed
across Antarctic and sub-Antarctic ecosystems. Here we used novel mitochondrial and …

The species of the genus Aequiyoldia Soot-Ryen, 1951, previously known as Yoldia, are
common, soft-substratum, sareptid bivalves. In the Southern Ocean, Aequiyoldia eightsii …