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 …

The fossil record of freshwater Gastropoda–a global review

TA Neubauer - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gastropoda are an exceptionally successful group with a rich and diverse fossil record. They
have conquered land and freshwater habitats multiple times independently and have …

Shedding light on the timing of the largest Late Quaternary transgression of the Caspian Sea

EA Butuzova, RN Kurbanov, NA Taratunina… - Quaternary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Quaternary history of the Caspian Sea remains controversial. One of the
major disagreements in this debate concerns the stratigraphic correlation of various deposits …

[HTML][HTML] Multidisciplinary study of the Rybachya core in the North Caspian Sea during the Holocene

A Berdnikova, E Lysenko, R Makshaev, M Zenina… - Diversity, 2023 - mdpi.com
Mollusk fauna is an important component of the Caspian Sea ecosystem alongside
ostracods and diatoms. These faunal proxies are essential indicators of hydrological shifts …

Caspian Sea levels over the last 2200 years, with new data from the SE corner

SAG Leroy, PJ Reimer, HK Lahijani, AN Beni, E Sauer… - Geomorphology, 2022 - Elsevier
A revision of the data used to build the Caspian Sea level curve over the last 2200 years BP
has been made based on a combination of geological and archaeo-historical data, using …

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 …

First record of quagga mussel, Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897, in Italy: morphological and genetic evidence in Lake Garda

N Salmaso, F Ciutti, C Cappelletti… - BIOINVASIONS …, 2022 - openpub.fmach.it
Here, we report the first record of quagga mussel, Dreissena bugensis Andrusov, 1897, in
Italy. This mollusc is native of the Dnieper River drainage of Ukraine and is one of the most …

[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 …

Performance of 3D morphological methods in the machine learning assisted classification of closely related fossil bivalve species of the genus Dreissena

D Klinkenbuß, O Metz, J Reichert, T Hauffe… - Malacologia, 2020 - BioOne
In recent years, 3D analyses, new indices to describe the complexity of morphological
structures and sophisticated machine learning approaches have advanced morphometrical …

[HTML][HTML] A revision of the Pontocaspian gastropods of the subfamily Caspiinae (Caenogastropoda: Hydrobiidae)

VV Anistratenko, TA Neubauer, OY Anistratenko… - Zootaxa, 2021 - mapress.com
The Caspiinae comprise small gastropod species inhabiting low-salinity environments of the
Pontocaspian region, specifically the Caspian Sea and the limans, estuaries and lower river …