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Citation title: "Like a bat out of heaven: the phylogeny and diversity of the bat-winged slugs (Heterobranchia: Gastropteridae)".

Study name: "Like a bat out of heaven: the phylogeny and diversity of the bat-winged slugs (Heterobranchia: Gastropteridae)".

This study is part of submission 19544 (Status: Published).

Citation

Ong E.F., Hallas J.M., & Gosliner T.M. 2017. Like a bat out of heaven: the phylogeny and diversity of the bat-winged slugs (Heterobranchia: Gastropteridae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 180(4): 755?789.

Authors

• Ong E.F.
• Hallas J.M.
• Gosliner T.M.

Abstract

A molecular phylogeny is presented for 25 newly sequenced specimens of Gastropteridae. The present phylogeny was estimated by analyzing the nuclear fragment 28S and two mitochondrial fragments cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) and 16S using maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. The distinctness of eight new species of Gastropteridae is supported by the molecular phylogeny and by subsequent ABGD analysis. Morphological data also support the distinctness of these species. The following species are described here: Gastropteron minutum n. sp., Gastropteron multo n. sp., Sagaminopteron multimaculatum n. sp., Siphopteron vermiculum n. sp., Siphopteron flavolineatum n. sp., Siphopteron nakakatuwa n. sp., Siphopteron makisig n. sp., and Siphopteron dumbo n. sp. All of these species, spanning much of the phylogenetic tree of the Gastropteridae are found in a single, highly diverse region of the Philippines, the Verde Island Passage. These data support the hypothesis that this region supports high species richness and phyletic diversity. This study also supports strong correlation between morphological characters and the molecular phylogeny within species of Siphopteron. Molecular studies also indicate the distinctness of specimens of Siphopteron quadrispinosum from Hawaii and those from the western Pacific. Western Pacific specimens should be regarded as Siphopteron leah. Siphopteron pohnpei is transferred to Sagaminopteron based on the molecular phylogeny. Other species complexes indicating the presence of geographically separated cryptic species indicate that further detailed study of this group is warranted and that hidden diversity is likely to increase with additional study.

Keywords

biogeography, Cephalaspidea, coral reefs, Coral Triangle, cryptic species, molecular phylogeny, morphology

External links

• DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw018

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• Canonical resource URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S19544
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  		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref26099,
  	 author = {Elise F Ong and Joshua Mark Hallas and Terrence M.  Gosliner},
  	 title = {Like a bat out of heaven: the phylogeny and diversity of the bat-winged slugs (Heterobranchia: Gastropteridae)},
  	 year = {2017},
  	 keywords = {biogeography, Cephalaspidea, coral reefs, Coral Triangle, cryptic species, molecular phylogeny, morphology},
  	 doi = {10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw018},
  	 url = {http://},
  	 pmid = {},
  	 journal = {Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society},
  	 volume = {180},
  	 number = {4},
  	 pages = {755?789},
  	 abstract = {A molecular phylogeny is presented for 25 newly sequenced specimens of Gastropteridae. The present phylogeny was estimated by analyzing the nuclear fragment 28S and two mitochondrial fragments cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) and 16S using maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. The distinctness of eight new species of Gastropteridae is supported by the molecular phylogeny and by subsequent ABGD analysis. Morphological data also support the distinctness of these species. The following species are described here: Gastropteron minutum n. sp., Gastropteron multo n. sp., Sagaminopteron multimaculatum n. sp., Siphopteron vermiculum n. sp., Siphopteron flavolineatum n. sp., Siphopteron nakakatuwa n. sp., Siphopteron makisig n. sp., and Siphopteron dumbo n. sp. All of these species, spanning much of the phylogenetic tree of the Gastropteridae are found in a single, highly diverse region of the Philippines, the Verde Island Passage. These data support the hypothesis that this region supports high species richness and phyletic diversity. This study also supports strong correlation between morphological characters and the molecular phylogeny within species of Siphopteron. Molecular studies also indicate the distinctness of specimens of Siphopteron quadrispinosum from Hawaii and those from the western Pacific. Western Pacific specimens should be regarded as Siphopteron leah. Siphopteron pohnpei is transferred to Sagaminopteron based on the molecular phylogeny. Other species complexes indicating the presence of geographically separated cryptic species indicate that further detailed study of this group is warranted and that hidden diversity is likely to increase with additional study.}
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  AU  - Hallas,Joshua Mark
  AU  - Gosliner,Terrence M. 
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  KW  - Coral Triangle
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