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Citation for Study 25309

About Citation title: "Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis in Eastern Europe".
About Study name: "Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis in Eastern Europe".
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Citation

Balashov I.A., Neiber M.T., & Hausdorf B. 2020. Phylogeny, species delimitation and population structure of the steppe inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis in Eastern Europe. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, .

Authors

  • Balashov I.A.
  • Neiber M.T.
  • Hausdorf B.

Abstract

We studied the steppe inhabiting land snail genus Helicopsis (Gastropoda: Geomitridae, Helicellinae) in Eastern Europe using mitochondrial 16S rDNA sequences and nuclear AFLP markers and compared the biogeographical patterns with those of other steppe inhabiting organisms. The subdivision of Central and Eastern European Helicopsis reflects the geographical subdivision of the European steppe belt in Pontic, Pannonian and Northern steppes. The subdivision within Helicopsis is deeper, at the species level, than in most other steppe inhabiting groups. The Helicopsis populations from the Pontic steppes can be classified into two sister species. Helicopsis lunulata includes mainly populations with depressed conical shells previously identified as H. striata, but also populations with disc-like shells previously identified as H. instabilis. The species is distributed mainly west of the Dnieper River. Most Helicopsis populations from east of the Dnieper, especially from Crimea, belong to the very variable H. filimargo that includes also H. gasprensis, H. retowskii, H. arenosa, H. luganica, H. martynovi and H. subfilimargo. The species inhabiting the Pannonian Basin and the Northern steppes formed a well-supported monophylum including H. hungarica in the Pannonian Basin, H. austriaca at the fringe of the East Alps and H. striata mainly in the Northern steppes.

Keywords

Biogeography, Geomitridae, Helicoidea, Romania, Ukraine, Russia

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