Vicariant versus dispersal processes in the settlement of Pseudamnicola (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae) in the Mediterranean Balearic Islands
Author
Delicado, Diana
Author
Machordom, Annie
Author
Ramos, Marian A.
text
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
2014
Zool. J. Linn. Soc.
2014-03-28
171
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38
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12124
journal article
10.1111/zoj.12124
0024-4082
5305349
9CD3D06C-7D15-4211-9613-D23A67F07938
SUBGENUS
PSEUDAMNICOLA
(
PSEUDAMNICOLA
) PAULUCCI, 1878
Type
species
Bithynia lucensis
Issel, 1866
(
Kennard & Woodward, 1926
), subsequent designation.
Diagnosis
Shell ovate-conic, slightly longer than wide and an aperture wider than long; female genitalia with pyriform bursa copulatrix and one elongate seminal receptacle; penis broadly triangular with the base expanded and many folds along its entire surface; penis with a dark patch of pigment, whose extension varies amongst species, from its middle region to the tip; nervous system generally elongate (
RPG
ratio from 0.50 to 0.67).
Composition
Six species in the Ibero-Balearic region: two in the Iberian Peninsula (one of which is also present on Ibiza Island), three on Majorca Island, and one on
Minorca Island
.