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;
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A-F;
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; the locality is already mentioned by
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as the finding place of an enigmatic “
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” which was not refound.
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DISTRIBUTON AND ECOLOGY. — In
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only at the southern tip of
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at La Trinité. Found only in a single spring together with representatives of the
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and the
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. The ecology of the closely related
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in Sardinia is described as follows: “Vive in ruscelli e torrenti, tra la vegetazione della riva o attaccata ai ciottoli del fondo. Alcune popolazioni si rinvengono in tazze sorgentizie (Monte dei Sette Fratelli, Sarrabus)” [Lives in brooks and torrents, between the vegetation of the borders or sticking on gravels of the ground. Some populations live in spring ponds (at Monte dei Sette Fratelli, Sarrabus)] (
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).
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Shape of shell broadly conical to slightly ovoid with rounded apex and convex sidelines; height
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] (n = 8); last whorl about 51.8% [47.2-56.1%] (n = 8) of total height of shell; umbilicated; shell colour transparent milky, shell surface usually with dark-brown or ochreous iron-manganese coating; 3.75-4.0 whorls, slightly swollen and convex, separated by a shallow suture; last whorl towards aperture neither ascending nor descending; aperture obliquely broad ovate, forming at the top a blunt and nearly rectangular angle; peristome continuous, usually touching the shell wall over a short and slightly convex bent distance; outer margin simple, basal margin and columellar edge faintly reflexed, columellar edge slightly thickened.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60AFF93FCC8A83E86DBB110" box="[813,958,1874,1899]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="249">Measurements</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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See
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.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE60AFF93FCC8A8DD86C4B1B0" blockId="22.[813,950,1969,2027]" box="[813,929,1969,1995]" pageId="22" pageNumber="249">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60AFF93FCC8A8DD86C4B1B0" box="[813,929,1969,1995]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="249">Operculum</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE60AFF93FCC8A8BD86D3B190" blockId="22.[813,950,1969,2027]" box="[813,950,2001,2027]" pageId="22" pageNumber="249">Pale reddish.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="4762368CE60BFF92FF61A8FF868AB192" blockId="23.[132,1457,1939,2025]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">
FIG. 13. —
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FF07A8FF84E4B1DE" box="[226,385,1939,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">Mercuria corsensis</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FE00A8FF875AB1DE" box="[485,575,1939,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">M. zopissa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="234C4B7DE60BFF92FDAFA8FF87A9B1DE" author="PAULUCCI M." box="[586,716,1939,1957]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250" refId="ref28065" refString="PAULUCCI M. 1882. - Note malacologiche sulla Fauna terrestre e fluviale dell'isola di Sardegna. Bullettino della Societa malacologica italiana 8 (1882) (2): 139 - 256, (3): 257 - 381; pls 1 - 9 [plates delivered with vol. 9 (1883)] [Separatum: Siena, Bargellini (1882): I-VII + 1 - 247, pls 1 - 9.] Available online at: https: // gdz. sub. uni-goettingen. de /" type="url" year="1882">Paulucci, 1882</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
:
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FD3CA8FF879CB1DE" bold="true" box="[729,761,1939,1957]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">A -F</emphasis>
,
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FCE0A8FF8615B1DE" box="[773,880,1939,1957]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">M. corsensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6E9A57E5E60BFF92FC92A8FF86CEB1DE" box="[887,939,1939,1957]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
; France, Corse, Bonifacio, Couvent de la Trinité (BOE 0916);
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FF61A8C585F4B1C0" bold="true" box="[132,145,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">A</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FF79A8C585CCB1C0" bold="true" box="[156,169,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">B</emphasis>
, shell probable ♀, frontal (
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FE60A8C584F7B1C0" bold="true" box="[389,402,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">A</emphasis>
) and lateral view (
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FDCCA8C58753B1C0" bold="true" box="[553,566,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">B</emphasis>
);
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FDA0A8C58736B1C0" bold="true" box="[581,595,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">C</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FDBBA8C58709B1C0" bold="true" box="[606,620,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">D</emphasis>
, ♂;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FD75A8C587FBB1C0" bold="true" box="[656,670,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">C</emphasis>
, shell;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FD3CA8C58782B1C0" bold="true" box="[729,743,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">D</emphasis>
, head with copulatory organ exposed through slit in mantle;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FB06A8C5818AB1C0" bold="true" box="[1251,1263,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">E</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FB1CA8C58061B1C0" bold="true" box="[1273,1284,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">F</emphasis>
, ♂;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FACDA8C58051B1C0" bold="true" box="[1320,1332,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">E</emphasis>
, shell;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FA95A8C5801EB1C0" bold="true" box="[1392,1403,1961,1979]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">F</emphasis>
, head with copulatory organ;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FEA5A8AC842BB1A9" bold="true" box="[320,334,1984,2002]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">G</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FEB2A8AC8400B1A9" bold="true" box="[343,357,1984,2002]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">H</emphasis>
,
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FE8BA8AC84A0B1A9" box="[366,453,1984,2002]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">M. zopissa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
; Italy,Sardinia,60 km NW Cagliari,label “Ruscello presso Grotta Su Mannau c/o Fluminimaggiore (Iglesiente)” (BOE 0893 ex Giusti): shell frontal (
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FEA3A8BB8431B192" bold="true" box="[326,340,2007,2025]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">G</emphasis>
) and lateral view (
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FE0FA8BB849DB192" bold="true" box="[490,504,2007,2025]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">H</emphasis>
). Abbreviations:
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FD61A8BB87FEB192" bold="true" box="[644,667,2007,2025]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">op</emphasis>
, operculum;
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE60BFF92FCEDA8BB867BB192" bold="true" box="[776,798,2007,2025]" pageId="23" pageNumber="250">pe</emphasis>
, penis. Scale bar: 1 mm.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AFBB85B7B68A" blockId="24.[132,778,215,337]" box="[132,210,215,241]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF61AFBB85B7B68A" box="[132,210,215,241]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Animal</emphasis>
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AF9B8445B72A" blockId="24.[132,778,215,337]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF61AF9B8412B76A" bold="true" box="[132,375,247,273]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">External characters.</emphasis>
Pallial tentacle not seen. Mantle strongly blackish pigmented. Ctenidium with 23 to 24 gill filaments.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AE1B84CFB78B" blockId="24.[132,777,375,497]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF61AE1B84EEB7EA" bold="true" box="[132,395,375,401]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Male copulatory organ.</emphasis>
Penis short but slender and rather whip-like, not extending beyond the elliptical appendix or only slightly longer. Penis blackish pigmented, appendix merely at its branching off.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AD7A875CB44B" blockId="24.[132,569,534,561]" box="[132,569,534,561]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF61AD7A84F5B44B" bold="true" box="[132,400,534,560]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">The female genital tract.</emphasis>
Not examined.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AD3A84D5B415" blockId="24.[131,777,598,1198]" box="[132,432,598,624]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">DIFFERENTIATING FEATURES</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61AD1A8453B2D5" blockId="24.[131,777,598,1198]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">
Compared to shells of the Sardinian
<taxonomicName id="80DD4D0FE604FF9DFDFAAD1B85ADB4CB" authority="(Paulucci, 1882)" baseAuthorityName="Paulucci" baseAuthorityYear="1882" class="Gastropoda" family="Hydrobiidae" genus="Mercuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="zopissa">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFDFAAD1B87F5B4EB" box="[543,656,631,656]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="234C4B7DE604FF9DFD7AAD1A85DAB4CB" author="PAULUCCI M." pageId="24" pageNumber="251" refId="ref28065" refString="PAULUCCI M. 1882. - Note malacologiche sulla Fauna terrestre e fluviale dell'isola di Sardegna. Bullettino della Societa malacologica italiana 8 (1882) (2): 139 - 256, (3): 257 - 381; pls 1 - 9 [plates delivered with vol. 9 (1883)] [Separatum: Siena, Bargellini (1882): I-VII + 1 - 247, pls 1 - 9.] Available online at: https: // gdz. sub. uni-goettingen. de /" type="url" year="1882">Paulucci, 1882</bibRefCitation>
)
</taxonomicName>
(
<figureCitation id="DFE62A09E604FF9DFF33ADFA8441B4CB" box="[214,292,662,688]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="21.[131,142,1871,1889]" captionTargetBox="[132,1455,216,1814]" captionTargetId="figure-17@21.[132,1455,215,1840]" captionTargetPageId="21" captionText="FIG. 11. — A-C, Mercuria meridionalis (Risso, 1826), France, Var, Foux de Draguignan, leg. Boeters 27.IX.1969, BOE 2414 ex 0261 (A, B); BOE 2151 ex 0261 (C); A, ♀; B, ♂; C, ♂, pallial tentacle, copulatory organ and pedal lobe clearly to be seen; D, E, Mercuria sp., presumable topotypes of Bithinia [sic] moutonii Dupuy, 1849; D, France, Alpes-Maritimes, Cannes (i.e. Mandelieu-la-Napoule [Népoule sensu Dupuy]), ♀ (MNHN-LOC); E, France, Var, Grasse (MNHN-JOU); F, Mercuria corsensis n. sp. France, Corse-du-Sud, Bonifacio, Couvent de la Trinité, leg Boeters IX.1979 (holotype MNHN-IM-2000-31951 ex BOE 0916); G-H, Mercuria zopissa (Paulucci, 1882), Italy, Sardinia, Monte dei Sette Fratelli, leg Giusti, Topotypes ex SMF 252038/7; G, globular shell; H, slender shell; I-J, Pseudamnicola emiliana (Paladilhe 1869); I, Neotype ex Topotype; France, Hérault, ruisseau [deaux douces] près de Balaruc (MNHN-IM-2000-32541 ex de Folin); J, de Folins label [“determ. par Paladilhe”, handwriting de Folin]. Scale bars: A, B, D-I, 3 mm; C, 1 mm." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5154189" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/5154189/files/figure.png" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
G-H;
<figureCitation id="DFE62A09E604FF9DFE8FADFA84D3B4CB" box="[362,438,662,688]" captionStart="FIG" captionStartId="23.[132,143,1939,1957]" captionText="FIG. 13. — Mercuria corsensis n. sp. and M. zopissa (Paulucci, 1882): A-F, M. corsensis n. sp.; France, Corse, Bonifacio, Couvent de la Trinité (BOE 0916); A, B, shell probable ♀, frontal (A) and lateral view (B); C, D, ♂; C, shell; D, head with copulatory organ exposed through slit in mantle; E, F, ♂; E, shell; F, head with copulatory organ; G, H, M. zopissa; Italy,Sardinia,60 km NW Cagliari,label “Ruscello presso Grotta Su Mannau c/o Fluminimaggiore (Iglesiente)” (BOE 0893 ex Giusti): shell frontal (G) and lateral view (H). Abbreviations: op, operculum; pe, penis. Scale bar: 1 mm." pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Fig. 13</figureCitation>
G-H) the shells of
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFD6DADFA8662B4D4" box="[648,775,662,687]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. corsensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6E9A57E5E604FF9DFF61ADDA85A1B4AB" box="[132,196,694,720]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
with a heigth of
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[
<quantity id="80259B69E604FF9DFDEEADD987D2B4AB" box="[523,695,693,720]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="3.175" metricValueMax="3.5" metricValueMin="2.85" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" unit="mm" value="3.175" valueMax="3.5" valueMin="2.85">2.85-3.50 mm</quantity>
] and a diameter of
<quantity id="80259B69E604FF9DFEEBADBA8410B48B" box="[270,373,726,752]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.2" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" unit="mm" value="2.2">2.20 mm</quantity>
[
<quantity id="80259B69E604FF9DFE61ADB98748B48B" box="[388,557,725,752]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.175" metricValueMax="2.3" metricValueMin="2.05" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" unit="mm" value="2.175" valueMax="2.3" valueMin="2.05">2.05-2.30 mm</quantity>
] (n = 8) are slightly larger and more ovate, which is reflected by a ratio of height of aperture to total height of
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFDEBAC7A8745B554" box="[526,544,790,815]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">c.</emphasis>
52% instead of 42% (females) and 44% (males)in
<taxonomicName id="80DD4D0FE604FF9DFE28AC5A8758B534" baseAuthorityName="Paulucci" baseAuthorityYear="1882" box="[461,573,822,847]" class="Gastropoda" family="Hydrobiidae" genus="Mercuria" kingdom="Animalia" order="Littorinimorpha" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" phylum="Mollusca" rank="species" species="zopissa">
<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFE28AC5A8758B534" box="[461,573,822,847]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
. For example, the shell of a male of
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFEB3AC3A84BCB514" box="[342,473,854,879]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. corsensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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showed the following measurements: height
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, diameter
<quantity id="80259B69E604FF9DFD78AC198663B5F4" box="[669,774,885,912]" metricMagnitude="-3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="2.05" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" unit="mm" value="2.05">2.05 mm</quantity>
and height of aperture to total height of 51.6%. Further, whereas in
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFEEEACD984F4B5B5" box="[267,401,949,974]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. corsensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<taxonomicNameLabel id="6E9A57E5E604FF9DFE7FACD984BEB5B4" box="[410,475,949,975]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" rank="species">n. sp.</taxonomicNameLabel>
the last whorl before the aperture neither descends nor ascends, in
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFD8CACB987B9B595" box="[617,732,981,1006]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
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the last whorl often descends clearly immediately before the aperture, as can be deduced, for example, even from the frontal view in
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character which discriminates
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF61AB398423B215" box="[132,326,1109,1134]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Mercuria corsensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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as well as
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFE1DAB39870DB215" box="[504,616,1109,1134]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
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from all other
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species
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is the shallow suture in combination with the ovate shape.
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<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFF61ABB8858DB297" blockId="24.[130,777,1236,2028]" box="[132,232,1236,1262]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">REMARKS</paragraph>
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The new species has been considered by
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Falkner
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(2002: 79)
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as conspecific with
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFE75AA788726B356" box="[400,579,1300,1325]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Mercuria zopissa</emphasis>
(
<bibRefCitation id="234C4B7DE604FF9DFDB1AA7F879AB355" author="PAULUCCI M." box="[596,767,1299,1326]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251" refId="ref28065" refString="PAULUCCI M. 1882. - Note malacologiche sulla Fauna terrestre e fluviale dell'isola di Sardegna. Bullettino della Societa malacologica italiana 8 (1882) (2): 139 - 256, (3): 257 - 381; pls 1 - 9 [plates delivered with vol. 9 (1883)] [Separatum: Siena, Bargellini (1882): I-VII + 1 - 247, pls 1 - 9.] Available online at: https: // gdz. sub. uni-goettingen. de /" type="url" year="1882">Paulucci, 1882</bibRefCitation>
)
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from Sardinia, but a new evaluation of its characters led us to acknowledge it as a distinct species. Judging from the nevertheless existing striking morphological similarities,
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF63AAF8859EB3D6" box="[134,251,1428,1453]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFED0AAF884D2B3D6" box="[309,439,1428,1453]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. corsensis</emphasis>
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must be considered as closely related sister species. This means they form a group which is differentiated with a significant gap against all other
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF67AA9F8583B077" box="[130,230,1523,1548]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">Mercuria</emphasis>
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-species of
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and
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. As they are exclusively confined to
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and Sardinia it can be assumed that their evolution is correlated to the well known Tertiary plate tectonics and the complex palaeogeographic history of the two islands (as for example outlined with instructive maps in de
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). They must share a common ancestral species which lived on the Corso-Sardinan microplate when it became separated from the South European continental margin. As the distance between the northernmost occurrences of
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFE24A87E8749B150" box="[449,556,1810,1835]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. zopissa</emphasis>
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and the
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locality of
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<emphasis id="75A9EA9EE604FF9DFF47A85E8444B130" box="[162,289,1842,1867]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">M. corsensis</emphasis>
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is about
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, the split of the two sister species must predate the younger pleistocene glaciation cycles, otherwise the large gap in the distribution areas can not be explained. In all circumstances todays occurrences of both species must be considered as relicts of former larger distribution areas on both islands.
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<paragraph id="4762368CE604FF9DFCC8AFBB8692B76A" blockId="24.[813,1415,215,273]" pageId="24" pageNumber="251">TAXA UNCERTAIN, INSUFFICIENTLY KNOWN OR CONFUSED</paragraph>
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