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- Title
Five new cryptic freshwater gastropod species from New Caledonia (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea, Tateidae).
- Authors
Haase, Martin; Zielske, Susan
- Abstract
During the course of a project aiming at the reconstruction of the colonization of the South Pacific islands by tateid gastropods based on molecular data we discovered five new species on New Caledonia belonging to the genera Hemistomia and Leiorhagium, respectively. We describe these species based on morphological, anatomical and genetic data. All five species are morphologically cryptic as they closely resemble or are even indistinguishable from known species stressing the importance of a comprehensive taxonomic approach integrating several methods. As a consequence of their small and fragmented geographic ranges and the rapidly progressing anthropogenic land cover changes on New Caledonia, all five species qualify as critically endangered according to the criteria of the IUCN.
- Subjects
NEW Caledonia; GASTROPODA; TAXONOMY; NEOGASTROPODA; INTERNATIONAL Union for Conservation of Nature &; Natural Resources
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2015, Issue 523, p63
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.523.6066