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- Title
Host specificity and phylogenetic relationships among Atlantic Ovulidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda).
- Authors
Reijnen, Bastian T.; Hoeksema, Bert W.; Gittenberger, Edmund
- Abstract
Ovulid gastropods and their octocoral hosts were collected along the leeward coast of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. New molecular data of Caribbean and a single Atlantic species were combined with comparable data of Indo-Pacific Ovulidae and a single East-Pacific species from GenBank. Based on two DNA markers, viz. CO-I and 16S, the phylogenetic relationships among all ovulid species of which these data are available are reconstructed. The provisional results suggest a dichotomy between the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific taxa. Fully grown Simnialena uniplicata closely resembles juvenile Cyphoma gibbosum conchologically. Cymbovula acicularis and C. baharnaensis might be synonyms. The assignments of Caribbean host species for Cyplioma gihhosum, C. signatum, Cymhovula acicularis and Simnialena uniplicata are revised.
- Subjects
MOLECULAR phylogeny; MOLECULAR biology; GENETIC markers; MOLLUSKS; GASTROPODA; OCTOCORALLIA; HOST-parasite relationships
- Publication
Contributions to Zoology, 2010, Vol 79, Issue 2, p69
- ISSN
1383-4517
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/18759866-07902002