Exploration of phylogeography of Monacha cantiana s.l. continues: the populations of the Apuan Alps (NW Tuscany, Italy) (Eupulmonata, Stylommatophora, Hygromiidae)

Pieńkowska, Joanna R.; Manganelli, Giuseppe; Giusti, Folco; Barbato, Debora; Hallgass, Alessandro; Lesicki, Andrzej

doi:10.3897/zookeys.814.31583

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“…Undesirable smell and savor caused by mucous secretions left on plants during their movements, averts human and other animals from feedingon these contaminated plants (El-Deeb et al, 1999). The glassy clover snails (Monach cartusiana) were recorded extensively at vast geographic areas at the Mediterranean regions and Southeastern Europe (Pieńkowska, 2018: Pieńkowska et al, 2019. High population densities were discoveredinfesting various economic crops at Sharkia Governorate, Egypt (Lokma, 2013).…”

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Control of the glassy clover snails Monacha cartusiana using Zingiber officinale extract as an ecofriendly molluscicide

El-Atti

Elsheakh

Khalil

et al. 2019

African Journal of Biological Sciences

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High population densities of Monacha cartusiana were observed to cause perdition of various economic crops at Sharkia Governorate. The present study was carried out control this harmful pest using ethanolic Ginger extract as a natural and environmentally safe molluscicide.Toxicological tests revealed that low concentration (20%) of ethanolic Ginger extract caused 10 % mortalityof cloversnails after one day of exposure and 66.7% mortalityafter28 days. The highest mortality percentage (90 %) was recorded after 28 days of treatment with40% Ginger extract. Biochemical investigations showed thatLC 25 (7.04%) Ginger extract elevated ALT, AST, α & β esterases andphenoloxidase levels of treated snails compared to control.Histological inspections of the digestive gland and ovotestis of snails exposed to LC 25 Ginger extract revealed that the digestive tubules showedvarious tubularanomalies, inflammatory hemocytes infiltration, excessive luminal secretionsand appearanceof necrotic areas. Acini of ovotestis weredeformedand comprised misshapen eggs and distorted sperms.TEM investigations showed cellular malformations in the digestive gland of treated snails including; severely disrupted microvilli, ruptured cell membranes, fractured RER and mitochondrial pyknosis.

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Control of the glassy clover snails Monacha cartusiana using Zingiber officinale extract as an ecofriendly molluscicide

El-Atti

Elsheakh

Khalil

et al. 2019

African Journal of Biological Sciences

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“…Two final remarks: first, as we stated previously (Pieńkowska et al 2019), molecular data alone cannot be used in taxonomic research. Molecular analysis must be supported by morphological features (of shells and/or genital anatomy) before any decision is made about taxonomy or nomenclature.…”

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Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra)

Manganelli¹,

Barbato²,

Pieńkowska³

et al. 2019

Folia Malacol.

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A selection of 17 azecid species, including Azeca goodalli, Gomeziella girottii, Hypnocarnica micaelae, four species of Cryptazeca and ten species currently assigned to Hypnophila, chosen among those best known, were investigated to elucidate their relationships based on morphological and molecular evidence. Thirty one characters, only 15 of which were parsimony informative, were scored from morphology. Parsimony analysis was performed with PAUP* 4.0 using Cochlicopa lubrica as outgroup. Sequences of COI and ITS2 deposited in GenBank were reexamined using Cochlicopa lubrica as outgroup. Phylogeny based on the morphological characters suggested that Hypnophila as formerly conceived was a polyphyletic taxon with four different lineages: Gomeziella girottii (1); Hypnophila boissii (2); the Dalmatian Hypnophila species except H. zirjensis (3); the western Mediterranean species plus H. zirjensis (4). Unfortunately molecular studies did not include Gomeziella girottii and species of Dalmatian Hypnophila and this biases full comparison between the two data sets. Moreover our re-analysis of the previous molecular data produced a slightly different phylogenetic hypothesis compared to the original one. Indeed, the only ML tree of COI sequences confirmed with weak bootstrap supported the phylogenetic hypothesis that Hypnocarnica micaelae was the sister group to all the other azecids. On the contrary, the ML trees of ITS2 and of concatenated COI+ITS2 sequences found that Azeca goodalli was the sister group to all the other azecids, Cryptazeca was paraphyletic and Hypnocarnica micaelae was the sister group of Cryptazeca monodonta. Comparing the results of the two data sets, it emerged that phylogenetic analysis based on morphological characters had good resolution but very low statistical support and that the position of Hypnophila boissii was the most variable. In morphological phylogeny this species had unresolved relationships with Gomeziella girottii and a clade including Azeca goodalli and all other species currently assigned to Hypnophila, whereas in the molecular phylogeny it was nested in the western Hypnophila. The latter result is followed here assigning the species now included in Hypnophila to two distinct genera: Gomphroa comprising the western species plus Hypnophila zirjensis; Hypnophila including the Dalmatian species except Hypnophila zirjensis.

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“…On the contrary, the distinction between Gomphroa and Hypnophila is also supported by some shell and genital features (ManGanelli et al 2019). We have always stressed (Pieńkowska et al 2018(Pieńkowska et al , 2019) that molecular features alone are insufficient to make taxonomic conclusions but that they must be supported by morphological and anatomical features. Thus any taxonomic conclusion concerning the relationship between the genera Gomphroa and Hypnophila seems to be premature.…”

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New evidence on the relationships between Hypnophila Bourguignat, 1859 and Gomphroa Westerlund, 1902 (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Azecidae)

Manganelli¹,

Pieńkowska²,

Kosicka³

et al. 2020

Folia Malacol.

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analysis of nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial COI and nuclear 5.8S+ITS2+28S gene fragments was performed on newly obtained specimens of Hypnophila pupaeformis (Cantraine). The results partially agree with previous morphological (shell and genitalia) analysis. They support separateness of H. pupaeformis from all species assigned to Gomphroa, Cryptazeca, Hypnocarnica and Azeca. They also show close relationships of H. pupaeformis with the Gomphroa group. Indeed Hypnophila and Gomphroa form a clade consisting of four subclades: Hypnophila and three lineages named provisionally Gomphroa A, Gomphroa B and Gomphroa C. However, more research is needed to determine their relationships and to establish whether Hypnophila and Gomphroa are two genera or two (or even four) subgenera of one genus.

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Exploration of phylogeography of Monacha cantiana s.l. continues: the populations of the Apuan Alps (NW Tuscany, Italy) (Eupulmonata, Stylommatophora, Hygromiidae)

Cited by 8 publications

References 67 publications

Control of the glassy clover snails Monacha cartusiana using Zingiber officinale extract as an ecofriendly molluscicide

Control of the glassy clover snails Monacha cartusiana using Zingiber officinale extract as an ecofriendly molluscicide

Unravelling the tangle of the azecid land snails: a survey on the supraspecific systematics based on comparative morphology and molecular phylogeny (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Orthurethra)

New evidence on the relationships between Hypnophila Bourguignat, 1859 and Gomphroa Westerlund, 1902 (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Azecidae)

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