Freshwater gastropods from early voyages into the Indo-West Pacific: The ‘melaniids’ (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae) from the French ‘La Coquille ’ circumnavigation, 1822-1825

Mieniplotia scabra (Müller, 1774), another gastropod invasive species in Europe and the status of freshwater allochthonous molluscs in Greece and Europe

“…Even the systematic recognition at genus level is controversial; the species is often attributed to Thiara Röding, 1798, and, even recently, some authors are continuing to consider valid the attribution to this genus (Roll et al, 2009;GBIF, 2014); other authors (Mienis, 2012;Mienis & Rittner, 2013;Nasarat et al, 2014) place the species in the genus Pseudoplotia Forcart,1950; while Glaubrecht et al (2009), Glaubrecht & Podlaka (2010), Budha (2012) and Bogan (2012) place the species in the genus Plotia Röding, 1798. The generic attribution has been recently reviewed by Low & Tan (2014) that have established the new monospecific genus Mieniplotia, already adopted by Bouchet (2015).…”

“…More recent papers tend to consider the species in this area as cryptogenic (Cowie, 2000(Cowie, , 2002Glaubrecht et al, 2009) or invasive (Bogan, 2012;Budha, 2012). In particular, it has been recorded from Guam Island, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia (Kosrae, Pohnpei, Truk, Yap Islands), Papua New Guinea including Bismarck Archipelago (Manus, New Ireland, New Britain, Long Island), Solomon Islands (Guadalcanal, Malaita), Vanuatu (Espiritu Santo Island and Éfate Island), New Caledonia, Fiji Islands (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) and Samoa (Pace, 1973;Brandt, 1974;Starmühlner, 1976Starmühlner, , 1983Haynes, 1984;Starmühlner, 1984;Haynes, 1985Haynes, , 1990Haynes, , 1993Cowie, 2000;Haynes, 2000;Cowie, 2002;Glaubrecht et al, 2009;Glaubrecht & Podlaka, 2010;Prasad, 2010;Budha, 2012;GBIF, 2014).…”

The potential of biohistory: Re-discovering Adelbert von Chamisso's skull of an Aleut collected during the ”︁Rurik” Expedition 1815-1818 in Alaska

“…It has been suggested earlier that by this means we should make more use of the historical data on, for example, the early explorations by major scientific expeditions, which are relevant also in a biogeographical as well as evolutionary systematics approach; see e.g. Glaubrecht (2002), and for a case study Glaubrecht & Podlacha (2010). As will be exemplified here, retrieving data from museum collections in such a biohistorical approach also has the potential to contribute toward reconstructing and better understanding in the present case the native human population history.…”

A glimpse in the dark? A first phylogenetic approach in a widespread freshwater snail from tropical Asia and northern Australia (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae)

“…Melania aspera Lesson, 1831, which was originally described from New Guinea (Lesson 1830-1831), is such an "enigmatic" taxon ( Fig. 1), which Glaubrecht and Podlacha (2010) regarded as a possible senior synonym of the nominal species Melania rudis Lea & Lea, 1851. The latter taxon is usually regarded as belonging to Thiara Röding, 1798 and thought to be relatively widespread, being reported from several countries, occurring from India and Sri Lanka to Southeast Asia and the Indo-Australian archipelago (Schepman 1892(Schepman , 1915Rensch 1934;van Benthem Jutting 1937;Subba Rao 1989;Ramakrishna and Dey 2007;Budha 2010;Patil and Talmale 2011, see also Fig.…”