Towards Solving Darwin's “mystery”: Speciation and Radiation in Lacustrine and Riverine Freshwater Gastropods<sup>*</sup>

Glaubrecht, Matthias

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“…Its original native range seemed uncertain but nonetheless wide, including parts of Africa, the Mediterranean, Asia and the Pacific Islands (Pace 1973, Clench 1969. Glaubrecht (1996) hypothesized that its origin lies rather in Asia than Africa, given its natural occurrences and the history of Thiaridae; see also Glaubrecht et al (2009) andGlaubrecht (2011). It had also become established in several other countries.…”

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“…Many of the trematode infected freshwater snails are from the Cerithoidea, a large, essentially marine, group of caenogastropods with approximately 200 genera and with mainly pan-tropical distributions, which have been used also as model for evolutionary systematic studies (Glaubrecht 1996, 1999, 2000, 2011, Glaubrecht et al 2009). To focus on the family Thiaridae, this group represents, as became evident in recent studies (Glaubrecht 1996, 1999, 2011, Lydeard et al 2002, Strong et al 2008, 2011, one of the two (or three) independent invasions into and colonizations of freshwater habitats.…”

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“…To focus on the family Thiaridae, this group represents, as became evident in recent studies (Glaubrecht 1996, 1999, 2011, Lydeard et al 2002, Strong et al 2008, 2011, one of the two (or three) independent invasions into and colonizations of freshwater habitats. Mainly distributed in Southeast Asia, they are to be considered, together with the Pachychilidae as most significant intermediate hosts for infections in humans.…”

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Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

Krailas¹,

Namchote²,

Koonchornboon³

et al. 2014

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Larval stages of trematodes obtained from the freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae) as intermediate host were studied by using cercarial emergence and crushing snails. Between December 2004 and September 2009 snails from one hundred twenty locations in Thailand were collected every two months for one year at each sampling site. Counts per unit of time method was used in this study, and the samples of snails were collected every 10 minutes per sampling by five collectors. The cercarial stages were examined using shedding and crushing methods. The infection rate was found to be 18.79%, i.e. 6,019 animals infected in a total of 32,026. Nine different types in eighteen species of cercariae were categorized, viz. are (1) Parapleurophocercous

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Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

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Koonchornboon³

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“…Yamaguti 1975;Ito 1980;Upatham et al 1995;Dechruksa et al 2007;Ukong et al 2007;Ben-Ami & Heller 2008;Escobar et al 2009), as they are most suitable objects for a wide variety of systematic, biogeographical and evolutionary studies (e.g. Brandt 1974;Glaubrecht 1996Glaubrecht , 1999Glaubrecht , 2006Glaubrecht , 2009Glaubrecht , 2011Facon et al 2003Facon et al , 2005Facon et al , 2008Glaubrecht & Rintelen 2003;Glaubrecht & Kaehler 2004;Kaehler & Glaubrecht 2006;Glaubrecht et al 2009). …”

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“…For example, in face of the conchologically variable freshwater gastropods in general and thiarids in particular a plethora of species has been named, although they are known to be phenotypically polymorphic and to reproduce (at least mainly) parthenogenetically (see Glaubrecht 2009Glaubrecht , 2011. Even in regions with less taxonomical activity in the past than in Southeast Asia, this has led to overnaming and, thus, a considerable taxonomic redundancy of up to nearly 70 percent, as reported recently, for example, for Australian thiarids ).…”

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Evaluating the status and identity of ”︁Melania”jugicostisHanley & Theobald, 1876 - an enigmatic thiarid gastropod in Thailand (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)

2013

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Given the importance in tropical diseases caused by food-borne trematodes infecting humans, it is essential to understand the taxonomy and distribution of its first intermediate hosts, which are in Southeast Asia freshwater Cerithioidean gastropods such as the widely distributed Melanoides tuberculata. Next to the occurrence of this type species in Thailand there is a second, congeneric thiarid neglected and, therefore, remained enigmatic to date. Described as "Melania" jugicostis by Hanley & Theobald (1876) it was originally reported and only known from the type locality, "Tenasserim River" (i.e. Tanintharyi River) of Southeast Burma (today Myanmar), but later recorded also for Thailand based on shell morphology. In evaluating the status of this taxon, we here report on its geographical occurrence ranging from the Kanchanaburi Province to the southern most provinces in Thailand (anticipating that it might extend further south on the Malay Peninsula and even into Sumatra). Based on the more detailed study of material from five locations we provide conchological and anatomical evidence for the comparison with other thiarids, in particular the closely related Melanoides tuberculata and Pseudoplotia scabra. Interestingly, with respect to its reproductive mode we found in one population of M. jugicostis from Erawan waterfall, Kanchanaburi Province, the lack of any sign of a subhaemocoelic brood pouch otherwise typical for viviparous thiarids. This is discussed in context of climatic factors (e.g. seasonal changing precipitation), but anticipated to be caused by an unusually high infection rate of human intestinal trematodes. These parasites having infected 98 of 222 snails studied, resulting in an infection rate of 44.14 %, are assumed to be responsible for the sterility of the females in this particular population, in comparison with considerable lower infection rates in two other populations, viz. Raman waterfall (1.74 % in 5/288) and Klong Chalung (9.46 % in 7/74), respectively.

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More slug(gish) science: Another annotated catalogue on types of tropical pulmonate slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum Berlin

Glaubrecht

Zorn

2012

Zool. Reihe

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While the most fundamental question as to how many species inhabit the earth still remains to be one of the enigmatic aspects of biodiversity, it continues to be the challenge for systematists to cope with taxonomic redundancy. Synonymies, being in the past essentially produced due to the dominating typological approach to deal with morphological disparity and taxonomical diversity, are at the heart of this problem. Therefore, the type procedure established as nomenclatural practice has not lost its usefulness. Quite to the contrary, types as name‐bearing specimens deserve our full attention, more today than ever before. Supplementing a preceeding paper on a total of 43 extant types of mostly vaginulid and agriolimacid slugs originally described by the German zoologist Heinrich Simroth, we in this second catalogue compile information on other tropical slugs in the Malacozoological Collection of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. We here list a total of 36 slug types described by several other authors, with the majority being again Vaginulidae (n = 30). In addition, information on six types of slugs from three other families, viz. Limacidae (3), Urocyclidae (2), and Agriolimacidae (1), are given, following a brief account with biographic information on those collectors who have contributed the majority of this type collection of vaginulids and related slugs. We end with a brief discussion of the geographic occurrence of these taxa involved. (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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Towards Solving Darwin's “mystery”: Speciation and Radiation in Lacustrine and Riverine Freshwater Gastropods^*

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Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

Evaluating the status and identity of ”︁Melania”jugicostisHanley & Theobald, 1876 - an enigmatic thiarid gastropod in Thailand (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)

More slug(gish) science: Another annotated catalogue on types of tropical pulmonate slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum Berlin

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Towards Solving Darwin's “mystery”: Speciation and Radiation in Lacustrine and Riverine Freshwater Gastropods*

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Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

Trematodes obtained from the thiarid freshwater snail Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) as vector of human infections in Thailand

Evaluating the status and identity of ”︁Melania”jugicostisHanley & Theobald, 1876 - an enigmatic thiarid gastropod in Thailand (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)

More slug(gish) science: Another annotated catalogue on types of tropical pulmonate slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda) in the collection of the Natural History Museum Berlin

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