Aleksandra Jaszczyńska, Sebastian Hofman, A. Falniowski
{"title":"Two invalid genera in the family Bythinellidae Locard, 1893 (Caenogastropoda: Truncatelloidea)","authors":"Aleksandra Jaszczyńska, Sebastian Hofman, A. Falniowski","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.009","url":null,"abstract":"Within the genus Bythinella Moquin-Tandon, 1856, with about 250 nominal species, the separation of several genera would be helpful in understanding the phylogenetic relationships between these snails, but neither morphology nor molecular loci studied so far can be used to distinguish any natural taxon over the range of species within this genus. Apart from Bythinella there are two other genera listed in the Bythinellidae by WoRMS: Terrestribythinella Sitnikova, Starobogatov et Anistratenko, 1992, and Strandzhia Georgiev et Glöer, 2013. Considering the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) sequences, as well as poor morphological data, Terrestribythinella should be considered a junior subjective synonym of Bythinella. In the case of Strandzhia, both COI and 18S sequences studied by us, as well as morphology re-examined (misinterpretation of the penis morphology in the original description) clearly show the assignment of Strandzhia to the genus Grossuana Radoman, 1983, thus Strandzhia becomes a junior objective synonym of Grossuana.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"12 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141117563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Germain Kapour Kieng Katsang, Cecilia Wangari Wambui, Ruben Schols, Joule Madinga Ntwan, P. M. Mulopo, Tine Huyse
{"title":"First record of an alien species of Amerianna Strand, 1928 (Gatropoda: Hygrophila: Planorbidae) in the Kimpese region, Democratic Republic of Congo","authors":"Germain Kapour Kieng Katsang, Cecilia Wangari Wambui, Ruben Schols, Joule Madinga Ntwan, P. M. Mulopo, Tine Huyse","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.010","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides the first case report of Amerianna species in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), first confirmed presence in Central Africa and the first molecular data from the African continent. The Amerianna species was found during a snail survey focused on schistosomiasis intermediate hosts. After sequence analysis of the partial cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) marker, three of these specimens were found to belong to the genus Amerianna. Combining morphological and molecular data, we tentatively identify the three specimens as Amerianna cf. carinata. This species is originally found in Australian freshwater bodies and was first detected in 1983 in several Nigerian man-made waterbodies. Therefore, special care should be taken when mapping Bulinus truncatus, the intermediate host for Schistosoma haematobium, as to not confuse both species as this might misguide snail control.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"94 13","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141116465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of the fountain bladder snail Physa fontinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Gastropoda: Hygrophila) in Morocco","authors":"Y. Mabrouki, F. Taybi, Peter Glöer","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.007","url":null,"abstract":"Alien and invasive species pose a significant threat to global biodiversity, causing costly economic and environmental damage. Recent field surveys in northern Morocco have led to the discovery of the fountain bladder snail Physa fontinalis (Linnaeus, 1758), providing the first evidence of its occurrence in North Africa. The exotic species is currently only known from one locality in Morocco, future surveys may reveal its presence elsewhere. It is essential to monitor its spread within invaded areas and conduct studies to improve our understanding of its biology, ecology, and potential impact on native communities in North African freshwaters.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"120 50","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140079418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent and subfossil malacofauna of Witkowe Rocks in the Jerzmanowice area (Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, Southern Poland)","authors":"W. P. Alexandrowicz, Paulina Laskowska","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.004","url":null,"abstract":"Malacological analysis was carried out on the deposits filling small karst forms within Witkowe Rocks in the southern part of the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland (Southern Poland). The study included six profiles and was supplemented by observations of the contemporary mollusc fauna inhabiting the area. Four types of subfossil faunal assemblages, characterised by different taxonomic composition and zoogeographic and ecological structures, were identified. The observed diversity of malacofauna indicates that the sediments filling the analysed forms accumulated in different climatic phases of the Holocene. In the oldest deposits, cold-loving taxa no longer found in the Upland were common. These sediments represent the Early Holocene or Late Glacial. The younger generation of fillings included an assemblage with shade-loving taxa with high thermal tolerance representing the Early Holocene. In the most recent fills, assemblages with composition and structure similar to contemporary malacocoenoses are present, varying depending on local environmental factors and corresponding to the period of the last few hundred years. No significant anthropogenic conversion of habitats was identified within Witkowe Rocks, and the observed diversity of malacofauna is due to natural factors operating at a local scale.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140414778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leonidas Maroulis, Danae Karakasi, Eleftherios Bitzilekis, Panagiotis Dalias, M. Mylonas, K. Vardinoyannis
{"title":"The terrestrial gastropods in three Dodecanese islands, Rhodes, Symi, Chalki (Aegean Sea, Greece)","authors":"Leonidas Maroulis, Danae Karakasi, Eleftherios Bitzilekis, Panagiotis Dalias, M. Mylonas, K. Vardinoyannis","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.001","url":null,"abstract":"Rhodes, Symi and Chalki are three islands with different characteristics in the southeastern part of the Aegean Sea. In this work, we present their complete land snail fauna based on recent survey, samples from the collections of the Natural History Museum of Crete and a thorough bibliographic review. We report 67 land snail species from Rhodes, 34 species from Symi, and 32 from Chalki, with 4, 20 and 9 new records for each island, respectively. Also, one species has been added to the malacofauna of Greece, while many names, which were mentioned mainly in the 19th century, have been clarified, synonymised or abolished from the lists of the islands. Our results once again demonstrate the importance of the reproductive system as a tool for reliable assessment of the taxonomy of Aegean land snails, and that sampling during the rainy season should be the preferred methodological approach for collecting land snails in the Greek islands.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139784932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leonidas Maroulis, Danae Karakasi, Eleftherios Bitzilekis, Panagiotis Dalias, M. Mylonas, K. Vardinoyannis
{"title":"The terrestrial gastropods in three Dodecanese islands, Rhodes, Symi, Chalki (Aegean Sea, Greece)","authors":"Leonidas Maroulis, Danae Karakasi, Eleftherios Bitzilekis, Panagiotis Dalias, M. Mylonas, K. Vardinoyannis","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.001","url":null,"abstract":"Rhodes, Symi and Chalki are three islands with different characteristics in the southeastern part of the Aegean Sea. In this work, we present their complete land snail fauna based on recent survey, samples from the collections of the Natural History Museum of Crete and a thorough bibliographic review. We report 67 land snail species from Rhodes, 34 species from Symi, and 32 from Chalki, with 4, 20 and 9 new records for each island, respectively. Also, one species has been added to the malacofauna of Greece, while many names, which were mentioned mainly in the 19th century, have been clarified, synonymised or abolished from the lists of the islands. Our results once again demonstrate the importance of the reproductive system as a tool for reliable assessment of the taxonomy of Aegean land snails, and that sampling during the rainy season should be the preferred methodological approach for collecting land snails in the Greek islands.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"53 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139844928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Jumping’ attack strikes by the predatory marine snail Agaronia propatula (Caenogastropoda: Olividae)","authors":"Benjamin F. Dattilo, Winfried S. Peters","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.002","url":null,"abstract":"The gastropod Agaronia propatula (Olividae) forages on the sandy beach intertidal of the central American Pacific coast. Agaronia resembles subtidal Oliva spp. morphologically and behaviourally. While both genera seize prey by rapid movements of the anterior foot, Agaronia sometimes performs ‘jumping’ attack strikes, bouncing onto its prey from above. During such strikes, the foot folds lengthwise, probably facilitating mechanical control of the erect body posture. We hypothesize that Agaronia’s behaviour may represent an adaptation to foraging on emerged tidal plains, where the medium (air) offers less mechanical resistance to rapid movements than the seawater in which subtidal Oliva species hunt.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"20 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139850132","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Jumping’ attack strikes by the predatory marine snail Agaronia propatula (Caenogastropoda: Olividae)","authors":"Benjamin F. Dattilo, Winfried S. Peters","doi":"10.12657/folmal.032.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.032.002","url":null,"abstract":"The gastropod Agaronia propatula (Olividae) forages on the sandy beach intertidal of the central American Pacific coast. Agaronia resembles subtidal Oliva spp. morphologically and behaviourally. While both genera seize prey by rapid movements of the anterior foot, Agaronia sometimes performs ‘jumping’ attack strikes, bouncing onto its prey from above. During such strikes, the foot folds lengthwise, probably facilitating mechanical control of the erect body posture. We hypothesize that Agaronia’s behaviour may represent an adaptation to foraging on emerged tidal plains, where the medium (air) offers less mechanical resistance to rapid movements than the seawater in which subtidal Oliva species hunt.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":" 37","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139790316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First record of invasive slug Krynickillus melanocephalus Kaleniczenko, 1851 (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Agriolimacidae) in Poland","authors":"Jarosław Maćkiewicz, Olsza Borys","doi":"10.12657/folmal.031.024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.031.024","url":null,"abstract":"During amateur nature observations in Kabaty Woods Nature Reserve in Warsaw, a slug of family Agriolimacidae was sighted. Photos with localisation tags have been submitted to iNaturalist website, where the algorithm suggested an identification of Krynickillus melanocephalus Kaleniczenko, 1851. Following specialists’ interests, three specimens were collected from the original location. Anatomical examination confirmed their identification. It is therefore the first documented record of K. melanocephalus in Poland.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"244 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138981254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paulo Roberto Fleury Fernandes De Oliveira, C. C. Rodrigues, M. Grano-Maldonado, Thiago L Rocha
{"title":"The golden mussel Limnoperna fortunei (Dunker, 1857) as an emerging concern for biodiversity in the Brazilian Cerrado","authors":"Paulo Roberto Fleury Fernandes De Oliveira, C. C. Rodrigues, M. Grano-Maldonado, Thiago L Rocha","doi":"10.12657/folmal.031.028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12657/folmal.031.028","url":null,"abstract":"The Cerrado biome is an international biodiversity hotspot, but knowledge about the distribution and impact of invasive bivalve species in the rivers of the Central Brazilian Cerrado is scarce. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to extend our knowledge of the geographical distribution of the golden mussel (Limnoperna fortunei) and enlarge the list of the invasive species that have arrived in the Cerrado environment. In this context, invasive mussels may affect native species, but there is little information on their environmental interaction. The study area was the low-middle Paranaíba River, located in and around the hydroelectric power plant of Cachoeira Dourada. In total, 386 specimens were captured and measured, and the reproductive status was defined through a histological approach. Results showed that the mussel shell length varied from 3.8 to 35.5 mm (215.73 ± 5.53 mm); width, from 1.9 to 14.1 mm (7.20 ± 2.24 mm); and height, from 1.4 to 11.8 mm (5.84 ± 2.00 mm). Hence, the populations discovered is likely to be in its third year, and the histological assessment showed that the mussels are reproducing actively. Results indicated that the process of invasion was enhanced by human activities, such as fish farming, considering that the golden mussel is an emerging bio-infestation concern, and it should be considered a serious threat to native species on the Brazilian Cerrado ecosystem. Further studies on cohabitation and interaction with native species are needed.","PeriodicalId":480483,"journal":{"name":"Folia Malacologica","volume":"32 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138592261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}