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{"title":"Evolutionary history of New World crakes (Aves: Rallidae) with emphasis on the tribe Laterallini","authors":"Emiliano A. Depino, J. Pérez‐Emán, Elisa Bonaccorso, J. I. Areta","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12595","url":null,"abstract":"New World crakes are intriguing, poorly known birds with cursorial cryptic habits; they belong to two unrelated tribes: Laterallini and Pardirallini. Recent genetic studies contributed to the phylogenetic knowledge of these tribes, but a complete phylogenetic reconstruction is still missing. Here, we present the most taxonomically complete dated gene‐based phylogeny of New World crakes, with an emphasis on the Laterallini, including for the first time sequences of Coturnicops notatus, Laterallus levraudi, L. jamaicensis tuerosi and L. xenopterus. We used multilocus (mtDNA + nucDNA) phylogenetic analyses and interpreted our results in light of the natural history of the group. Our novel results show that: (1) L. xenopterus is sister to L. leucopyrrhus; (2) L. j. tuerosi is sister to L. spilonota; (3) C. notatus is sister to the clade that groups the remaining New World black crakes (L. jamaicensis, L. j. tuerosi, L. rogersi, L. spilonota and L. spilopterus); and (4) L. levraudi and L. melanophaius conform a recently diverged clade. Thus, our results indicate polyphyly in this group, particularly for Laterallus and, for the first time, for Coturnicops. We show that some discrepancies with previous studies stem from misidentified samples or sequences of L. leucopyrrhus and Anurolimnas fasciatus. Finally, we provide new preliminary insights into species limits of some taxa, specifically for L. levraudi, L. melanophaius and L. j. tuerosi. Our results set the stage for integrative taxonomic assessments at the generic level in the Laterallini by incorporating phylogenetic (gene‐based) and natural history data.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49277155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":" ","authors":"Lutz Bachmann, Per G. P. Ericson, Hege Vårdal","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12594","url":null,"abstract":"Zoologica ScriptaVolume 52, Issue 3 p. 185-186 EDITORIAL Lutz Bachmann, Corresponding Author Lutz Bachmann [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-7451-2074 Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Correspondence Lutz Bachmann, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorPer G. P. Ericson, Per G. P. Ericson orcid.org/0000-0002-4143-9998 The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SwedenSearch for more papers by this authorHege Vårdal, Hege Vårdal orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-6177 The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SwedenSearch for more papers by this author Lutz Bachmann, Corresponding Author Lutz Bachmann [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-7451-2074 Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Correspondence Lutz Bachmann, Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, PO Box 1172 Blindern, 0318 Oslo, Norway. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorPer G. P. Ericson, Per G. P. Ericson orcid.org/0000-0002-4143-9998 The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SwedenSearch for more papers by this authorHege Vårdal, Hege Vårdal orcid.org/0000-0001-8711-6177 The Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, SwedenSearch for more papers by this author First published: 03 April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12594Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume52, Issue3May 2023Pages 185-186 RelatedInformation","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135418054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions: Proceedings of the Zoologica Scripta Symposium, Oslo, Norway, 25 August 2022","authors":"L. Bachmann, J. Beermann, T. Brey, H. D. de Boer, J. Dannheim, B. Edvardsen, P. Ericson, K. Holston, Veronika A. Johansson, Paul Kloss, Rebecca Konijnenberg, Karen J. Osborn, P. Pappalardo, H. Pehlke, D. Piepenburg, Torsten H. Struck, P. Sundberg, Stine S. Markussen, K. Teschke, M. Vanhove","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12593","url":null,"abstract":"On 25 August 2022, the Zoologica Scripta ‐ An International Journal of Systematic Zoology and the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters arranged a symposium entitled ‘The role of systematics for understanding ecosystem functions’ in the Academy's premises in Oslo, Norway. The symposium aimed at offering a forum for exploring and discussing trends and future developments in the field of systematics. Eleven international experts contributed expertise on various issues related to global challenges, such as biodiversity assessments, databases, cutting‐edge analysis tools, and the consequences of the taxonomic impediment. Here, we compiled a multi‐author proceedings paper of the symposium contributions that are arranged in chapters and presents the content and the key conclusions of the majority of the presentations.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49064082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrative approach resolves the systematics of barred wolf snakes in the Lycodon striatus complex (Reptilia, Colubridae)","authors":"A. A. T. Amarasinghe, Rafaqat Masroor, H. Lalremsanga, Sanjaya Weerakkody, N. Ananjeva, Patrick D. Campbell, Stevie R. Kennedy‐Gold, Sanjaya K. Bandara, Andrey M. Bragin, Atthanagoda K. A. Gayan, Vivek R. Sharma, Amit Sayyed, L. Biakzuala, Andradige S. Kanishka, S. R. Ganesh, I. Ineich, A. de Silva, L. Wickramasinghe, S. Seneviratne, N. Poyarkov, G. Vogel, D. Jablonski","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12587","url":null,"abstract":"We reviewed the systematics of Lycodon striatus (Shaw, 1802), including all available name‐bearing types of its synonyms after evaluating phylogeographic (genetics), morphological (morphometry, meristic, and hemipenes), osteological and distribution evidence. Lycodon striatus sensu lato is widely distributed throughout South and Central Asia and mimics elapids. Based on phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial DNA, we demonstrate that populations from (i) eastern and central Peninsular India plus Sri Lanka and (ii) south‐western parts of Central Asia form two different clades representing two distinct species: L. striatus sensu stricto and L. bicolor comb. nov. respectively. These two clades are sisters to L. deccanensis (in the case of L. striatus) and L. jara (in the case of L. bicolor) and together form two main sister radiations. Although the external morphological variability is high in both species, the genetic variability is higher only in L. striatus but not distinct enough to represent more than one species if using the phylogenetic or biological species concept. The phylogeny of the L. aulicus group hints at Sri Lankan L. striatus, likely having evolved in continental Asia through a probable overland dispersal across the Bay of Bengal (present Palk Strait) into Sri Lanka. This dispersal may have been facilitated by low sea levels during the Pleistocene glaciations when Sri Lanka was connected to mainland India. After considering genetic divergence (with a p‐distance of 1.8%–2.1% in the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene) and morphological evidence, we synonymize the Sri Lankan subspecies, L. s. sinhaleyus Deraniyagala, 1955, with L. striatus sensu stricto. The eastern and central Indian L. striatus (i.e. L. striatus sensu stricto) is morphologically distinct and deeply divergent genetically compared to Tajik and Pakistani L. bicolor with a p‐distance of 13.6% in cytochrome b gene (mtDNA). Interestingly, L. bicolor is conspecific (p‐distance 1.4%) with L. mackinnoni, a western Himalayan endemic, and it reveals intraspecific clinal variation.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44991662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"On the end of evolution – Humankind and the annihilation of species","authors":"M. Glaubrecht","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12592","url":null,"abstract":"For too long and with ever‐increasing ferocity during the past decades of an exponentially growing human world population, humankind has been waging a genuine war against nature, of which we ourselves are nevertheless also a part. We are plundering the unique biological treasure, the diversity of species, without which the ecosystems we rely on for our food, our water and so much more would not function. At present, we are already in the midst of a massive decline of populations and species, with a significantly higher extinction rate than the long‐term average. Driven essentially by habitat loss and degradation, direct exploitation through legal and illegal hunting and fishing as well as pesticides and pollution, within decades, 1 million species out of a total of 8 million could go extinct. Alongside climate change, this dramatic decay of biodiversity, that involves also the subsequent loss of ecosystem services, here termed ‘the end of evolution’, is another and by no means lesser threat to humanity. We can still take countermeasures, but we must transform our economy and change our way of living. As most successful strategy the protection of up to 30% of Earth's surface by 2030 was suggested, ideally based on the implementation of a consistent framework of global ecosystems, as it was agreed on by the December 2022 United Nations Conference of Parties (COP15) Montreal meeting for the Conservation on Biological Diversity.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42318852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Insights into the systematics of Alluaudinella and allied Aethiopomyia and Ochromusca (Muscidae, Diptera)","authors":"K. Walczak, T. Pape, M. Ekanem, K. Szpila, A. Grzywacz","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12584","url":null,"abstract":"The muscid genera Alluaudinella Giglio‐Tos, 1895, Aethiopomyia Malloch, 1921 and Ochromusca Malloch, 1927 form a monophyletic group supported by immature and adult morphology and a highly specialised snail‐feeding strategy of immature stages. In contrast to the undoubted monophyly of the Alluaudinella‐Aethiopomyia‐Ochromusca clade, previous studies have provided contradictory hypotheses of the subfamiliar position within the Muscidae, and these three genera have been placed in the subfamily Muscinae, Dichaetomyiinae, Phaoniinae and Reinwardtiinae. The systematic position of Alluaudinella, as a representative of Alluaudinella, Aethiopomyia and Ochromusca group, is revised by means of larval morphology, biology and molecular data. Light microscopy (LM), confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are used to study the egg and all larval instars of Alluaudinella flavicornis (Macquart, 1855) and a multilocus Sanger sequencing (mS‐seq) approach to examine position within Muscidae. Results are inconsistent with the traditional, morphology‐based concept of the Alluaudinella‐Aethiopomyia‐Ochromusca clade as closely related to Dichaetomyia Malloch, 1921, and the phylogenetic analysis revealed no support for inclusion within subfamily Phaoniinae. Larval morphology in Alluaudinella differs significantly from that of Dichaetomyia (and other Phaoniinae), but resembles that of genera nested in Reinwardtiinae. Based on molecular data and larval morphology a transfer of Alluaudinella, Aethiopomyia and Ochromusca to the subfamily Reinwardtiinae is proposed.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45055180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The wealth of shared resources: Improving molecular taxonomy using eDNA and public databases","authors":"James F. Fleming","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12591","url":null,"abstract":"Public databases such as the NCBI's GenBank have been used as repositories for genomic studies for more than 30 years. In this time, our understanding of the natural world, and especially the genomic world, has expanded vastly, and the size of these databases represent this genomic revolution. Databases like GenBank now help populate many molecular studies, supplementing a researcher's newly gathered data with publicly available sequences. Despite this, older sequence records, particularly those from understudied taxa, are frequently not updated in line with this burgeoning understanding, and this means that analyses that leverage this public data – from BLAST through to phylogenetic analyses – cannot do so with the full force of its collective understanding. This is particularly true for environmental DNA (eDNA) records, where older sequence records may identify sequences only to the phylum level, limiting their use in many studies. Here, with a case study of tardigrade 18S sequences, the family identities of 630 sequences, previously only identified to the phylum level, were established using 501 family, genus and species level 18S sequences, effectively doubling the depth and taxonomic resolution of tardigrade 18S sequences in GenBank.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49533022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Comparative phylogeography and integrative systematic revision of Iberian endemic earthworms (Crassiclitellata, Lumbricidae)","authors":"Sergio Jiménez Pinadero, D. F. Marchán, A. Navarro, N. Tilikj, M. Novo, J. Domínguez, Darío J. Díaz Cosín, D. Trigo","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12586","url":null,"abstract":"The Iberian Peninsula and south‐western France have been postulated as centres of diversification of a wide variety of endemic earthworm species and genera within the Lumbricidae family. However, the phylogenetic position and identity of some of these endemisms is still uncertain and their phylogeographic patterns totally unknown. In the present study, phylogenetic analyses were carried out with the molecular markers COI, 16S, 28S, ND1 and 12S to clarify the phylogenetic position of the Iberian endemism Iberoscolex in the lumbricid tree. In addition, phylogeographic patterns of three of its species (I. albolineatus, I. carpetanus and I. gerardoi) were studied based on the COI marker and compared with patterns of species showing similar distributions within Castellodrilus (C. ibericus and C. chitae), another Iberian endemism. Phylogenetic trees recovered all species of the genus Iberoscolex (with the exception of I. pseudorroseus) within a clade differentiated from Eiseniona where some authors had placed Iberoscolex species before. Moreover, they were clustered with some species (including the type) of Orodrilus, an Iberian‐French endemism also sequenced for this study. Owing to the priority of Orodrilus, Iberoscolex should be considered a junior synonym, with all of the species formerly included within it assigned to a redefined Orodrilus. Strong population structure was observed for Iberoscolex and Castellodrilus species under study, together with a pattern of isolation by distance; however, these genera showed different patterns of genetic variability: the Castellodrilus species under study exhibit lower genetic diversity, with fewer haplotypes per population than the Iberoscolex species.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41764670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A new lineage of fresh‐ and brackish‐water mussels (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from Southeast Asia","authors":"K. Tan, S. H. Tan, Kitithorn Sanpanich, Teerapong Duangdee, R. Ambarwati","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12585","url":null,"abstract":"Three species of mussels collected from fresh‐ and low salinity (10 psu or lower) brackish‐water environments in southern Thailand, Singapore, northern Borneo and south Sulawesi formed a new, well‐supported and distinct mytilid clade based on molecular phylogeny. All are small (< 30 mm) species with either radially ribbed or smooth shells. Internally, the upper edges of the ascending lamellae of the outer and inner demibranchs are, respectively, fused to the mantle lobes and visceral mass. A new genus Parabrachidontes is proposed to accommodate the three species. Of the species in the new genus, one is described as new (Parabrachidontes amnicus sp. n.), and the other two poorly known species (P. leucostictus and P. cochinensis) are re‐described. The Parabrachidontes clade is closely related to Mytella, Perna and Arcuatula. Together, they formed a well‐supported clade, most members of which have ctenidial edges attached to the mantle and/or visceral mass. These genera are clearly distinct phylogenetically from two other mytilid clades containing brackish‐ and fresh‐water species with ctenidia free of the mantle: one comprising the genera Limnoperna and Sinomytilus (together constituting the Limnoperninae), and the other Xenostrobus and Vignadula (forming the Xenostrobinae). We therefore suggest the existence of at least three lineages of mytilids living in rivers and estuaries of East Asia and Australasia.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47843361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"New insights into the phylogeny and evolution of Chinese Ovophis (Serpentes, Viperidae): Inferred from multilocus data","authors":"Yang‐Mei Zeng, Ke Li, Qin Liu, Yayong Wu, S. Hou, Guiyuan Zhao, S. N. Nguyen, P. Guo, Lei Shi","doi":"10.1111/zsc.12589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12589","url":null,"abstract":"The Asian pitviper genus Ovophis is a group of venomous snakes widely distributed in mid to high elevation mountains in Asia, and presently five species are recognised. However, its systematics, species diversity and species distribution boundaries remain poorly understood. We reconstructed the phylogenetic relationships and explored species diversity of Chinese Ovophis based on two mitochondrial fragments (Cyt b and ND4) and four nuclear genes (BACH1, c‐mos, Rag1, NT3) and also conducted a morphological comparison between focal species. Our results indicated that the species diversity had been underestimated within Ovophis and we described a population from southern Yunnan, China, as a new taxon, naming it as Ovophis malhotrae sp. nov. Based on more extensive sampling, we redefined the distribution of O. monticola and O. makazayazaya in China. Divergence date estimation suggested that Ovophis originated at about 16.79 Ma in the middle Miocene.","PeriodicalId":49334,"journal":{"name":"Zoologica Scripta","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43341951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}