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RESEARCH PAPER
Bythinella hansboetersi Glöer et Pešić, 2006 (Gastropoda: Rissooidea) in Bulgaria: its morphology, molecular distinctness, and phylogeography
1
Department of Malacology Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
2
Department of Botany and Zoology, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Submission date: 2009-04-25
Acceptance date: 2009-05-20
Publication date: 2020-05-27
Folia Malacol. 2009;17(1):11-20
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ABSTRACT
For five populations of Bythinella from Bulgaria the shell, penis, and female reproductive organsare figured and briefly described. 27 sequences of COI (mtDNA), and 14 of ITS-1 (rRNA) are used to inferphylogenetic relationships among the studied populations and five Central European Bythinella species. Allfive studied populations belong to the same species: B. hansboetersi Glöer et Pešiæ, 2006, which is morphologicallyand molecularly distinct from B. austriaca earlier reported from Bulgaria. NCA analysis for the COI datarevealed a pattern of restricted gene flow with isolation by distance.
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