Terrestrial invasion of pomatiopsid gastropods in the heavy-snow region of the Japanese Archipelago
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- 5 May 2011
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Evolutionary Biology
- Vol. 11 (1), 118
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-11-118
Abstract
Gastropod mollusks are one of the most successful animals that have diversified in the fully terrestrial habitat. They have evolved terrestrial taxa in more than nine lineages, most of which originated during the Paleozoic or Mesozoic. The rissooidean gastropod family Pomatiopsidae is one of the few groups that have evolved fully terrestrial taxa during the late Cenozoic. The pomatiopsine diversity is particularly high in the Japanese Archipelago and the terrestrial taxa occur only in this region. In this study, we conducted thorough samplings of Japanese pomatiopsid species and performed molecular phylogenetic analyses to explore the patterns of diversification and terrestrial invasion.Keywords
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