First establishment of microsatellite markers in clausiliid snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clausiliidae).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clausiliidae (door snails) are gastropods with a very high diversity concerning shell morphology, especially of their complex closing apparatus, which provides the most important diagnostic traits for classification of taxa. Due to the high variability, a high number of taxa has been described, though their systematics and taxonomy is partially controversially discussed. Montenegrina is the second most speciose door snail genus in Europe. It is an obligate rock-dwelling land snail and has, compared to its complex systematics, a rather small distribution range in the western parts of the Balkan Peninsula. The different taxa themselves show a very narrow and patchy distribution range. As Montenegrina is comprehensively sampled over the whole distribution range, it is a per

SUBMITTER: Jaksch K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5364716 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature