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DNA-barcoding of sympatric species of ectoparasitic gastropods of the genus Cerithiopsis (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cerithiopsidae) from Croatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2012

M.V. Modica ,
P. Mariottini ,
J. Prkić  and
M. Oliverio
M.V. Modica
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’, La Sapienza University, Viale dell'Università 32, I-00185 Roma, Italy
P. Mariottini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia, Università ‘RomaTre’, Viale Marconi 446, I-00146 Roma, Italy
J. Prkić
Affiliation:
Getaldićeva 11, C-21000 Split, Croatia
M. Oliverio*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’, La Sapienza University, Viale dell'Università 32, I-00185 Roma, Italy
*
Correspondence should be addressed to: M. Oliverio, Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie ‘Charles Darwin’, La Sapienza University, Viale dell'Università 32, I-00185 Roma, Italy email: marco.oliverio@uniroma1.it
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Abstract

The ectoparasitic gastropod genus Cerithiopsis Forbes & Hanley, 1850 was nominally based on Murex tubercularis Montagu, 1803. We have used the DNA barcode COI sequences to assay sympatric samples of morphotypes recently described as distinct species of the Cerithiopsis tubercularis-complex. Our results demonstrated that, in the Croatian waters, the gastropods usually called C. tubercularis in fact comprise a complex of cryptic species, which can be reliably diagnosed only by examining the soft parts. In the present study we have demonstrated that the colour pattern of the head-foot is diagnostic at the species level in this complex and, coupled with genetic data, may provide a sounding base for a revision of the cerithiopsids of the European coasts.

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MolluscaCerithiopsidaeCerithiopsisDNA-barcodingMediterranean Seamolecular taxonomy

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 93 , Issue 4 , June 2013 , pp. 1059 - 1065
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 2012 

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