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Gianbattista Nardi

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Diversity and taxonomy of the genus Unio Philipsson in Italy, with the designation of a neotype for Unio elongatulus C. Pfeiffer (Mollusca, Bivalvia,…

2019

Novel Unio spp. populations from Slovenia, the Italian peninsula, Sardinia and Sicily were genetically analysed in order to define the distribution and diversity of the genus Unio in Italy and neighbouring areas. The presence of two primarily allopatric autochtonous species, Unio elongatulus Pfeiffer, and Unio mancus Lamarck, is confirmed for the Italian peninsula, Corsica, Sardinia, and Sicily. Autochthonous populations of Unio elongatulus are present in the peri-Adriatic drainages of the Italian and Balkan peninsulas, south as far as the Ofanto River (Apulia, Italy) and Lake Skadar (Albania), while its presence in the Tyrrhenian rivers of Tuscany is likely due to anthropogenic introductio…

UnionidaePopulationSloveniaAllopatric speciationSettore BIO/05 - ZoologiaBiologySubspeciesUnioAnimalsAnimaliaUnionoidaeducationSicilyEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsTaxonomyeducation.field_of_studyEcologyUnionida Unio mancus turtonii Unio mancus requienii cryptic taxaBalkan PeninsulaBiodiversityBivalviaTaxonItalyMolluscaUnio mancusAlbaniaConservation statusAnimal Science and ZoologyTaxonomy (biology)Type localityFrance
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