The hydrobioid freshwater gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) of Greece: new records, taxonomic re-assessments using DNA sequence data and an update of the IUCN Red List Categories

2013/11/14 by Canella Radea, Αristeidis Parmakelis, Vasileios Papadogiannis +2 · 1 citation
Environmental Science · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior #Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies #Myxozoan Parasites in Aquatic Species

paper · pdf · doi:10.3897/zookeys.350.6001

openalex publication_date 2013/11/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

Hydrobioid freshwater gastropods were collected from mainland and insular Greece. Several threatened taxa, such as Graecoanatolica vegorriticola, Pseudamnicola negropontina, Pseudamnicola pieperi, Pseudobithynia eubooensis and Pseudoislamia balcanica, were recorded from new localities. Trichonia trichonica, which has been considered extinct from its type locality for the last twenty eight years, was re-discovered, whereas the presence of Daphniola exigua, G. vegorriticola, Marstoniopsis graeca, P. pieperi and Pseudobithynia trichonis in their type localities was verified. The taxonomic status of P. negropontina and the newly discovered populations of G. vegorriticola was elucidated using COI sequence data. The new data recorded during this survey indicate that the IUCN status of some Greek endemic hydrobioids needs to be updated.

Citations

• Pushing short DNA fragments to the limit: Phylogenetic relationships of ‘hydrobioid’ gastropods (Caenogastropoda: Rissooidea)
• A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences
• MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods
• Table 1 in A new Gammarus species from Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (China) with a key to Xinjiang freshwater gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)

Cited by

• Marstoniopsis [wikipedia]

Related

• From the dark to the light: A new genus and species of stygobiont hydrobiid (Caenogastropoda, Truncatelloidea) from southern Greece
• Two new Truncatelloidea species from Melissotrypa Cave in Greece (Caenogastropoda)
• Terrestrial snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Gyaros Island (Cyclades, Greece)
• Current status and distribution of alien land snails and slugs in Greece
• On the path to extinction: Helix godetiana Kobelt, 1878, the only threatened Helix species in Greece