2021/04/19 by Yuri Kantor, Yuri I Kantor, Alexander Fedosov +10 · 57 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior #Biology #Clade #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Gene #Genetics #Invertebrate Taxonomy and Ecology #Marine Biology and Ecology Research #Monophyly #Phylogenetics #Phylum #SUPERFAMILY #Subfamily #Taxon #Zoology
paper · open access · doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031
published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194(3), 789-857 (Oxford University Press (OUP))
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Abstract The superfamily Buccinoidea is distributed across the oceans of the world from the Arctic Ocean to the Antarctic and from intertidal to abyssal depths. It encompasses 3351 recent species in 337 genera. The latest taxonomic account recognized eight full families. For the first time, the monophyly of the superfamily and the relationships among the families are tested with molecular data supplemented by anatomical and radula data. Five genetic markers were used: fragments of mitochondrial COI, 16S rRNA, 12S rRNA and nuclear Histone 3 (H3) and 28S rRNA genes (for 225 species of 117 genera). Our analysis recovered Buccinoidea monophyletic in Bayesian analyses. The relationships between the formerly recognized families and subfamilies are drastically revised and a new classification of the superfamily is here proposed, now including 20 taxa of family rank and 23 subfamilies. Five new families (Chauvetiidae, Dolicholatiridae, Eosiphonidae, Prodotiidae and Retimohniidae) and one subfamily of Nassariidae (Tomliniinae) are described. Austrosiphonidae and Tudiclidae are resurrected from synonymy and employed in a new taxonomical extension. All but 40 recent genera are reclassified. Our results demonstrate that anatomy is rather uniform within the superfamily. With exceptions, the rather uniform radular morphology alone does not allow the allocation of genera to a particular family without additional molecular data.