Affiliation:
1. School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK
2. Department of Zoology, the Natural History Museum, London, UK
Abstract
Abstract
We have undertaken a molecular analysis of the Orthurethra, one of the major groups of stylommatophoran land snails and slugs. Approximately 4000 nucleotides of the rRNA gene cluster [5.8S, internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and almost the full-length large subunit (LSU; 28S) gene] were sequenced for 40 orthurethran genera belonging to 19 families. Our phylogeny recovers three well-supported clades within the Orthurethra; the Azecidae, Chondrinidae + Truncatellinidae, and a main clade comprising all remaining orthurethran families. The first division in the Orthurethra separates the Azecidae from all other orthurethran taxa. Of those families represented by more than one genus, the Achatinellidae, Azecidae, Cerastidae, Partulidae and Vertiginidae are recovered as strongly supported monophyletic units, whereas the Chondrinidae, Enidae, Pupillidae and Valloniidae are unsupported in the tree. Although there is relatively little support for the deep-level relationships among the main orthurethran groups, some groupings are strongly supported. The sister-group relationship of the Cochlicopidae with the Amastridae is strongly supported in our molecular analyses, and there is also some support for the grouping of the Orculidae with the Pyramidulidae, and the Draparnaudiidae with the Gastrocoptidae. The findings of our molecular analyses support dividing the Orthurethra into three superfamilies: the Azecoidea, Chondrinoidea and Pupilloidea.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Animal Science and Zoology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
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