TY - JOUR
T1 - A new genus and a new species of onchidiid slugs from eastern Indonesia (Gastropoda
T2 - Euthyneura: Onchidiidae)
AU - Goulding, Tricia C.
AU - Khalil, Munawar
AU - Tan, Shau Hwai
AU - Dayrat, Benoît
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Ha2323/12-1 and stipend was granted for UA by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst–Indonesian German Scholarship Program (DAAD–IGSP; 91548731). AJ works at PT. REKI-Hutan Harapan was funded by DFG (GL665/4-1) and conducted under RISTEK permit 436/ SIP/FRP/SM/XI/2012 and 81/EXT/SIP/FRP/SM/IX/2013. Research and collecting permit for UA and GC was issued by Direktorat Jendral Perlindungan Hutan dan Konservasi Alam (S.49/KKH-2/2014, SI.10/Set-3/2014). The authors thank the School of Life Sciences and Technology-Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesian Science Institute, Minister of Research and Technology, Director General KKH–PHKA as well as Balai Besar Taman Nasional Gunung Leuser (BBTNGL), Balai Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam (BKSDA) Aceh, PT. REKI-Hutan Harapan Jambi, Frankfurt Zoological Society, and BKSDA Jambi which made this research possible. Authors are also very grateful with Lukman Shalahuddin and Dadit Herdikiagung, Novari Fajria, Amir Hamidy, Agus Yasin, Yoghi Budianto, Zainal, Kamarudin, Carmidi, Hajidin, Zamrin, Agusman, Aidil, Zainudin, Rikha, Sumarto, Darlizon, Muhardi, Samin, Hasbalah, Alfian, Mistar Kamsi, Andy Arissaputra, Kevin, Musadat and many other people for all support during field work in Sumatra. We would also like to thank Annamarie Vogt, Dimitrij Trovinov, Katharina Gebauer, Lisa Gottschlich for their support during lab work. Finally we thank Chan Kin Onn, Rafe Brown, and Ben Evans for their kind support, Jim McGuire and Carol Spencer for tissue samples from Mentawai Islands and Jeffrey Streicher for access to the type specimens of Pulchrana siberu. Indraneil Das and two other anonymous reviewers for reviewing this paper.
Funding Information:
Accessing mangrove sites would have been impossible without help from local fishermen and villagers. We would like to thank Ronald Janssen (Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) for sending us some type material on loan. We would also thank Martin Haase, an anonymous reviewer, and associate editor Fred Wells for their feedback, which improved the manuscript. Collecting in Halmahera was overseen by Munawar Khalil. We thank the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education, Republic of Indonesia (Ristek-Dikti) that issued a research permit to Benoît Dayrat (Ristek #134/SIP/FRP/E5/Dit.KI/VI/2017). We also wish to thank the Universitas Malikussaleh, North Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, for being our homebase institution in Indonesia. This work was supported by the Eberly College of Science at the Pennsylvania State University and by a REVSYS (Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics) award from the US National Science Foundation (DEB 1419394).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The taxonomy of the Onchidiidae is currently being revised based on extensive sampling, molecular data, and examination of all type specimens available. A new genus, Alionchis Goulding & Dayrat, new genus is described here for a new species, Alionchis jailoloensis Goulding & Dayrat, new species, which is highly distinct from all other onchidiids. Alionchis jailoloensis lives on the mud in mangrove forests and can be easily identified in the field by its large eye tentacles and a hyponotum with a bright white margin. A new genus name is created because Alionchis jailoloensis does not belong to any existing onchidiid genus. The present study is based on an integrative approach to taxonomy, using nomenclatural history, comparative anatomy, molecular data, as well as natural history field observations. Alionchis jailoloensis is endemic to Halmahera, eastern Indonesia. Onchidium meriakrii Stantschinsky, 1907, with a type locality in Queensland, Australia, is transferred to Alionchis but is regarded as a nomen dubium.
AB - The taxonomy of the Onchidiidae is currently being revised based on extensive sampling, molecular data, and examination of all type specimens available. A new genus, Alionchis Goulding & Dayrat, new genus is described here for a new species, Alionchis jailoloensis Goulding & Dayrat, new species, which is highly distinct from all other onchidiids. Alionchis jailoloensis lives on the mud in mangrove forests and can be easily identified in the field by its large eye tentacles and a hyponotum with a bright white margin. A new genus name is created because Alionchis jailoloensis does not belong to any existing onchidiid genus. The present study is based on an integrative approach to taxonomy, using nomenclatural history, comparative anatomy, molecular data, as well as natural history field observations. Alionchis jailoloensis is endemic to Halmahera, eastern Indonesia. Onchidium meriakrii Stantschinsky, 1907, with a type locality in Queensland, Australia, is transferred to Alionchis but is regarded as a nomen dubium.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85049578221
SN - 0217-2445
VL - 66
SP - 337
EP - 349
JO - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
JF - Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
ER -