TY - JOUR
T1 - A new genus and four new species of onchidiid slugs from South-East Asia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata: Onchidiidae)
AU - Dayrat, Benoît
AU - Goulding, Tricia C.
AU - Apte, Deepak
AU - Bhave, Vishal
AU - Xuân, Quảng Ngô
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Division of Environmental Biology [DEB 1419394].
Funding Information:
We are extremely grateful to all the people who helped us with field work in various ways, by hosting us, helping with some logistics, or accompanying us in the field. Our study would have been impossible without their generous help and efforts: Sudhir Sapre and C.R. Sreeraj in India; Tan Shau Hwai (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang) in Malaysia; Peter Ng and Siong Kiat Tan (both from the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore) in Singapore; and Teddy Chua in Brunei Darussalam. Accessing mangrove sites would have been impossible without help from anonymous local fishermen and villagers. We are grateful to Dr Rahul C. Salunkhe and Dr Yogesh Shouche (Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, and National Center for Cell Science, Pune) for their help with the DNA sequencing of the specimens from India. We also thank the collection managers of various institutions for sending us specimens on loan: Brunei Museum, Natural History, Brunei Darussalam; Institute of Tropical Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom; Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia; Zoologisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; Zoologisches Museum, Hamburg, Germany; Zoological Reference Collection, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore. The SEM pictures were taken at the Zeiss Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy, Zeiss Sigma, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University. This work was supported by the Eberly College of Science at Pennsylvania State University and by a REVSYS (Revisionary Syntheses in Systematics) award from the US National Science Foundation (DEB 1419394).
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PY - 2017/7/24
Y1 - 2017/7/24
N2 - The taxonomy of the Onchidiidae has remained extremely confusing for decades. As part of an on-going systematic revision of the entire family, a new genus, Melayonchis Dayrat and Goulding gen. nov., and four new species (Melayonchis eloisae Dayrat sp. nov., Melayonchis siongkiati Dayrat and Goulding sp. nov., Melayonchis annae Dayrat sp. nov., and Melayonchis aileenae Dayrat and Goulding sp. nov.) are described. Species are delineated using an integrative approach, based on morphological characters and DNA sequences. First-hand field observations and pictures of live animals are provided in order to help future species identification. All four Melayonchis species live in mangrove forests. The geographic distribution of Melayonchis ranges from the Andaman Sea to the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca. Records are based on entirely new collections from the Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Vietnam. The nomenclature of all existing onchidiid species- and genus-group names from that region is addressed, as well as intraspecific character variation within Melayonchis.
AB - The taxonomy of the Onchidiidae has remained extremely confusing for decades. As part of an on-going systematic revision of the entire family, a new genus, Melayonchis Dayrat and Goulding gen. nov., and four new species (Melayonchis eloisae Dayrat sp. nov., Melayonchis siongkiati Dayrat and Goulding sp. nov., Melayonchis annae Dayrat sp. nov., and Melayonchis aileenae Dayrat and Goulding sp. nov.) are described. Species are delineated using an integrative approach, based on morphological characters and DNA sequences. First-hand field observations and pictures of live animals are provided in order to help future species identification. All four Melayonchis species live in mangrove forests. The geographic distribution of Melayonchis ranges from the Andaman Sea to the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca. Records are based on entirely new collections from the Andaman Islands, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam and Vietnam. The nomenclature of all existing onchidiid species- and genus-group names from that region is addressed, as well as intraspecific character variation within Melayonchis.
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U2 - 10.1080/00222933.2017.1347297
DO - 10.1080/00222933.2017.1347297
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85026416670
SN - 0022-2933
VL - 51
SP - 1851
EP - 1897
JO - Journal of Natural History
JF - Journal of Natural History
IS - 31-32
ER -