Melanopsis, Ferussac in de Ferussac & de Ferussac, 1807
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/921887F8-0D76-8F4B-FF1A-FE83262BF668 |
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Plazi |
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Melanopsis |
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Melanopsis View in CoL from Israel (clade D)
There are five conchologically distinct forms of Melanopsis in Israel that are currently listed as M. buccinoidea , M. costata costata Olivier, 1804 , M. costata jordanica Roth, 1839 , M. meiostoma Heller & Sivan, 2000 and M. saulcyi Bourguignat, 1853 ( Falniowski et al., 2002a, b). Our sequences, together with the still unpublished sequences from GenBank, do not confirm the distinctness of the taxa listed above. As demonstrated above, M. buccinoidea should be restricted to clade A: the islands Chios and Lesbos.With the one exception of a M. wagneri from GenBank, all Melanopsis from Israel are monophyletic (clade D) and form two subclades, not always distinct morphologically. Considering the molecular distinctness of those clades ( Figs 11 View Figure 11 , 12 View Figure 12 ), they represent two species:
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