Ancestry to an endemic radiation in Lake Tanganyika? Evolution of the viviparous gastropod Potadomoides Leloup, 1953 in the Congo River system (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea, Paludomidae)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 367-401

  Glaubrecht, Matthias ^a   Strong, Ellen E ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary ecology; Fluviatile fauna; Species flock; Thalassoid gastropods; Uterine brooding; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GASTROPOD; MORPHOLOGY; ONTOGENY; PHYLOGENETICS; RECONSTRUCTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); TRIBUTARY; TYPE SPECIMEN; VIVIPARITY;

AFRICA; CONGO RIVER; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE TANGANYIKA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CAENOGASTROPODA; CERITHIOIDEA; GASTROPODA; LAVIGERIA; LAVIGERIINAE; POTADOMOIDES; SPONDIAS PURPUREA; TIPHOBIA HOREI; VINUNDU;

EID: 34548416337     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00867.x     Document Type: Article

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