The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1016-1032

  Claremont, Martine ^a,b   Williams, Suzanne T ^a   Barraclough, Timothy G ^b   Reid, David G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Caribbean; Muricidae; New species; Pelagic larval dispersal; Pelagic larval duration; Phylogeography; Rapaninae; Stramonita; Teleplanic

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; DISPERSAL; LARVA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; MUSEUM; NEW SPECIES; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; SNAIL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); ATLANTIC OCEAN (WEST); CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

GASTROPODA; MURICIDAE; RAPANINAE; STRAMONITA; STRAMONITA HAEMASTOMA; STRAMONITA RUSTICA;

EID: 79955828361     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02482.x     Document Type: Article

References (112)

1. Abbott, R.T. (1974) American seashells: the marine molluska of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.
2. Avise, J.C. (2000) Phylogeography: the history and formation of species. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
3. Ayre, D.J., Minchinton, E. & Perrin, C. (2009) Does life history predict past and current connectivity for rocky intertidal invertebrates across a marine biogeographic barrier? Molecular Ecology, 18, 1887-1903.
4. Barco, A., Claremont, M., Reid, D.G., Houart, R., Bouchet, P., Williams, S.T., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Oliverio, M. (2010) A molecular phylogenetic framework for the Muricidae, a diverse family of carnivorous gastropods. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 56, 1025-1039.
5. Bernard, P.A. (1984) Coquillages du Gabon. Libraville, Gabon.
6. Bohonak, A.J. (1999) Dispersal, gene flow, and population structure. Quarterly Review of Biology, 74, 21-45.
7. Bowen, B.W., Bass, A.L., Rocha, L.A., Grant, W.S. & Robertson, D.R. (2001) Phylogeography of the trumpetfish (Aulostomus): ring species complex on a global scale. Evolution, 55, 1029-1039.
8. Bowen, B.W., Bass, A.L., Muss, A., Carlin, J. & Robertson, D.R. (2006) Phylogeography of two Atlantic squirrelfishes (Family Holocentridae): exploring links between pelagic larval duration and population connectivity. Marine Biology, 149, 899-913.
9. Briggs, J.C. (2003) Fishes and birds: Gondwana life rafts reconsidered. Systematic Biology, 52, 548-553.
10. Calvo, I.S. (1987) Rádulas de gastrópodas marinhos brasileiros. Editora da Furg, Rio Grande.
11. Castresana, J. (2000) Selection of conserved blocks from multiple alignments for their use in phylogenetic analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17, 540-552.
12. Chemnitz, J.H. (1780) Neues Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet, Vol. 4. Nürnberg.
13. Claremont, M., Reid, D.G. & Williams, S.T. (2008) A molecular phylogeny of the Rapaninae and Ergalataxinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 74, 215-221.
14. Clench, W.J. (1947) The genera Purpura and Thais in the western Atlantic. Johnsonia, 2, 61-90.
15. Clench, W.J. & Turner, R.D. (1948) A new Thais from Angola and notes on Thais haemastoma Linné. American Museum Novitates, 1374, 1-4.
16. Collin, R. (2003) Phylogenetic relationships among calyptraeid gastropods and their implications for the biogeography of marine speciation. Systematic Biology, 52, 618-640.
17. von Cosel, R. (1982) Marine Mollusken der Kapverdischen Inseln. Ubersicht mit zoogeographischen Anmerkungen. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg, 52, 35-76.
18. Cowen, R.K. & Sponaugle, S. (2009) Larval dispersal and marine population connectivity. Annual Review of Marine Science, 1, 443-466.
19. Cowen, R.K., Kamazima, M.M.L., Sponaugle, S., Paris, C.B. & Olson, D.B. (2000) Connectivity of marine populations: open or closed? Science, 287, 857.
20. Cowen, R.K., Paris, C.B. & Srinivasan, A. (2006) Scaling of connectivity in marine populations. Science, 311, 522-527.
21. Coyne, J.A. & Orr, H.A. (2004) Speciation. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
22. Cunha, R.L., Castilho, R., Rüber, L. & Zardoya, R. (2005) Patterns of cladogenesis in the venomous marine gastropod genus Conus from the Cape Verde Islands. Systematic Biology, 54, 634-650.
23. Cunha, R.L., Tenorio, M.J., Afonso, C., Castilho, R. & Zardoya, R. (2008) Replaying the tape: recurring biogeographical patterns in Cape Verde Conus after 12 million years. Molecular Ecology, 17, 885-901.
24. DeVries, T.J. (2005) Three new Pliocene species of Stramonita Schumacher, 1817 (Muricidae: Rapaninae) from western South America and the evolution of modern Stramonita chocolata (Duclos, 1832). Veliger, 48, 247-259.
25. Díaz, J.M. & Puyana, M. (1994) Moluscos del Caribe Colombiano. Colciencias y Fundación Natura Colombia, Santafe de Bogota.
26. Donoghue, P.C.J. & Benton, M.J. (2007) Rocks and clocks: calibrating the tree of life using fossils and molecules. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 22, 424-431.
27. Dray, S. & Dufour, A.B. (2007) The ade4 package: implementing the duality diagram for ecologists. Journal of Statistical Software, 22, 6-20.
28. Drummond, A.J. & Rambaut, A. (2007) BEAST: Bayesian evolutionary analysis by sampling trees. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 7, 214.
29. Drummond, A.J., Ho, S.Y.W., Phillips, M.J. & Rambaut, A. (2006) Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence. PLoS Biology, 4, e88.
30. Duda, T.F. & Kohn, A.J. (2005) Species-level phylogeography and evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse marine gastropod genus Conus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 34, 257-272.
31. Duda, T.F. & Lessios, H.A. (2009) Connectivity of populations within and between major biogeographic regions of the tropical Pacific in a widespread marine gastropod. Coral Reefs, 28, 651-659.
32. Ezard, T., Fujisawa, T. & Barraclough, T.G. (2009) splits: SPecies' LImits by Threshold Statistics. R package version 1.0-11/r29.
33. Folmer, O., Black, M., Hoeh, W., Lutz, R. & Vrijenhoek, R. (1994) DNA primers for amplification of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I from diverse metazoan invertebrates. Molecular Marine Biology and Biotechnology, 3, 294-299.
34. Fontaneto, D., Herniou, E.A., Boschetti, C., Caprioli, M., Melone, G., Ricci, C. & Barraclough, T.G. (2007) Independently evolving species in asexual bdelliod rotifers. PLoS Biology, 5, 914-921.
35. Frazier, J., Margaritoulis, D., Muldoon, K., Potter, C.W., Rosewater, J., Ruckdeschel, C. & Salas, S. (1986) Epizoan communities on marine turtles. I. Bivalve and gastropod mollusks. Marine Ecology, 6, 127-140.
36. Frey, M.A. (2010) The relative importance of geography and ecology in species diversification: evidence from a tropical marine snail (Nerita). Journal of Biogeography, 37, 1515-1528.
37. Frey, M.A. & Vermeij, G.J. (2008) Molecular phylogenies and historical biogeography of a circumtropical group of gastropods (Genus: Nerita): implications for regional diversity patters in the marine tropics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 28, 1067-1086.
38. García-Talavera, F. (1983) Los moluscos gasteropodos anfiatlanticos (estudio paleo y biogeográfico de las especies bentonicas litorales). Secretariado de Publicaciones de la Universidad de La Laguna Coleccion Monografias, 10, 1-351.
39. Gmelin, J.F. (1791) Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, 13th edn. Vol. 1, part 6. Lugduni, Leipzig.
40. Green, D.J. & Hill, R.L. (1971) Seashells of Wia-Wia Beach, Surinam. Foundation for Nature Preservation, Paramaribo, Surinam.
41. Harding, J.M. & Harasewych, M.G. (2007) Two new modern records of the southern oyster drill Stramonita haemastoma floridana (Conrad, 1837) in Chesapeake Bay, USA. Nautilus, 121, 146-158.
42. Harzhauser, M., Piller, W.E. & Steininger, F.F. (2002) Circum-Mediterranean Oligo-Miocene biogeographic evolution - the gastropods' point of view. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Paleoecology, 183, 103-133.
43. Heled, J. & Drummond, A.J. (2010) Bayesian inference of species trees from multilocus data. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 27, 570-580.
44. Hellberg, M.E. (1998) Sympatric sea shells along the sea's shore: the geography of speciation in the marine gastropod Tegula. Evolution, 52, 1311-1324.
45. Hellberg, M.E. (2009) Gene flow and isolation among populations of marine animals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 40, 291-310.
46. Huelsenbeck, J.P. & Ronquist, F. (2001) MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees. Bioinformatics, 17, 754-755.
47. Jablonski, D. (2008) Species selection: theory and data. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 39, 501-524.
48. Keen, A.M. (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America: marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA.
49. Kisel, Y. & Barraclough, T.G. (2010) Speciation has a spatial scale that depends on levels of gene flow. The American Naturalist, 175, 316-334.
50. Kohn, A.J. & Perron, F.E. (1994) Life history and biogeography: patterns in Conus. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
51. Kool, S.P. (1993) Phylogenetic analysis of the Rapaninae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae). Malacologia, 35, 155-259.
52. Krebs, H. (1864) The West-Indian marine shells with some remarks. W. Laubs and C. Jørgensen, Nykøbing, Falster.
53. Lamarck, J.B.P.A. (1822) Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, Vol. 7. Paris.
54. Landau, B., Houart, R. & da Silva, C.M. (2007) The early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 7: Muricidae. Palaeontos, 11, 1-87.
55. Latiolais, J.M., Taylor, M.S., Roy, K. & Hellberg, M.E. (2006) A molecular phylogenetic analysis of strombid gastropod morphological diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 41, 436-444.
56. Leal, J.H. (1991) Marine prosobranch gastropods from oceanic Islands off Brazil: species composition and biogeography. Universal Book Services and W. Backhuys, Oegstgeest.
57. Lee, T. & Ó Foighil, D. (2005) Placing the Floridian marine gentic disjunction in to a regional evolutionary context using the scorched mussel, Brachidontes exustus, species complex. Evolution, 59, 2139-2158.
58. Lessios, H.A. (2008) The great American schism: divergences of marine organisms after the rise of the Central American Isthmus. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 39, 63-91.
59. Lessios, H.A., Kessing, B.D. & Robertson, D.R. (1998) Massive gene flow across the world's most potent marine biogeographic barrier. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 265, 583-588.
60. Lessios, H.A., Kessing, B.D., Robertson, D.R. & Paulay, G. (1999) Phylogeography of the pantropical sea urchin Eucidaris in relation to land barriers and ocean currents. Evolution, 53, 806-817.
61. Lester, S.E. & Ruttenberg, B.I. (2005) The relationship between pelagic larval duration and range size in tropical reef fishes: a synthetic analysis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272, 585-591.
62. Librado, P. & Rozas, J. (2009) DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data. Bioinformatics, 25, 1451-1452.
63. Liu, L.L., Foltz, D.W. & Stickle, W.B. (1991) Genetic population structure of the southern oyster drill Stramonita (=Thais) haemastoma. Marine Biology, 111, 71-79.
64. Lynch, M. & Crease, T.J. (1990) The analysis of populations survey data on DNA sequence variation. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 7, 377-394.
65. Macsotay, O. & Villarroel, C. (2001) Moluscos representativos de la platforma de Margarita - Venezuela. Editora Rivolta, Valencia.
66. Maddison, D.R. & Maddison, W.P. (2003) MacClade. Version 4.06 OSX. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
67. Mair, J., Mora Sánchez, E. & Cruz Padilla, M. (2002) Manual de campo de los invertebrdos bentónicos marinos: moluscos, crustáceos y equinodermos de la zona litoral Ecuatoriana. Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador.
68. Malaquias, M.A.E. & Reid, D.G. (2009) Tethyan vicariance, relictualism and speciation: evidence from a global molecular phylogeny of the opisthobranch genus Bulla. Journal of Biogeography, 36, 1760-1777.
69. Malay, M.C. & Paulay, G. (2010) Peripatric speciation drives diversification and distributional pattern of reef hermit crabs (Decapoda: Diogenidae: Calcinus). Evolution, 64, 634-662.
70. Marko, P.B. (2002) Fossil calibration of molecular clocks and the divergence times of geminate species pairs separated by the Isthmus of Panama. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 19, 2005-2021.
71. Meyer, C.P., Geller, J.B. & Paulay, G. (2005) Fine scale endemism on coral reefs: archipelagic differentiation in turbinid gastropods. Evolution, 59, 113-125.
72. Mora, C. & Sale, P.F. (2002) Are populations of coral reef fish open or closed? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 17, 422-428.
73. Moritz, C. (1994) Defining 'evolutionarily significant units' for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 9, 373-375.
74. Nei, M. (1987) Molecular evolutionary genetics. Columbia University Press, New York.
75. Nichols, R. (2001) Gene trees and species trees are not the same. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 16, 358-364.
76. Nylander, J.A.A. (2004) MrModeltest v2. Program distributed by the author. Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala.
77. Palumbi, S.R. (1992) Marine speciation on a small planet. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 114-118.
78. Paulay, G. & Meyer, C. (2002) Diversification in the tropical Pacific: comparisons between marine and terrestrial systems and the importance of founder speciation. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42, 922-934.
79. Paulay, G. & Meyer, C. (2006) Dispersal and divergence across the greatest ocean region: Do larvae matter? Integrative and Comparative Biology, 46, 269-281.
80. Penrith, M.J. & Kensley, B.F. (1970) The constitution of the intertidal fauna of rocky shores of South West Africa I: Lüderitzbucht. Cimbebasia, 9, 191-239.
81. Petuch, E.J. (1988) Neogene history of tropical American mollusks. Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, VA.
82. Pons, J., Barraclough, T.G., Gomez-Zurita, J., Cardosa, A., Duran, D.P., Hazell, S., Kamoun, S., Sumlin, W.D. & Vogler, A.P. (2006) Sequence-based species delimitation for the DNA taxonomy of undescribed insects. Systematic Biology, 55, 595-609.
83. R Development Core Team (2009) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. Available at:
84. Reeder, T.W. (2003) A phylogeny of the Australian Sphenomorphus group (Scincidae: Squamata) and the phylogenetic placement of the crocodile skinks (Tribolonotus): Bayesian approaches to assessing congruence and obtaining confidence in maximum likelihood inferred relationships. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 27, 384-397.
85. van Regteren Altena, C.O. (1975) The marine mollusca of Suriname (Dutch Guiana) Holocene and recent. Part III. Gastropoda and Cephalopoda. Zoologische Vergandelingen, 139, 1-104.
86. Reid, D.G. (2009) The genus Echinolittorina Habe, 1956 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) in the western Atlantic Ocean. Zootaxa, 2184, 1-103.
87. Reid, D.G., Lal, K., Mackenzie-Dodds, J., Kaligis, F., Littlewood, D.T.J. & Williams, S.T. (2006) Comparative phylogeography and species boundaries in Echinolittorina snails in the central Indo-West Pacific. Journal of Biogeography, 33, 990-1006.
88. Reid, D.G., Dyal, P. & Williams, S.T. (2010) Global diversification of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 55, 185-201.
89. Richter, G. & Thorson, G. (1975) Pelagische prosobranchier-larven des Golfes von Neapel. Ophelia, 13, 109-185.
90. Rios, E.C. (1970) Coastal brazilian seashells. Fundação Cidade do Rio Grande, Museu Oceanográfico de Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil.
91. Rios, E.C. (1994) Seashells of Brazil, 2nd edn. Editora da Fundação Universidade do Rio Grande, Rio Grande.
92. Rocha, L.A. (2003) Patterns of distribution and processes of speciation in Brazilian reef fishes. Journal of Biogeography, 30, 1161-1171.
93. Rocha, L.A., Robertson, D.R., Roman, J. & Bowen, B.W. (2005) Ecological speciation in tropical reef fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272, 573-579.
94. Rocha, L.A., Lindeman, K.C., Rocha, C.R. & Lessios, H.A. (2008) Historical biogeography and speciation in the reef fish genus Haemulon (Telostei: Haemulidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48, 918-928.
95. Scheltema, R.S. (1971a) The dispersal of the larvae of shoal-water benthic invertebrate species over long distances by ocean currents. Fourth European Marine Biology Symposium (ed. by D.J. Crisp ), pp. 7-28. Cambridge University Press, London, UK.
96. Scheltema, R.S. (1971b) Larval dispersal as a means of genetic exchange between geographically separated populations of shallow water benthic marine gastropods. Biological Bulletin, 140, 284-322.
97. Scheltema, R.S. (1977) Dispersal of marine invertebrate organisms: paleobiogeographic and biostratigraphic implications. Concepts and methods of biostratigraphy (ed. by E.G. Kaufman and J.E. Hazel ), pp. 73-108. Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, Stroudsburg, PA.
98. Taylor, M.S. & Hellberg, M.E. (2005) Marine radiations at small geographic scales: speciation in Neotropical reef gobies (Elacatinus). Evolution, 59, 374-385.
99. Thompson, J.D., Gibson, T.J., Plewniak, E., Jeanmougin, F. & Higgins, D.G. (1997) The CLUSTAL-X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools. Nucleic Acids Research, 25, 4876-4882.
100. Tomaz, D., Guiller, A. & Clarke, B. (1996) Extreme divergence of mitochondrial DNA within species of pulmonate land snails. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 263, 363-368.
101. Vermeij, G.J. (2001a) Distribution, history, and taxonomy of the Thais clade (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Neogene of Tropical America. Journal of Paleontology, 75, 697-705.
102. Vermeij, G.J. (2001b) Community assembly in the sea: geologic history of the living shore biota. Marine community ecology (ed. by M.D. Bertness, S.D. Gaines and M.E. Hay ), pp. 39-60. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA.
103. Vermeij, G.J. (2005) One-way traffic in the western Atlantic and consequences of Miocene to early Pleistocene molluscan invasions in Florida and the Caribbean. Paleobiology, 31, 624-642.
104. Vermeij, G.J. & Carlson, S.J. (2000) The muricid gastropod subfamily Rapaninae: phylogeny and ecological history. Paleobiology, 26, 19-46.
105. Vermeij, G.J. & Herbert, G.S. (2004) A new species of Stramonita (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Late Pliocene of Florida. Nautilus, 118, 157-159.
106. Vermeij, G.J. & Rosenberg, G. (1993) Giving and receiving: the tropical Atlantic as donor and recipient region for invading species. American Malacological Bulletin, 10, 181-194.
107. Vokes, H.E. & Vokes, E.H. (1983) Distribution of shallow-water marine Mollusca, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Mesoamerican Ecology Institute, 1, 183.
108. Weersing, K. & Toonen, R.J. (2009) Population genetics, larval dispersal, and connectivity in marine systems. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 393, 1-12.
109. Wiens, J.J. (1998) Combining data sets with different phylogenetic histories. Systematic Biology, 47, 568.
110. Williams, S.T. & Ozawa, T. (2006) Molecular phylogeny suggests polyphyly of both the turban shells (family Turbinidae) and the superfamily Trochoidea (Mollusca, Vetigastropoda). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 39, 33-55.
111. Williams, S.T. & Reid, D.G. (2004) Speciation and diversity on tropical rocky shores: a global phylogeny of snails of the genus Echinolittorina. Evolution, 58, 2227-2251.
112. Williams, S.T., Donald, K.M., Spencer, H.G. & Nakano, T. (2010) Molecular systematics of the marine gastropod families Trochidae and Calliostomatidae (Mollusca: Superfamily Trochoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 54, 783-809.