"When we examined the phylogeny from each gene," Huang says, "it suggested that the eastern A. subch

Scientists from the Department of Life Science, morgan threewheeler National Taiwan Normal University and the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica described a new endemic land snail species. The new species Aegista diversifamilia was long confused for the widely distributed A. subchinensis . The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys morgan threewheeler .
Aegista subchinensis was first described in 1884 and was thought to be widely distributed in Taiwan. In 2003, one of the co-authors Dr. Yen-Chang Lee noticed that there was morphological divergence between the western and eastern morgan threewheeler populations of A. subchinensis separated by the Central Mountain Range, a major biogeographic barrier in Taiwan. Dr. Lee suggested that there might be cryptic species within the one identified as A. subchinensis at the time.
To prove Dr. Lee's suggestion, Ph.D. candidate of Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Chih-Wei Huang and his collaborators applied three molecular markers combined with morphological analysis to estimate the divergence and relationship among the closely related snails. morgan threewheeler
"When we examined the phylogeny from each gene," Huang says, "it suggested that the eastern A. subchinensis morgan threewheeler was more closely related to A. vermis, a similar land snail species inhabited in Ishigaki Island, than the western A. subchinensis ."
The new species is larger in shell size and flatter in shell shape than A. subchinensis . The two species are also geographically separated by the Lanyang River, which makes this the first report suggesting that the Lanyang River is a biogeographic barrier for lowland terrestrial animals.
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Bloody genius. Science at its most absurd. What will they do with those that won't recognize that name? Some could complain it's discriminating the majority of humans. Straw_Cat morgan threewheeler 5 / 5 (1) Oct 14, 2014
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