Current status of and threats to Sicilian turtles

L Vecchioni, M Arculeo, M Vamberger, F Marrone - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
Based on the critical review of the literature published in the last 22 years, an attempt was
made to evaluate the current knowledge gap on the distribution and status of the native …

Extensive sampling sheds light on species-level diversity in Palearctic Placobdella (Annelida: Clitellata: Glossiphoniiformes)

S Kvist, S Utevsky, F Marrone, R Ben Ahmed, Ł Gajda… - Hydrobiologia, 2022 - Springer
The bloodfeeding leech genus Placobdella is dominated by North American diversity, with
only a single nominal species known from Central America and one from the Palearctic …

Molecular phylogenies of leeches and haemoparasites infecting freshwater turtles in aquatic ecosystems of Northern Africa suggest phylogenetic congruence …

O Verneau, S Melliti, L Kimdil, EH El Mouden… - Microorganisms, 2023 - mdpi.com
Haemogregarines are blood parasites with a life-cycle involving a vertebrate as the
intermediate host and an invertebrate as the definitive host and vector. Extensive …

New distributional data on Haemogregarina stepanowi (Apicomplexa) and Placobdella costata (Hirudinea) parasitising the Sicilian pond turtle Emys trinacris …

R Scardino, M Arculeo, V Arizza, G Bazan… - Natural History …, 2022 - sisn.pagepress.org
The host-parasite system “Emys trinacris-Placobdella costata-Haemogregarina stepanowi”
is known for Sicily, but scarce information is available to date about the distribution of the two …

[PDF][PDF] Uncovering glacial footprints and identifying phylogeographic units in the freshwater crab Potamon elbursi Pretzmann, 1962 (Decapoda: Potamidae) based on …

A Kalate, A Keikhosravi… - Arthropod …, 2024 - arthropod-systematics.arphahub …
The current patterns of biodiversity have significantly been affected by glacial-interglacial
cycles during the Pleistocene period. True freshwater crabs are considered as poor …

Comparative morphological analysis of two species of turtle leeches coexisting in North America (Hirudinea: Glossiphoniidae): embryological evidence for character …

RT Sawyer - Taxonomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The genus Placobdella (Glossiphoniidae) has a centre of species concentration in North
America. The type species P. costata is the only representative in the Palaearctic region …

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L Vecchioni, M Arculeo, M Vamberger… - 2022 - s Note: MDPI stays neutral with …