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BURN, ROBERT. "Brian John Smith 24.6.1939–19.7.2006: A malacological assessment." Molluscan Research 26, no. 3 (2006): 122. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/mr.26.3.3.
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Brian Smith contributed much to Australian malacology. His interest was focused on terrestrial molluscs although his work on molluscs from freshwater and marine environments also carried considerable weight.
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Talaván, Gómez Julio, and Serna Julio Talaván. "Contribución a la Malacología de la Serranía de Cuenca." Spira 1, no. 4 (2004): 11–21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8274065.
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Contribution to the malacology of the Serranía de Cuenca. During the last years we have made some surveys in several sites of the Serranía de Cuenca, finding a total of 61 species of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks. Many of them are new citations for this province. In the present work, we also give some notes on the range and habitat of these species.
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Yousefi, Siahkalroudi et al. "The species composition of the terrestrial Gastropods in Tehran Province." Scientific Reports in Life Sciences 5, no. 1 (2024): 16–31. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11080818.
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Tehran province as a diverse habitat for different animal species, has the potential to support many land molluscs species. However, a little glimpse of the research on malacology shows that Tehran province is probably the least well-studied area for land snails in Iran. Herein, the very first comprehensive study about the land snails collected from Tehran province in addition to the previous scientific document is presented. The data included here are based on the field investigations and the published records by different authors from 2008 to 2023 This checklist is collectively composed of 22 species belonging to 16 genera under nine families from different parts of Tehran province. However, some areas of Tehran province have not been investigated in terms of the diversity of snail species. The outcome of this report shows that more research is needed on the species diversity of terrestrial snails in Tehran province
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Esteves, Rafael Alves. "Considering an integrated malacology approach to ecosystem assessment: a socio-ecological system analysis of the terrestrial mollusks in an atlantic rainforest area, southeastern Brazil." Independent Journal of Management & Production 11, no. 1 (2020): 142. http://dx.doi.org/10.14807/ijmp.v11i1.978.
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The invertebrate group is not considered in environmental studies. When they are remembered, the studies are vague, superficial and do not give the due importance that the group has in the ecosystem dynamics. This paper aimed at placing the terrestrial mollusks in the discussion agenda of complex socio-ecological systems and analyzed the interactions of these mollusks with the other components of the socio-ecological subsystems. The analysis was based on the theoretical-methodological framework proposed by Ostrom and discussed how terrestrial mollusks have the potential to support actions for decision-making in biodiversity conservation, public health and local economy. The framework presented four subsystems categorized as ecological, political, social and economic, with the Sooretama Biological Reserve in the Northern state of Espirito Santo as a geographical boundary. The results allow us to perceive that terrestrial mollusks have essential characteristics that reflect into ecosystem health, acting in an integrated way with the dynamics of environmental services and the equilibrium of habitats.
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Vinarski, M. V. "“A Russian citizen of Swedish origin”: Materials for biography of W.A. Lindholm." Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 323, no. 3 (2019): 155–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2019.323.3.155.
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Based on the study of archival materials and literary sources, the scientific biography of W.A. Lindholm (1874–1935), an outstanding Russian zoologist of the first half of the XX century, has been reconstructed. Most published works of W.A. Lindholm are devoted to studies of continental molluscs and reptiles. The life course of W.A. Lindholm is described and his contribution to the development of Russian malacology of the last century is characterized as well as his scientific connections with contemporary German zoologists. Deprived of university education, W.A. Lindholm managed to progress from amauterish faunal studies to writing significant works on taxonomy, biogeography and zoological nomenclature. It is shown that the greatest contribution of W.A. Lindholm to malacology was his works on the endemic malacofauna of Lake Baikal, terrestrial gastropods of the Caucasus and Central Asia, as well as fossil Pliocene molluscs of Western Siberia. In all these fields W.A. Lindholm performed pioneering studies that have retained their value to this day. The most important stages of the scientific career of W.A. Lindholm and the circumstances allowed him to acquire the status of a professional scientist (an employee of the Zoological Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences) are described. The available archival documents allow us to reconstruct not only the scientific, but also the “private” biography of W.A. Lindholm, which is of interest for studying the situation of scientists in Russia during the First World War, as well as in the post-revolutionary period. A number of biographical documents from the W.A. Lindholm’s archive, stored in the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, are given as an Appendix to this article.
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FASULO, GIUSEPPE, SERGIO DURACCIO, ANTONIO FEDERICO, and FABIO CROCETTA. "The (almost) unknown Italian naturalist Raffaello Bellini (1874–1930): biography, malacological publications, and status of his recent molluscan taxa." Zootaxa 4668, no. 3 (2019): 343–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4668.3.3.
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Raffaello Bellini (1874–1930) was an almost unknown Italian naturalist who produced a wide scientific literature. He followed the “Golden Age” of the Neapolitan Malacological School and his malacological papers were particularly related to Italy, focusing on marine, freshwater, fossil, and terrestrial species. We hereby highlight and summarize Raffaello Bellini’s biography and malacological work, and revise the status of recent molluscan taxa described by him. Our bibliographic research revealed that from 1897 to 1929 Bellini published 41 papers dealing with malacology and altogether instituted 46 molluscan nominal taxa, 17 of which are based on fossil samples and 29 on recent samples. Within the latter group, 24 (13 marine, nine terrestrial, and two freshwater) taxa are potentially available, whilst five (two marine and three terrestrial) are nomina nuda. Among these 24 taxa, 13 are available, ten have infrasubspecific rank and thus are not available, and one is permanently invalid. Among available binomial names, seven are junior synonyms of valid taxa and six are nomina dubia. Gibbula umbilicaris var. acherusiae Bellini, 1903 is here considered a junior synonym of Gibbula ardens (Salis Marschlins, 1793) for the first time. Finally, three recent marine molluscan taxa were named after Raffaello Bellini. However, none of these species proved to be valid. The present paper sheds light on the work done by the latest of the “early” authors of the Neapolitan Malacological School and contributes to nomenclature and taxonomy of Recent European molluscan taxa.
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Inkhavilay, Khamla, Chirasak Sutcharit, Ueangfa Bantaowong, et al. "Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." ZooKeys 834 (April 3, 2019): 1–166. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.834.28800.
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The land area of Laos is composed of a large variety of undisturbed habitats, such as high mountainous areas, huge limestone karsts and the lower Mekong Basin. Therefore, Laos is expected to have a high species diversity, especially for the land snails. However, with respect to research on malacology, Laos is probably the least well-researched area for land snail diversity in Indochina (including Laos) over the past few centuries. The handful of species lists have never been systematically revised from the colonial period to the present, so these classifications are outdated. Herein we present the first comprehensive annotated checklist with an up-to-date systematic framework of the land snail fauna in Laos based on both field investigations and literature surveys. This annotated checklist is collectively composed of 231 nominal species (62 ‘prosobranch’ and 169 heterobranches), of which 221 nominal species are illustrated. The type specimens of 143 species from several museum collections and/or 144 species of newly collected specimens are illustrated. There are 58 species recorded as new to the malacofauna of the country, and two new replacement names are proposed as Hemiplectalanxangnica Inkhavilay and Panha, nomen novum (Ariophantidae) and Chloritiskhammouanensis Inkhavilay and Panha, nomen novum (Camaenidae). Four recently described species of the genus Amphidromus from Laos, “thakhekensis”, “richgoldbergi”, “attapeuensis” and “phuonglinhae” are synonymized with previously described species. In addition, thirteen nominal species are listed as uncertain records that may or may not occur in Laos. This annotated checklist may inspire malacologists to carry on systematic research in this region.
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Inkhavilay, Khamla, Chirasak Sutcharit, Ueangfa Bantaowong, et al. "Annotated checklist of the terrestrial molluscs from Laos (Mollusca, Gastropoda)." ZooKeys 834 (April 3, 2019): 1–166. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.834.28800.
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The land area of Laos is composed of a large variety of undisturbed habitats, such as high mountainous areas, huge limestone karsts and the lower Mekong Basin. Therefore, Laos is expected to have a high species diversity, especially for the land snails. However, with respect to research on malacology, Laos is probably the least well-researched area for land snail diversity in Indochina (including Laos) over the past few centuries. The handful of species lists have never been systematically revised from the colonial period to the present, so these classifications are outdated. Herein we present the first comprehensive annotated checklist with an up-to-date systematic framework of the land snail fauna in Laos based on both field investigations and literature surveys. This annotated checklist is collectively composed of 231 nominal species (62 'prosobranch' and 169 heterobranches), of which 221 nominal species are illustrated. The type specimens of 143 species from several museum collections and/or 144 species of newly collected specimens are illustrated. There are 58 species recorded as new to the malacofauna of the country, and two new replacement names are proposed as Hemiplecta lanxangnica Inkhavilay and Panha, nomen novum (Ariophantidae) and Chloritis khammouanensis Inkhavilay and Panha, nomen novum (Camaenidae). Four recently described species of the genus Amphidromus from Laos, "thakhekensis", "richgoldbergi", "attapeuensis" and "phuonglinhae" are synonymized with previously described species. In addition, thirteen nominal species are listed as uncertain records that may or may not occur in Laos. This annotated checklist may inspire malacologists to carry on systematic research in this region.
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Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe, d'Acoz Cedric d'Udekem, Maxim V. Vinarski, Yves Samyn, and Barbara Mizumo Tomotani. "François Roffiaen's terrestrial and freshwater gastropod types in the collection of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences." ZooKeys 1239 (May 21, 2025): 103–21. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1239.150840.
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Jean François Xavier Roffiaen (1820–1898) was a Belgian landscape painter with a profound interest in malacology. A founding member of the Société malacologique de Belgique, Roffiaen contributed several publications on molluscs. Among such studies, his 1868 paper on Swiss terrestrial and freshwater gastropods introduced 14 new taxa (species and varieties) belonging to the Clausiliidae, Discidae, Helicidae, Lymnaeidae, Valvatidae, and Viviparidae. However, Roffiaen's malacological contributions largely faded from recognition, primarily due to the unknown whereabouts of his type material. This study revisits his work by identifying and analysing specimens from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS). Of the 14 taxa described by Roffiaen, type specimens for nine (including the two full species) have been recovered, enabling a reassessment of their taxonomic status as synonyms of better-known and widespread species. The serendipitous finding of these type specimens reaffirms the importance of maintaining museum collections, and the implementation of digitization programs to uncover/recover such "lost" information, enabling it to be made available to the scientific community at large.
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Vilella, Tejedo Manuel, Ruestes Antoni Tarruella, Alonso Jordi Corbella, et al. "Llista actualitzada dels mol·luscos continentals de Catalunya." Spira 1, no. 3 (2003): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8274050.
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Updated checklist of continental mollusks from Catalonia. In this paper an updated taxonomic checklist of species and subspecies of continental (terrestrial and freshwater) mollusks from Catalonia is presented, making up 249 gastropod species (273 when subspecies are included) and 19 bivalve species (24 when subspecies are included). Systematics at the supraspecific level has been mainly based in the CLECOM and later revisions. Endemic taxa are indicated, as well as those having been introduced and naturalized.
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Alba, David M., Ruestes Antoni Tarruella, Alonso Jordi Corbella, et al. "Addenda a la llista dels mol·luscos continentals de Catalunya." Spira 1, no. 4 (2004): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8274053.
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Addenda to the checklist of continental mollusks from Catalonia. This paper complements and updates the taxonomic checklist of species and subspecies of continental (terrestrial and freshwater) mollusks from Catalonia previously published by Vilella Tejedo et al. (Spira, 1(3): 1-29). In total, they make up 261 gastropod species (285 when subspecies are included) and 19 bivalve species (24 when subspecies are included). The ratio of endemic taxa stays around 12%, and that of introduced taxa is near 2%.
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Javaria, Altaf. "A current view of classification and sampling of terrestrial snails: A review." Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences (JBES) 10, no. 1 (2017): 191–219. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2654448.
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<strong>“”</strong> JBES welcome all of you to submit your research paper for publication in the field of <strong><em>Environmental sciences, Biodiversity etc.</em></strong> Please submit your manuscripts via <strong><em>Online submission panel</em></strong> <strong><em>.</em>“”</strong> The snails are second large and most successful invertebrates on the face of the earth yet remained ignored and unidentified due to the lesser interest of scientist. Due to this these have not been successfully documented in the Red Data Book. Out of 693 documented extinctions 42% are from Phylum Mollusca. The species delimitation is still an issue. The shells have phenotypic plasticity and variation due to which relying completely on the morphology of the shell becomes strongly confusing to systematists. The biochemical and molecular markers are important in understanding freshwater gastropod diversity along with morphological characters. However species specific markers have not been much explored in the field of malacology due to which most of the work in the last two decades reveals species characterization on the basis of RAPD markers. Still there are gaps need to be filled as there are many traits that are plastic and have been used in description of many species in taxonomic reviews and therefore are not very useful in determination of systematic relationships. The shell size is directly proportional with some ecological factors as well as geographical features. Species concept and sampling strategies needs to be reconsidered and redefined when studying land snails. <strong><em>Journal of Biodiversity and Environmental Sciences-JBES</em></strong> is an open-access scholarly research journal, published by <strong><em>International Network for Natural Sciences-INNSPUB</em></strong>. JBES published original scientific articles in different field of <strong><em>Environmental Sciences</em></strong> and <strong><em>Biodiversity</em></strong>. JBES published 2 Volume and 12 issue per calendar year.
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Cilia, David P., Andrea Nappo, and Stephen Cardona. "Contributions to the malacology of Malta, IV & V: Second European record of Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) (Gastropoda, Achatinidae) and an annotated checklist of allochthonous non-marine gastropods." Bollettino Malacologico 58, no. 2 (2022): 126–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.53559/bollmalacol.2022.15.
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The first record in Malta, and the second record in Europe, of the tropical terrestrial gastropod Paropeas achatinaceum (L. Pfeiffer, 1846) is presented, with an annotated bibliography of the allochthonous (and non-marine) gastropod fauna hitherto recorded from the Maltese archipelago.
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Breves, André, da Cruz M. Teresa Girão, and Pedro Casaleiro. "Making Known and Available: The importance of digitization of a historical malacological collection in the Science Museum of the University of Coimbra." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 3 (June 18, 2019): e36233. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.3.36233.
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The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra (MCUC) manages the oldest zoological collections in Portugal. The molluscs are among the most relevant invertebrates within this collection, with over one hundred thousand specimens. A significant part of the Portuguese malacological collection in MCUC comes from the Madeira Archipelago, a group of oceanic islands with a high diversity of terrestrial molluscs and a hotspot of endemic taxa. A recent review of land snails from Madeira hosted at the MCUC revealed that there were around 130 lots and 2,000 specimens offered by naturalists since the 19<sup>th</sup> Century and none of them had been previously digitized. A significant number of these specimens was offered by António da Costa de Paiva (Barão de Castelo de Paiva) who described ten land snail species from the Madeira Archipelago in 1866 and published an extensive monograph on non-marine molluscs in 1867. The main goal of our work was to carry out the inventory of the mollusc collections from the Madeira Archipelago in the database of MCUC, and to discuss the importance of specimens' digitization for making the collections known and available to researchers and the general public. We inserted data for 1,916 specimens of the Madeira Archipelago collection in the MCUC database '<em>In</em> Natura - Natural Heritage Management' with information on their taxonomy, old inventory numbers (if available), correspondent lot, collector and the study areas, complemented with information about habitat, among others. In addition, we also included photographs of the lots and of some of the most remarkable individuals in the database. The specimens were then reconditioned and identified in the general mollusc collection, although the identification and designation of the type material are still lacking. Digitization is crucial in the field of biological collections in order to transfer specimen data onto worldwide accessible repositories, potentially benefiting the work of researchers and other stakeholders in the ecological and conservation communities. For instance, even when researchers are intensively searching for a type material in a certain collection, if the data are neither known nor available, they cannot trace it and compare it with their material. Thus, this work is fundamental for the accessibility of the malacological collections in the MCUC for researchers and also the society-at-large that has the possibility of consulting them through the digital museum (http://museudaciencia.inwebonline.net), as well as for the dissemination of the important historical and scientific heritage of the University of Coimbra and Portugal, both nationally and internationally.
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Генсицький, М. В., та О. І. Кошелев. "МІЖПОПУЛЯЦІЙНА МІНЛИВІСТЬ ЗАБАРВЛЕННЯ ЧЕРЕПАШКИ РАВЛИКА ВЕЛИКОГО ЗВИЧАЙНОГО HELIX ALBESCENS ROSSMÄSSLER, 1839 (PULMONATA, HELICADAE) У ПІВНІЧНОЗАХІДНОМУ ПРИАЗОВ’Ї". Біорізноманіття, екологія та експериментальна біологія, № 21 (2019): 90–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/2708-583x.2019.21.11.
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The variability of any organism is highly dependent on environmental conditions. Morphological parameters of living organisms are determined by the genetic constitution of the animal, as well as formed under the influence of the environment, where climatic factors play an important role. Thus, the shell features of land-based mollusks are reliable indicators of the environmental conditions in which animals develop. Malacology has accumulated a large amount of factual material from various species of gastropods, which confirms this position. The article deals with the polymorphism on the striped shell of Helixalbescens terrestrial mollusks in the northwest og the Azov region. In the course of the research, the frequency of each morph in the sample was estimated as well as the average number of morphs (μ), the frequency of rare morphs (h), and the similarity of the samples according to the phenotype (r) was calculated. All 11 morphs were found in all populations of H. albescens from urban habitats. Three main morphs (12345, 1(23)45, 12045) were present in all studied samplings. The occurrence of rare morphs was different in urbanized and unbuilt biotopes. For example, morph 123 (45) was found only in urban biotopes, morph 12 (345) – only in the city and at point 9. The dominant morphs are 12345, 1(23)45, to which 22.6% and 32.9% of 1058 specimens or hollow shells respectively belonged. The indicator of intra-population diversity μ varied within rather narrow limits both in urbanized (from 4,899 to 7,581) and in unburied biotopes (from 4,152 to 6,697). In total, among 1058 shells and 10 samplings, 11 morphs were registered. The coloring of the shells of H. albescens differs in a considerable variety both in natural and in urbanized biotopes.
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Bochud, Estée, David Haberthür, Ruslan Hlushchuk, and Eike Neubert. "A new Diancta species of the family Diplommatinidae (Cyclophoroidea) from Vanua Levu Island, Fiji." ZooKeys 1073 (November 29, 2021): 1–12. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1073.73241.
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A new species of Diancta of the staircase snail family Diplommatinidae is described from Mt. Savusavu, Vanua Levu Island, Fiji. Due to its left coiling shell and a constriction before the last whorl, it is placed in the genus Diancta. Micro-CT imaging reveals two apertural teeth and an inner lamella that is situated at the zone of constriction. The shell abruptly changes coiling direction by 45 degrees before the last whorl. Up to now, this coiling modus had not yet been documented for any species of Diplommatinidae from the Fiji Islands.
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Thiengo, Silvana C., Jucicleide Ramos-de-Souza, Guilherme M. Silva, et al. "Parasitism of terrestrial gastropods by medically-important nematodes in Brazil." Frontiers in Veterinary Science 9 (November 17, 2022). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.1023426.
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An ample variety of parasitic associations are found between mollusks and nematodes, in which the mollusks may act as intermediate, paratenic or definitive hosts. Some free-living nematodes, in particular those of the order Rhabditida, are also found frequently in terrestrial mollusks. The present study reviews the results of the parasitological testing on samples of terrestrial mollusks conducted at the Brazilian National Reference Laboratory for Schistosomiasis and Malacology between 2008 and 2021. The samples were supplied primarily by the public health authorities from the different regions of Brazil, but also by research institutions and general population. The mollusks were processed individually and the obtained larvae were identified from their morphology and, whenever necessary, by molecular analysis. A total of 1,919 service orders were registered during the period, including 19,758 mollusk specimens collected from 23 of the 26 Brazilian states, as well as the Federal District, totalizing 145 municipalities. There was a marked predominance of the synanthropic species that are widely distributed in Brazil—Achatina fulica (87.08%), Bulimulus tenuissimus (4.18%), Bradybaena similaris (2.06%), and Sarasinula linguaeformis (1.50%). Of the 16,750 terrestrial mollusks examined, nematodes were recorded in 1,308 service orders, with the predominance of the superfamily Metastrongyloidea, in 616 service orders. They included Angiostrongylus cantonensis, rat lungworm, which was found in 252 samples, and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in 145 samples. Free-living nematodes were found in 952 samples, Ancylostoma caninum and Cruzia tentaculata (previously identified as Strongyluris sp.) in one and 275 samples, respectively, and other parasites in 210 samples (not identified). The results highlight the diversity of the associations between nematodes and terrestrial mollusks in Brazil, in particular invasive and synanthropic species, with emphasis on the giant African land snail, Achatina fulica. They demonstrate the prominent role of this species of mollusk in the transmission of medically-important nematodes, which affect the health of both humans and animals, in particular eosinophilic meningitis, which is caused by Angiostrongylus cantonensis. This reinforces the need for more studies, and justify the growing demand for information as well as parasitological diagnosis of this mollusk, given its wide distribution in Brazil and its impact as an urban pest.
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Antoine, Pierre, Nicole Limondin‐Lozouet, Julie Dabkowski, et al. "Last interglacial in western Europe: 20 years of multidisciplinary research on the Eemian (MIS 5e) calcareous tufa sequence at Caours (Somme basin, France) – a review." Boreas, April 25, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12654.
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The calcareous tufa sequence and associated Palaeolithic site of Caours were discovered in 2002 during a test‐pit campaign aimed at identifying last interglacial (MIS 5e) archives in the fluvial terrace system of the Somme basin, northern France. The presence of an outstanding stratigraphical succession with four in situ Palaeolithic layers within the tufa sequence has motivated archaeological excavations of the site since 2005. The first malacological studies and U‐series ages quickly showed that the sequence was mainly deposited during the Eemian interglacial (MIS 5e). After 20 years of investigations, we propose here a summary of this multidisciplinary research project including stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochronology, geochemistry, malacology, mammals, palaeovegetation and archaeology. By combining 25 dates obtained by U‐series, ESR/U‐series, TL and OSL methods, the Caours calcareous tufa sequence is securely dated to the Eemian (123.1±2.8 ka). Based on the summary of the whole information, we propose a robust and detailed reconstruction of the modification of the valley environments between the Late Saalian and the Early Weichselian. At the scale of northwestern Europe, Caours provides a reference terrestrial molluscs record for the Eemian interglacial, including the climatic optimum, that is also described in the same layers by δ18O and δ13C analyses on calcite and by mammal remains. Moreover, the 300‐m‐long transect crossing the fluvial terrace covered by the tufa sequence and the bottom valley formation, combined with the chronology established from U‐series and OSL ages, shows that the incision of the present‐day valley, leading to the setting of the Very Low Terrace, was achieved during the first stages of the Early Weichselian (MIS 5d–5c). From an archaeological point of view, the configuration of the Caours site is unique at the scale of western Europe and demonstrates the adaptation of Neandertals to a forested environment and to fully temperate conditions during the Eemian.