More evidence of speciation and dispersal across the Antarctic Polar Front through molecular systematics of Southern Ocean Limatula (Bivalvia: Limidae)

• Published in: Polar Biology
• Main Authors: Page, Tim, Linse, Katrin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2002
• Subjects: Antarctic; Griffith; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Polar Biology
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10072/22689; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-002-0414-7

The previously unclear taxonomic status of the high-Antarctic bivalve Limatula ovalis Thiele, 1912 and the sub-Antarctic L. pygmaea (Philippi, 1845) was investigated using molecular techniques (18S rDNA, 16S rDNA, ITS-1). L. ovalis and L. pygmaea were recovered as sister taxa, and L. hodgsoni (Smith...