Polymorphism of the Introduced Snail Cepaea nemoralis (Gastropoda, Helicidae) from two Distant Parts of Eastern Europe: Accidental Similarity or Regularity?

• Дата: 2021
• Автори: Gural-Sverlova, N. V., Gural, R. I.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: English
• Опубліковано: Publishing House "Akademperiodyka" of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 2021
• Теми: land mollusks; grove snail; phenotypic composition; climatic selection; Western Ukraine; Moscow region; European Russia
• Онлайн доступ: https://ojs.akademperiodyka.org.ua/index.php/Zoodiversity/article/view/169
• Назва журналу: Journal Zoodiversity

The shell coloration of Cepaea nemoralis from Western Ukraine (Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, and Ternopil regions) and from the Moscow region of Russia was analyzed, in total, almost 6 thousand specimens from 32 sites. In the samples from the Moscow region, on average, there were half as many yellow shells...