| Title: | Discovering unknown Madagascar biodiversity : integrative taxonomy of raft spiders (Pisauridae: Dolomedes) |
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| Authors: | ID Yu, Kuang-Ping (Author)
ID Kuntner, Matjaž (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.16781
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  NIB - National Institute of Biology
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| Abstract: | Madagascar is a global biodiversity hotspot, but its biodiversity continues to be underestimated and understudied. Of raft spiders, genus Dolomedes Latreille, 1804, literature only reports two species on Madagascar. Our single expedition to humid forests of eastern and northern Madagascar, however, yielded a series of Dolomedes exemplars representing both sexes of five morphospecies. To avoid only using morphological diagnostics, we devised and tested an integrative taxonomic model for Dolomedes based on the unified species concept. The model first determines morphospecies within a morphometrics framework, then tests their validity via species delimitation using COI. It then incorporates habitat preferences, geological barriers, and dispersal related traits to form hypotheses about gene flow limitations. Our results reveal four new Dolomedes species that we describe from both sexes as Dolomedes gregoric sp. nov., D. bedjanic sp. nov., D. hydatostella sp. nov., and D. rotundus sp. nov. The range of D. kalanoro Silva & Griswold, 2013, now also known from both sexes, is expanded to eastern Madagascar. By increasing the known raft spider diversity from one valid species to five, our results merely scratch the surface of the true Dolomedes species diversity on Madagascar. Our integrative taxonomic model provides the framework for future revisions of raft spiders anywhere. |
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| Keywords: | raft spiders, integrative taxonomic model, Madagascar, biodiversity, integrative taxonomy, zoology |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 27.02.2024 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2024 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-60 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. 12, [art. no.] ǂe16781 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-18942  |
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| UDC: | 591 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2167-8359 |
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| DOI: | 10.7717/peerj.16781 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 189843203 |
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| Note: | Nasl. z nasl. zaslona;
Opis vira z dne 21. 3. 2024;
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 16.05.2024 |
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