• Cave-dwelling gastropods (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of Brazil: state of the art and conservation 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Silva, Fernanda Santos; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas; Cunha, Carlo Magenta; Bichuette, Maria Elina (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-07-26)
      An up-to-date list of exclusively cave-dwelling gastropod species recorded in Brazil is presented including updated taxonomy, detailed geographic information, and illustration of types. The list includes 18 cave-exclusive (troglobitic) gastropods encompassing 15 land and three freshwater species, with the status of further species pending additional studies. Their unusual morphology and diversity ...
    • The endemic land snails of the Fernando de Archipelago, Brasil 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas; Christensen, Carl C.; Freitas, André V. L.; Miranda, Marcel S.; Passos, Flávio D. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2022)
      Fernando de Noronha (henceforth ‘Noronha’) is an oceanic archipelago of volcanic origin, located ~350 km off the northeast coast of Brasil (Fig. 1). The eponymous main island was an important midway port in the Portuguese exploitation of Brasilian resources during the 16th and 17th centuries (Lins & Silva, 2013). The island was also briefly occupied by the British, French and Dutch. It also ...
    • iNaturalist as a tool in the study of tropical molluscs 

      Rosa, Rafael masson; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas; Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-05-05)
      Although terrestrial gastropods are remarkably diverse, our knowledge of them is still lacking, especially for species from the Global South. As such, new tools to help researchers collect data on these organisms are very welcome. With this in mind, we investigated Brazilian observations on iNaturalist to assess the feasibility of the data available on the platform as a basis for studies on the ...
    • Molecular phylogeny of the Orthalicoidea land snails: Further support and surprises 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Silva, Fernanda Santos; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas; Köhler, Frank; Slapcinsky, John; Breure, Abraham S. H. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-07-26)
      The superfamily Orthalicoidea comprises approximately 2,000 species of terrestrial gastropods, mostly concentrated in the Neotropics but also present in southern Africa and Oceania. We provide a multi-marker molecular phylogeny of this superfamily, reassessing its family- and genus-level classification. We exclude two families from the group, Odontostomidae and Vidaliellidae, transferring them to ...
    • Publication practice in Taxonomy: Global inequalities and potential bias against negative results 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas; Rands, Douglas; Tomotani, Barbara mizumo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-06-01)
      There is broad recognition by practicing taxonomists that the field is going through a crisis, which has been dubbed the “taxonomic impediment”. There are many aspects involved in said crisis, but publication practices in taxonomy are often neglected or relegated to the backseat. We provide an initial foray into this topic via a worldwide survey with taxonomists, spanning all botanical and ...
    • The Rapid Expansion of the Jumping Snail Ovachlamys fulgens in Brazil 

      Rosa, Rafael masson; Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Teixeira, Larissa; Bornschein, Marcos ricardo; Cavallari, Daniel caracanhas (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-29)
      The exotic Japanese jumping snail, Ovachlamys fulgens, was first recorded in Santa Catarina state, Brazil, in 2013. Based on data gathered from the literature, natural history collections, field samplings, and the iNaturalist platform, we assess its current distribution in the country. Our data show that the jumping snail has had a dramatic range expansion since its introduction, reaching six ...