| Text | 466003 2022 Microcondylaea bonellii freshwater mussels conservation status neglected species Chronicle of an announced extinction Microcondylaea bonellii, the species not worth saving Nicoletta Riccardi, Tiziano Bo, Arthur E. Bogan, Karel Douda, Elsa Froufe, Duarte V. Gonc alves, Jasna Lajtner, Vanessa Modesto, Giuseppe A. Moro, Vincent Prie , Ronaldo Sousa, Spase Shumka, Ami lcar Teixeira, Maria Urban ska, Simone Varandas Manuel Lopes Lima Nicoletta Riccardi, CNR Water Research Institute, Verbania, Italy. nicolettarita.riccardi@cnr.it Tiziano Bo, NaturaStaf Hydrobiologist, Via Lunga, AT, Italy Arthur E Bogan, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC, United States Karel Douda, Department of Zoology and Fisheries, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague, Czech Republic Elsa Froufe, CIIMAR/CIMAR Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal Duarte V Gonc alves, CIIMAR/CIMAR Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto, Matosinhos, Portugal Jasna Lajtner, Faculty of Science, Division of Zoology, Department of Biology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia Vanessa Modesto, CNR Water Research Institute, Verbania, Italy. Giuseppe A Moro, Environmental Biologist, Udine, Italy Vincent Prie , Institut de Syste matique, E volution, Biodiversite ISYEB Museum National d Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universite , EPHE, Universite des Antilles, Paris, France Ronaldo Sousa, Department of Biology, CBMA Centre of Molecular and Environmental Biology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal Spase Shumka, Faculty of Biotechnology and Food, Agricultural University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania Ami lcar Teixeira, Centro de Investigac a o de Montanha CIMO , Instituto Polite cnico de Braganc a, Campus de Santa Apolo nia, Braganc a, Portugal Maria Urban ska, Department of Zoology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan , Poland Simone Varandas, Forestry Department, CITAB UTAD Centre for Research and Technology of Agro Environment and Biological Sciences, University of Tra s os Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal Manuel Lopes Lima, CIBIO/InBIO Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, Vaira o, Portugal Microcondylaea bonellii Fig. 1 was recently used to exemplify the pathway that brings neglected species to extinction Riccardi et al., 2021 . It is a freshwater mussel that belongs to one of the least studied Unionidae subfamilies, the Gonideinae Lopes Lima et al., 2017 . Species in this subfamily have suffered major declines, and almost half of the assessed Gonideinae species are currently listed as Near Threatened or Threatened IUCN, 2021 . This subfamily includes only three European species, Potomida acarnanica, P. littoralis and M. bonellii, all restricted to Southern Europe and all are poorly studied. Once populations extended from Switzerland to Greece with numerous populations, but currently M. bonellii is undergoing a strong and rapid decline all over its range. Declines or even disappearance of its populations caused the erosion of genetic diversity making it one of the European freshwater mussel species with the lowest genetic diversity Froufe et al., 2017 . The few remaining populations are so isolated that, in case of local extirpation, recolonization is unlikely. 30 Supplement Published version https //www.hawaii.edu/cowielab/issues.html Chronicle of an announced extinction Microcondylaea bonellii, the species not worth saving pdf Riccardi et al. Tentacle 30 Supplement.pdf Articolo in rivista IUCN/SSC Mollusc Specialist Group, Species Survival Commission, International Union for Conservation of Nature 2073 4514 Tentacle Online Tentacle Online Tentacle Online Tentacle. Online nicolettarita.riccardi RICCARDI NICOLETTA RITA |
