Unraveling cryptic invasion of a freshwater snail in Chile based on molecular and morphological data

@article{Collado2016UnravelingCI,
  title={Unraveling cryptic invasion of a freshwater snail in Chile based on molecular and morphological data},
  author={Gonzalo A Collado},
  journal={Biodiversity and Conservation},
  year={2016},
  volume={26},
  pages={567-578}
}
Cryptic species may cause biological invasions to be overlooked leading to underestimation of the potential impacts of invaders on the new ecosystems. Identification of freshwater snails is challenging because of the scarcity of discriminative morphological characters and the limited taxonomic knowledge of some taxa. Here, molecular and morphological analyses were performed to investigate the identity of viable populations of the genus Physa in aquatic ecosystems of different basins in northern… 
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