TY - JOUR
AU - JELNES, JENS, ERIK
AB - Abstract Horizontal starch gel electrophoresis was used to score mobilities of seven different enzymes in species of Bulinus from North and West Africa. An account of the intra- and inter-population variation observed was given. Based on the data obtained it was suggested that enzymic data should be used as taxonomic characters in parallel with morphological and anatomical characters. It is suggested that enzymic characters could be used to place taxa into synonymy if the data are collected in such a way that one can write up an enzyme profile for the single individual. The nine taxa of Bulinus known to occur in North and West Africa were revised, the taxon B. jousseaumei was synonymized with B. globosus, and the two taxa B. guernei and B. rohlfsi were synonymized with B. truncatus. As a result of the revision only six species could be recognized as valid from the area, these being B. forskalii, B. globosus, B. senegalensis, B. truncatus, B. ugandae and B. umbilicatus. 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TI - Experimental taxonomy of Bulinus (Gastropoda: Planorbidae): the West and North African species reconsidered, based upon an electrophoretic study of several enzymes per individual
JO - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
DO - 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01327.x
DA - 1986-05-01
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SP - 1
EP - 26
VL - 87
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