New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Takumi Saito

doi:10.15468/mm7yye

New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Citation

Saito T (2021). New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Version 1.4. Biodiversity Data Journal. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/mm7yye accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-03-21.

Description

This data is the occurrence information of Viviparus sclateri specimens from the Tomotaro Iwakawa collection in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, which was examined in the paper, "Saito T, Kagawa O. 2020. New insights from museum specimens: a case of Viviparidae (Caenogastropoda: Mollusca) in Iwakawa’s collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo. Biodiversity Data Journal, in press".

Purpose

To deposit the information of published paper.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Our investigation was conducted on Viviparus sclateri in the Iwakawa's collection preserved in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.

Sampling

The authors manually explored the museum's collections from the relevant range with the help of the curator, as the Iwakawa's collection was not fully organized.

Method steps

The locality information of specimens was obtained from the labels with the specimens. The Iwakawa's list (Iwakawa, 1919) was also consulted when necessary.
Each specimen was examined and re-identified by the author based on the diagnostic characteristics. In particular, the original descriptions of Japanese viviparid species and following references provided principal criteria for comparison and identification: Annandale (1921), Okada and Kurasawa 1950, Habe 1973, Masuda and Uchiyama (2004), Kihira et al. (2009), Hirano et al. (2015), Hirano et al. (2019a) and Hirano et al. (2019b).

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

We examined 98 specimens, 17 occurrences from nine localities.

Bibliographic Citations

Annandale (1921) Zoological results of a tour in the Far East. The viviparous water-snail of Lake Biwa, Japan. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 6 (7): 397‑401. - https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47681678
Habe T (1973) Mollusca. In: Ueno M (Ed.) The late Tamiji Kawamura freshwater biology of Japan, enlarged and revised edition. Hokuryu-kan, Tokyo, 309-341 pp. [In Japanese with English title]. -
Hirano T, Saito T, Chiba S (2015) Phylogeny of freshwater viviparid snails in Japan. Journal of Molluscan Studies 81 (4): 435‑441. - https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyv019
Hirano T, Saito T, Tsunamoto Y, Koseki J, Ye B, Do VT, Miura O, Suyama Y, Chiba S (2019a) Enigmatic incongruence between mtDNA and nDNA revealed by multi-locus phylogenomic analyses in freshwater snails. Scientific Reports 9 (1). - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42682-0
Hirano T, Saito T, Tsunamoto Y, Koseki J, Prozorova L, Do VT, Matsuoka K, Nakai K, Chiba S (2019b) Role of ancient lakes in genetic and phenotypic diversification of freshwater snails. Molecular Ecology 28 (23): 5032‑5051. - https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15272
Iwakawa T (1919) Catalogue of Japanese Mollusca in the Natural history department, Tokyo Imperial Museum. Tokyo Imperial Museum, Tokyo, 375 pp. [In Japanese]. -
Kihira H, Matsuda M, Uchiyama R (2009) Freshwater Molluscs of Japan 1: Freshwater Molluscs of Lake Biwa and the Yodo River, revised ver. Pisces, Tokyo, 159 pp. [In Japanese]. -
Masuda O, Uchiyama R (2004) Freshwater mollusks of Japan 2: freshwater mollusks of Japan, including brackish water species. Pisces, Tokyo, 240 pp. [In Japanese]. -
Okada Y, Kurasawa H (1950) A study of Viviparidae in Japan. In: Okada Y (Ed.) Studies of fishery animals (1). Japan publishing cooperation, Tokyo, 141-165 pp. [In Japanese]. - https://doi.org/10.11501/2470294

Contacts

Takumi Saito
originator
position: JSPS Research Fellowships
Tohoku University
JP
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/tsmollusca/home?authuser=1
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Takumi Saito
metadata author
position: JSPS Research Fellowships
Tohoku University
JP
email: saito.zef@gmail.com
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/tsmollusca/home?authuser=1
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Takumi Saito
administrative point of contact
position: JSPS Research Fellowships
Tohoku University
JP
homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/tsmollusca/home?authuser=1
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IfRZogUAAAAJ&hl=ja