Publications by authors named "Ana M Echeverry"
The increasing activity in morphological studies has provided new tools to analyses the shape quantitatively, these quantitative measurements allow the researcher to examine the variation in shape and perform analysis to examine the quantitative differences among the species shapes, where geometric morphometrics has rendered great results in the last years. This study was focused on assessing the morphometric variation between populations of of the family Lottidae, an abundant group of gastropods in the rocky ecosystems of Bahía Málaga and Isla Gorgona (Colombian Pacific). This family has a high morphological diversity, making the identification of some morphotypes problematic work.
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- Cone snails are notable for their ecological diversity and toxicity, but current species identification relies heavily on shell morphology, which can be misleading due to similar traits across different species.
- This study focuses on the phylogeny of cone snails from the Cabo Verde archipelago using mitochondrial genomes, revealing two main clades: one that includes Kalloconus and Trovaoconus, and another containing a paraphyletic Lautoconus.
- The findings suggest low genetic divergence between Kalloconus and island species of Trovaoconus, indicating the potential for synonymizing the two, while also highlighting that Lautoconus is not a single lineage but paraphyletic.