Zoosyst. Evol. 100 (1) 2024, 9-14 | DOI 10.3897/zse.100.110105 ae BERLIN Pilsbrylia, a dextral-shelled door snail from South America (Gastropoda, Clausiliidae) Rodrigo B. Salvador’, Abraham S. H. Breure*>:4 The Arctic University Museum of Norway, UiT — The Arctic University of Norway, Lars Thorings veg 10, 9006, Tromso, Norway Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium Invertebrate Division, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, South Kensington, SW7 5BD, London, UK Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR, Leiden, Netherlands FW NM fF https://zoobank. org/98538B32-8A69-40E9-85CE-1421B8CO60E4E Corresponding author: Rodrigo B. Salvador (salvador.rodrigo.b@gmail.com) Academic editor: Frank Kohler # Received 26 July 2023 Accepted 3 September 2023 @ Published 26 January 2024 Abstract The land snail genus Pilsbrylia Hylton Scott, 1952 has been recently shown to not belong to the superfamily to which it was orig- inally assigned (1.e., the Orthalicoidea), instead pointing out a relationship with the Clausilioidea. In this study, we included the type species of the genus in a multi-marker molecular phylogenetic framework to reassess its family-level classification. Our results show that Pilsbrylia belongs to family Clausiliidae (known as ‘door snails’) and more specifically, to subfamily Peruiniinae. This family is unique among stylommatophorans for consisting almost exclusively of animals with sinistral (left-handed) shells, whilst Pilsbrylia has a “typical” dextral shell. Key Words chirality, Eupulmonata, Orthalicoidea, Peruiniinae, Stylommatophora Introduction The South American genus Pilsbrylia Hylton Scott, 1952 contains three species, which inhabit areas in southern Brazil and northern Argentina (Simone 2018): Pilsbrylia paradoxa Hylton Scott, 1952 (the type spe- cies), P. hyltonae Fernandez & Rumi, 1980, and P. dalli Simone, 2018 (Fig. 1). Members of this genus have high- spired and narrow shells and the shell aperture bears a number of teeth and lamellae. The shells are morpho- logically similar to the members of family Cyclodontin- idae (which was formerly part of Odontostomidae; see Salvador et al. 2023 for the revised classification within superfamily Orthalicoidea), in particular to members of genera such as Clessinia Doering, 1875 and Cyclodontina H. Beck, 1837. Thus, since its description, Pi/sbrylia has been classified in that family (e.g., Hylton Scott 1952; Breure 1974; Fernandez and Rumi 1980; Schileyko 1999; Cuezzo et al. 2013; Simone 2018). The molecular phylogenetic study of Breure and Romero (2012) showed that Pilsbrylia did not belong in Cyclodontinidae and those authors proposed the genus was instead the sister taxon to all other Orthal- icoidea. A more recent phylogenetic study (Salvador et al. 2023), showed that Pilsbrylia did not belong in Orthalicoidea at all, being instead related to the Clausi- liidae, or door snails. That was a surprising result, con- sidering that the door snails typically have sinistral Shells (1.e., a shell that “coils” counter-clockwise or, when seen with its aperture facing the observer and the Spire top pointing upwards, a shell whose aperture is on the left-hand side). Furthermore, the two branches of Clausiliidae present in the Americas are restricted to the Caribbean (subfamily Neniinae) and northwest South America (subfamily Peru- iniinae) (Uit de Weerd and Gittenberger 2013). Thus, the genus Pilsbrylia is rather geographically removed from the family’s range. Copyright Sa/vador, R.B. & Breure, A.S.H. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 10 Figure 1. Shells of the three known species of Pilsbrylia in apertural, lateral, and dorsal views. A. P. paradoxa, holotype MLP-Ma 11337 (Museo de La Plata, Argentina); B. P. hyltonae, lectotype MLP-Ma 3991-1; C. P. dalli, holotype MZSP 133161 (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil). Scale bar: 5 mm. In the present study we include Pilsbrylia in a phylo- genetic framework of the Clausiliidae to test if it really belongs to this family and, if so, assess how it 1s related to other South American door snails. zse.pensoft.net Salvador, R.B. & Breure, A.S.H.: Reclassification of Pi/sbrylia in Clausiliidae Materials and methods DNA sequences of Pilsbrylia paradoxa used in previous Orthalicoidea-focused studies (Breure and Romero 2012; Salvador et al. 2023) were used for the present analysis. They are available on GenBank under accession num- bers JF514745 (28S) and JF514687 (H3) and stem from a voucher specimen previously housed in the collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina (regis- tration number IFML-MOLL BD316, collected in north- ern Argentina, Salta province, km 1650 of Salta-Jujuy highway) but now housed in the Instituto de Biodiver- sidad Neotropical (IBN) of the Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, Argentina. No further specimen of Pi/sbrylia spp. preserved in ethanol and suitable for DNA extraction could be found in the present study. The sequences of P. paradoxa were included in the phylogenetic framework for the family Clausiliidae estab- lished in the study of Uit de Weerd and Gittenberger (2013). That study included a reasonable sample of South Ameri- can (subfamily Neniinae) taxa across two distinct clades (tribes), which enables us to test the phylogenetic position of Pilsbrylia. Later molecular phylogenetic studies with Clausiliidae focused on Eurasian taxa (e.g., Hausdorf and Neiber 2022) and data from them was not included here. A total of 67 species of Clausiliidae, belonging to all sub- families and almost all tribes, was part of the analysis. Five Species were selected as outgroup representing the families Cerionidae, Chondrinidae, Enidae, Rhytididae, and Urocop- tidae (data from Uit de Weerd 2008; Uit de Weerd and Git- tenberger 2013; Saadi and Wade 2019). A complete list of the species used 1n the analysis, with locality data and Gen- Bank accession numbers is given in the Suppl. material 1. Data from three nuclear markers were used in the present phylogenetic analysis, following Uit de Weerd and Gitten- berger (2013): partial 28S rRNA gene (ca. 1700 bp), partial H3 (histone 3) gene (ca. 270 bp), and partial H4 (histone 4) gene (ca. 260 bp). Information on primers and PCR proto- cols can be found in Uit de Weerd and Gittenberger (2013); for Pilsbrylia, see Breure and Romero (2012). The genetic sequences were aligned through the MUS- CLE plugin (Edgar 2004) in Geneious Prime (v.2023.0.4, Biomatters Ltd.), using default settings (1.e., optimised for accuracy). The resulting alignments were visually proofed for inconsistencies. The alignment of the 28S marker was run through Gblocks (Talavera and Castresa- na 2007), using the least restrictive settings, in order to eliminate poorly-aligned or data-deficient positions that could introduce noise into the analysis. The alignments were then concatenated for a single phylogenetic analysis, with each marker being treated as an individual partition. A Bayesian inference phylogenetic analysis was per- formed through MrBayes (v.3.2.7; Ronquist et al. 2012) via the CIPRES Science Gateway (v.3.3; Miller et al. 2015). Two concurrent analyses, each with 4 Markov chains of 80 million generations (the first 20% discarded as “burn-in’), were run with the default priors, nst = 6, Zoosyst. Evol. 100 (1) 2024, 9-14 rates = invgamma, temperature parameter = 0.1, sampling every 1,000 generations. Substitution model parameters were unlinked across the markers (28S, H3, and H4). MCMC convergence was assessed using the standard de- viation of split frequencies (<0.01) and the potential scale reduction factor PSRF (~1.0), as well as by examining the trace plots (Ronquist et al. 2009). Results The concatenated sequences of the three markers (af- ter trimming the 28S marker using Gblocks) contained 2172 bp. The total-evidence tree resulting from the Bayesian analysis contained 73 species (including 0.75 11 (0.68 <=! Macedonica pangaionica —S> 0.76 Pontophaedusa funiculum 1 0.54 11 Pilsbrylia paradoxa and the outgroup) and is shown here in simplified format, with the branches of non-immediate interest collapsed (Fig. 2). The full tree can be seen in the Suppl. material 2. All subfamilies of Clausiliidae are strongly support- ed (posterior probability PP=1), except for Serrulininae, which 1s paraphyletic (Fig. 2). As expected in a clade in- flated by family-level names, many of the supposed tribes were recovered as para- or polyphyletic (e.g., Cochlodini- ni, Delimini; Suppl. material 2), as already noted by Uit de Weerd and Gittenberger (2013). When also consider- ing the existence of several monotypic tribes (e.g., Garn- ieriini, Strumosini), the Clausiliidae would benefit from a clean-up of names on the tribe level, as many could easily be synonymized if supported by further research. ef Baleini + Clausiliini Oe <] Acrotomini + Strigileuxinini | Filosini + Mentissoideini 0.68 Olympicola olympica Olympicolini . —