Alejandra Rumi

Chilina iguazuensis (Gastropoda: Chilinidae), New Species From Iguazú National Park, Argentina (2008)

Alejandra Rumi

The Chilinidae comprises 16 species currently cited for Argentina, mostly distributed in Patagonia. All original descriptions of these species have been based on shell characters, and their internal...

First record of invasive snail melanoides tuberculatus (müller) (gastropoda: prosobranchia: thiaridae) for the iguazú river basin, Argentina ¿ Brazil. (2007)

Alejandra Rumi, Noelia S. Ferrando, Verónica Núñez

In this work is reported the first record of Melanoides tuberculatus in the Iguazú River basin (Argentina-Brazil). This species is native to southern Asia and was anthropogenically introduced to...

FRESHWATER GASTROPODA FROM ARGENTINA: SPECIES RICHNESS, DISTRIBUTION PATTERNS, AND AN EVALUATION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES (2006)

Alejandra Rumi, Verónica Núñez, Inés I. César, M. Andrea Roche, Mónica P. Tassara, ...

Few studies have dealt with the geographic distribution of freshwater snails in Argentina. The objectives of this study were to: (1) determine species and family richness and diversity patterns; (2)...

Freshwater gastropods from Del Plata Basin, Argentina. Checklist and new locality records (2006)

Alejandra Rumi, María Andrea Roche, Verónica Núñez

The greatest floral and faunal biodiversity estimated from Argentina -not including molluscs - is found in three subtropical forests belonging to the del Plata Basin, two of them at the northeastern...

The use of the polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism technique associated with the classical morphology for characterization of Lymnaea columella, L. viatrix, and L. diaphana (Mollusca: Lymnaeidae) (2004)

Carvalho,Omar S, Cardoso,Paula CM, Lira,Pollanah M, Rumi,Alejandra, Roche,Andrea, Berne,Elizabeth, ...

The specific identification of Lymnaeid snails is based on a comparison of morphological characters of the shell, radula, renal and reproductive organs. However, the identification is complicated by...