Land snail biogeography and endemism in south-eastern Africa: Implications for the Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany biodiversity hotspot
Fig 5
Delineation of areas of endemism (AOEs) for land snails in south-eastern Africa based on the strict consensus tree of parsimony analysis of endemicity (PAE).
Four of the five clades in the area cladogram harbour more than two sympatric endemic species, and hence identified as AOEs, together with two OGUs each with two narrow endemics with congruent ranges. All six AOEs are shaded in the map on a grey scale according to the number of endemic species, given below for each in brackets (darker shades denotes high endemism; see Table 3 for lists of endemic species): A—Soutpansberg (2), B—Wolkberg (2), C—Extended Maputaland (4), D—Natal (6), E—Extended Pondoland (7), and F—Albany-Knysna. The MPA hotspot boundary is reprinted from Hoffman et al. [26] (public domain).