Victoria Araiza Gómez

Instituto Politécnico Nacional-Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas

This study explores the potential of continental gastropods as bioindicators of human impact within a subtropical region and contributes to the knowledge of the diversity of this group. Their limited ability to disperse makes them effective in reflecting local environmental conditions. This study aimed to assess species abundance in an ecological g...

Se reportan por primera vez para el estado de Sinaloa dos especies de babosas terrestres no nativas, la asignación taxonómica se realizó empleando caracteres morfológicos y un marcador mitocondrial. La distribución y abundancia de Sarasinula plebeia sugiere que esta especie se ha establecido, mientras que Deroceras laeve se encontró como ejemplares...

This is the first record of two non-native terrestrial slug species from Sinaloa, Mexico. Deroceras laeve and Sarasinula plebeia were collected between 2019 and 2022 in Concordia and Mazatlan Municipalities (north-western Mexico). The external morphology and anatomic features of the dissected specimens coincide with the descriptions of each species...

Knowledge of invasive terrestrial gastropods species in Mexico, and their potential impacts, is practically unknown. We document in this study, the occurrence of the large invasive slug Arion vulgaris Moquin-Tandon, 1855 for the first time in Mexico and only the third time in North America. In addition, we also report Arion (Kobeltia) intermedius N...

We describe a new helicoidean semi-slug based on morphological and molecular evidence. The new species belongs to the genus Bunnya and is described from a small agricultural area in Zinacantepec, San Juan de las Huertas, México. The genus Bunnya is externally similar to Xanthonyx, another Helicoidea genus; both genera have similar shell and body fo...

We describe a new helicoidean semi-slug based on morphological and molecular evidence. The new species belongs to the genus Bunnya and is described from a small agricultural area in Zinacantepec, San Juan de las Huertas, México. The genus Bunnya is externally similar to Xanthonyx, another Helicoidea genus; both genera have similar shell and body fo...

We describe a new helicoidean semi-slug based on morphological and molecular evidence. The new species belongs to the genus Bunnya and is described from a small agricultural area in Zinacantepec, San Juan de las Huertas, México. The genus Bunnya is externally similar to Xanthonyx, another Helicoidea genus; both genera have similar shell and body fo...

This study reports the current distribution in Mexico of Deroceras laeve (Müller, 1774) and D. invadens Reise, Hutchinson, Schunack and Schlitt, 2011, both previously recorded, and the first records of D. reticulatum (Müller, 1774) in this country. The taxonomic identifications were made on the basis of morphology and DNA sequences of a fragment of...

An introduced slug, Boettgerillo pollens Simroth, 1912, was found both in the Pedregal de San Angel Ecological Reserve, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City and Teopancingo, Puebla. Although this slug is native to Europe, it has been recently recorded from various locations around the world. Through dissection, the diagnostic characters were identifie...

Estudios previos sobre la diversidad de gasterópodos del municipio de Atoyac demostraron la presencia de 37 especies de gasterópodos terrestres. Sin embargo, debido a la desaparición del paisaje natural por el incremento en los últimos años de cultivos cafeteros y cañeros en el municipio y a la falta en México de los ejemplares referidos en los dif...