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Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
The gastropod Spiricella (Opisthobranchia, Umbraculidae) in the Recent Caribbean. A truly unexpected finding!

Participants in the publication
Silva, C.M. da (Author)
Dep. Geologia
 CEGUL
 Landau, B.M. (Author)

Summary
The first record of the genus Spiricella Rang & Des Moulins, 1828 is given for the Recent western Atlantic. Until now considered a monospecific genus, the Spiricella specimens from Abaco Island, Bahamas, Caribbean, are consistently different from the Recent and fossil shells from the eastern Atlantic and West Africa. Despite the paucity of morphological shell features typical for the genus, we consider these Caribbean shells a distinct specific taxon; Spiricella redferni nov. sp. The genus continues as elusive as ever, and despite this exciting new record and the great extension in geographical range for the genus, we still know nothing of the animal to which these shells belong, nor its ecology.

Date of Publication
2008

Where published
Veliger

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 0042-3211

Address
USA

Volume
50
Number
4

Number of pages
4
Starting page
305
Last page
308


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APA
Silva, C.M. da, Landau, B.M. , (2008). The gastropod Spiricella (Opisthobranchia, Umbraculidae) in the Recent Caribbean. A truly unexpected finding! . Veliger , 50, 305-308. ISSN 0042-3211. eISSN .

IEEE
Silva, C.M. da, Landau, B.M. , "The gastropod Spiricella (Opisthobranchia, Umbraculidae) in the Recent Caribbean. A truly unexpected finding! " in Veliger , vol. 50, pp. 305-308, 2008.

BIBTEX
@article{39852, author = {Silva, C.M. da and Landau, B.M. }, title = {The gastropod Spiricella (Opisthobranchia, Umbraculidae) in the Recent Caribbean. A truly unexpected finding! }, journal = {Veliger }, year = 2008, pages = {305-308}, volume = 50 }