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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Lima SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4857036 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lima Silvio Felipe Barbosa SF Christoffersen Martin Lindsey ML
ZooKeys 20160427 585
After an extensive search for the type specimens of Caecum floridanum Stimpson, 1851, we believe that these specimens may have been either lost or destroyed in the Chicago fire (1871). This paper presents a redescription of the species and a neotype is designated based on material from the type locality (Florida). Protoconch and growth stages of Caecum floridanum are described and illustrated herein. The teleoconch IV of Caecum floridanum is characterized by strong, wide, low, rounded, closely a ...[more]