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SUBMITTER: Maxwell SJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6684565 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maxwell Stephen J SJ Dekkers Aart M AM Rymer Tasmin L TL Bradley C Congdon
ZooKeys 20190729
This paper defines a new crown clade Neostromboidea to separate the Strombidae, Rostellariidae, and Seraphsidae from their sister families Struthiolariidae and Aporrhaidae. There is significant value to understanding evolutionary processes within Stromboidea to recognise the universal similarity in the position of the eye on the end of peduncles and a diminished cephalic tentacle that arises from the middle to the end on that peduncle. This is in contrast to other members of the Stromboidea wher ...[more]