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Laboratory and Field Culture of Larvae of The Slipper Limpet, Crepidula fornicata
Published on: January 5, 2024
[Land snails from the Viñales limestone highlands, Pinar del Río, Cuba]
Wilfredo Oliva-Olivera1, Raimundo Real
1Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba. oliva_olivera@hotmail.com
Abstract:
The land snails inhabiting the limestone highlands in Cuba are poorly known. From field surveys, traditional collection catalogues, and the literature, we list 136 species, 49 genera and 19 families, 90% of the species endemic to Cuba; only five species are non-indigenous of the Cuban archipelago. Annulariidae and Urocoptidae are the most represented families, and Chondrothyra and Liocallonia are the genera with the highest number of species. Forty-four species of this list were absent from the consulted collections. We provide 16 new records of species in localities of the region; and 12 species seem to have become locally extinct.
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