The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’

The land snails collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacifíco’ (CCP), a Spanish expedition to South and Central America from 1862–1866, are restudied and revised. The historical context of the expedition and the study of its collected material are described. Biographical data is given for the m...

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Autores principales: Breure, Abraham S.H., Araujo, Rafael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2017
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Biogeography
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5354113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28316885
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3065
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description The land snails collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacifíco’ (CCP), a Spanish expedition to South and Central America from 1862–1866, are restudied and revised. The historical context of the expedition and the study of its collected material are described. Biographical data is given for the main persons involved. The land snails were previously studied by Joaquin Hidalgo between 1867 and 1893. A total of 3,470 specimens belonging to 211 species are treated in this paper. Of 34 species mentioned by Hidalgo is his catalogue, the corresponding material could not be located. Bulimus visendus Hidalgo, 1869 is now placed in the genus Synapterpes Pilsbry, 1896, a new combination.
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spelling pubmed-53541132017-03-17 The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’ Breure, Abraham S.H. Araujo, Rafael PeerJ Biogeography The land snails collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacifíco’ (CCP), a Spanish expedition to South and Central America from 1862–1866, are restudied and revised. The historical context of the expedition and the study of its collected material are described. Biographical data is given for the main persons involved. The land snails were previously studied by Joaquin Hidalgo between 1867 and 1893. A total of 3,470 specimens belonging to 211 species are treated in this paper. Of 34 species mentioned by Hidalgo is his catalogue, the corresponding material could not be located. Bulimus visendus Hidalgo, 1869 is now placed in the genus Synapterpes Pilsbry, 1896, a new combination. PeerJ Inc. 2017-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5354113/ /pubmed/28316885 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3065 Text en ©2017 Breure and Araujo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
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The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title_full The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title_fullStr The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title_full_unstemmed The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title_short The Neotropical land snails (Mollusca, Gastropoda) collected by the ‘Comisión Científica del Pacífico’
title_sort neotropical land snails (mollusca, gastropoda) collected by the ‘comisión científica del pacífico’
topic Biogeography
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5354113/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28316885
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3065
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