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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-02-29
Page range: 587–589
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Severnsia strombeulima n. gen. & sp. from Hawaii (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda: Eulimidae)

Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Invertebrate Zoology, 2559 Puesta del Sol, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, USA.
Mollusca Gastropoda Caenogastropoda Eulimidae

Abstract

The malacofauna of Hawaii is rather well-known, owing to Kay (1979) and Severns (2011). Both works stand out because they include a large number of the generally under-represented micromollusks (<5 mm). Here a striking new genus and species of a microsnail is reported from that region.

 

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