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- February 6, 2008
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Camaenids ain't camaenids
by Snail in A Snail's Eye View
If you see a snail in the Queensland rainforests or sandstone gorges near Alice Springs, the chances are it will be a camaenid. Australia has hundreds of species, many of them big and strikingly coloured. But despite their size and splendor, they're seriously undervalued as a subject for study. And now it appears that what we thought we knew about their evolutionary history is mostly … wrong. Texts will tell you that Camaenidae has a disjunct distribution. It occurs in Australia, eastern and south-eastern Asia, central America (including the Caribbean) and northern South America.... Read more »
C Wade, C Hudelot, A Davison, F Naggs, & P B Mordan. (2007) Molecular phylogeny of the helicoid land snails (Pulmonata: Stylommatophora: Helicoidea), with special emphasis on the Camaenidae. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 73(4), 411-415. DOI: 10.1093/mollus/eym030
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