Being that Texas has no natural habitat for this species, to what location
is it indigenous? Tampico? Veracruz?
Les
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Fabio Moretzsohn
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] New and renamed Florida Echinolittorina
Hi Leslie
I received the paper from David Reid yesterday but haven't had the time to
read it, but he told me that the most common species in Texas, which has
received many names, including E. interrupta is what he described as a new
species, Echinolittorina placida Reid, 2009. I don't have the paper here at
home, so I can't tell much more. The paper is very comprehensive, with
illustrations of all species of Echinolittorina in the Western Atlantic, a
key the species, lots of SEMs of radulae and line drawings of the
morphological characters used, a phylogeny based on molecular data, a
biogeographical analysis and how these hard substrate species colonized and
moved over a wide geographic area in a short time (about 100 years),
colonizing the newly available man-made hard substrata (jetties, sea walls,
etc), and more! At the end there is a useful list of all taxa discussed and
how they relate to the species considered valid based on all the data
available.
Perhaps Marlo or Harry will be able to fill in the details about the species
of Echinolittorina occurring in Texas.
Cheers,
Fabio
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On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Leslie A. Crnkovic <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
Any Idea as to how Reid separates the Texas fauna?
Leslie A. Crnkovic
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