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New records of freshwater and land snails from southern Chiapas, Mexico, in Colección Nacional de Moluscos (the National Collection of Molluscs)
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Master Degree student, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, ECOSUR, Mexico
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Departmento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
These authors had equal contribution to this work
Submission date: 2024-05-07
Final revision date: 2024-07-13
Acceptance date: 2024-07-30
Online publication date: 2024-09-06
Publication date: 2024-09-06
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Edna Naranjo-García
Departmento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Tercer Circuito Universitario S/N, 04510, Mexico, Mexico
Folia Malacol. 2024;32(3):167-185
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ABSTRACT
We report here on unpublished records of terrestrial and freshwater molluscs from sites in southern Chiapas (Mexico) held in the National Collection of Molluscs (Colección Nacional de Moluscos). The material was collected at various times between 1988 and 2023. The collections, comprising 342 specimens, include 18 families (14 terrestrial and four freshwater), 34 genera (30 terrestrial and four freshwater), and a total of 54 species and subspecies, of which four are introduced (Melanoides tuberculata (freshwater snail), Allopeas gracile, Opeas hannense and Subulina octona (land snails). The most abundant taxa are Microceramus concisus concisus (47 individuals), Pyrgodomus microdinus microdinus (44 ind.), Glyphyalinia indentata paucilirata (32 ind.), Paralaoma coloba (24 ind.) and Helicina ghiesbreghti (23 ind.). Twenty-three terrestrial species are new records for the state.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank Timothy A. Pearce, María Teresa Olivera, Celia López, Jesús de la Rosa, Edgar Tovar Juárez and Jhoana M. López Díaz as well as the late Oscar J. Polaco and Ana Fabiola Guzmán, for their help during field trips. To S. Helen Ponce Wainer for the English revision of an earlier version of the manuscript, Antony Challenger revised the last version. To two anonymous reviewers which with their comments highly improved the manuscript.
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