Hidden in plain sight: two co-occurring cryptic species of Supplanaxis in the Caribbean (Cerithioidea, Planaxidae)

The cerithioid Supplanaxis nucleus (Bruguière, 1789) is widespread in the Caribbean, where it lives in often dense aggregates on hard surfaces in the middle-high intertidal. Molecular evidence shows that it comprises two species that are in fact morphologically diagnosable. We fix th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ellen E. Strong, Philippe Bouchet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-11-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/57521/download/pdf/