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Issue: Vol. 1441 No. 1: 5 Apr. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-04-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.5
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species of Cerithiella (Apogastropoda: Cerithiopsidae) for the continental slope of Pernambuco (northeast Brazil)  

Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Avenida Dom Manuel de Medeiros, S/N, Dois Irmãos, Recife-PE, Brazil.
Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Avenida Dom Manuel de Medeiros, S/N, Dois Irmãos, Recife-PE, Brazil.
Apogastropoda Cerithiella Pernambuco Brazil continental slope new species

Abstract

Two new species of Cerithiella Verrill, 1882 from the continental shelf of Pernambuco are described for northeast Brazil. Cerithiella cepene n. sp. and C. pernambucoensis n. sp. can be distinguished from C. amblytera (Watson, 1880) and C. enodis (Watson, 1880) based on conchological characters. Cerithiella amblytera and C. enodis are recorded for Brazil, but the soft parts are as yet unknown.  

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