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Research Article Open Access
Molluscs of Santa Catarina State/ SC, Central Southern Brazil: increments to
species inventory, new geographical records and additional informations
A. Ignacio Agudo-Padrón
Project “Avulsos Malacológicos – AM,” Caixa Postal (P. O. Box) 010, 88010-970 Centro, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina - SC, Brasil
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International Journal of Aquaculture, 2015, Vol.5, No.2 doi: 10.5376/ija.2015.05.0002
Received: 15 Feb., 2015
Accepted: 10 Mar., 2015
Published: 24 Mar., 2015
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Agudo-Padrón, 2015, Molluscs of Santa Catarina State/ SC, Central Southern Brazil: increments to species inventory, new geographical records and additional
informations, International Journal of Aquaculture, Vol.5, No.2: 1-8 (doi
Abstract
Based in reliable bibliographical technical reports of recent production, most four new gastropod mollusc forms (one
marine - sea slug & three terrestrial) are added and incorporated to the previous systematic malacological inventory of Santa
Catarina’s State/ SC, central southern Brazil region, the giant land snails
Megalobulimus jaguarunensis
Fontenelle, Cavallari &
Simone, 2014,
Megalobulimus abbreviatus
(Bequaert, 1848),
Megalobulimus sanctipauli
(Ihering, 1900) (MEGALOBULIMIDAE)
and the sea slug
Pleurobranchaea inconspicua
Bergh, 1897 (PLEUROBRANCHAEIDAE), raise the state records for 668 marine
species and subspecies regionally known (11 Polyplacophora, 397 Gastropoda, 10 Scaphopoda, 226 Bivalvia, and 24 Cephalopoda)
and for 223 the number of continental forms (193 gastropods – 151 terrestrial, 2 amphibian, 40 freshwater – and 30 limnic bivalves).
Additional taxonomic and inedit regional environmental informations are included, updated for other two sea slug species previously
reported for the State without specific determination, as well as new geographic occurrence records from terrestrial gastropods in
Santa Catarina and in the neighboring State of Rio Grande do Sul/ RS.
Keywords
Geographical records; Marine molluscs; Terrestrial molluscs; Southern Brazil region; Species inventory
Introduction
Giving continuity to the work of regional survey,
again based on extensive literature review and the
examination of samples obtained in the course of
works done in the field,
the present contribution
incorporates the record of further three gastropods
form to
previous systematic inventories of known
marine and terrestrial molluscs of the Santa Catarina’s
State/ SC, geographical central portion of southern
Brazil region, to a new record of 668 marine and 223
continental species and subspecies known regionally
(Agudo-Padrón 2014 a-b, 2015 a), as well as updating
information about of taxonomic and zoogeographical
aspects corresponding to marine and continental
species previously recorded for this State and in the
neighboring State of Rio Grande do Sul/ RS. During
this study most another "cryptic regional work" of
academic nature was also rescued (Zermiani 2014).
The taxonomic arrangement basically accompanies
the proposal based on the monographic contributions
of Thomé et al
.
(2006), for continental forms, and
Garcia et al
.
(2008) & Rios (2009), for marine species.
Additional information about the type material
deposited in museums, known geographic distribution,
corresponding synonyms and other aspects relative to
the related species, can be obtained through the
literature mentioned in the context of this
contribution.
Abbreviations
ANSP – Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia,
USA.
CMOUPF – Malacological Collection of the “Augusto
Ruschi Zoobothanical Museum (MUZAR)”, Passo
Fundo University - UPF, Passo Fundo/ RS.
FURB MO – Malacological Collection of “Regional
University Foundation of Blumenau - FURB”,
Blumenau/ SC.
MCP – Malacological Collection of “Museu de
Ciências e Tecnologia da Pontifícia Universidade
Católica do Rio Grande do Sul” – PUCRS, Porto
Alegre.
MCZ – Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA.
