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The Genus Cerion (Gastropoda: Cerionidae) In The Florida Keys., Yesha Shrestha, Herman H. Wirshing, M. G. Harasewych
The Genus Cerion (Gastropoda: Cerionidae) In The Florida Keys., Yesha Shrestha, Herman H. Wirshing, M. G. Harasewych
Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications
The systematic relationships and phylogeography of Cerion incanum, the only species of Cerion native to the Florida Keys, are reviewed based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial COI and 16S genes derived from 18 populations spanning the range of this species and including the type localities of all four described subspecies. Our samples included specimens of Cerion casablancae, a species introduced to Indian Key in 1912, and a population of C. incanum x C. casablancae hybrids descended from a population of C. casablancae introduced onto Bahia Honda Key in the same year. Molecular data did not support the partition of …